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Kerry Flynn / CNN:
New York Times admits workplace issues, particularly around the treatment of Black and Latino employees, in a new report following an eight-month investigation — New York (CNN Business)The New York Times (NYT) is admitting its own workplace issues, particularly around the treatment of Black …
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Nick Clegg / About Facebook:
Facebook defends its stance in Australia, says it invested $600M since 2018 to support the news industry and plans at least $1B more over the next three years — Last week, in a move that will have felt abrupt and dramatic to many, Facebook announced it was stopping the sharing of news on its service in Australia.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Facebook's Australia news ban shows tech giants don't mind giving up money to appease regulators and business, but will not give up control over platforms — [Warning: Violent and gruesome metaphor ahead.] — In The Usual Suspects (1995), there's a scene in which the true extent …
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Australia says Facebook agreed to reinstate news content in Australia in the coming days after the government promised amendments to its proposed media bill
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Washington Post led all news organizations at the Polk Awards with four prizes; half of all Polk Awards were for reporting related to the pandemic — The Washington Post led all news organizations, with four prizes. The infectious-disease reporter Helen Branswell, of Stat …
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Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Sources: the founder of Acronym, which backs Courier Newsroom, wants to raise $65M to push progressive local news and match the dominance of conservative media — It's called the Project for Good Information, and it raises big questions about the future of the information wars.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Institute for Nonprofit News says it helped convert five newsrooms to non-profit status last year and membership grew 28% to 309 non-profit journalism groups — The trend is continuing into 2021.
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Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal:
Fandom, a site about games, movies, and TV shows, buys UK-based Focus, owner of Fanatical; sources say Fandom is profitable and expects $200M in revenue in 2021 — Entertainment company seeks direct sales to consumers and better appeal to marketers — Fandom Inc., an entertainment company focusing …
Rebecca Davis / Variety:
China issues new regulations requiring bloggers, influencers, and creators to possess a government-issued credential to publish anything on a host of topics — China has this week imposed its tightest restrictions to date on the publication of original content online via short video and …
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Hirsh Chitkara / Protocol:
Inside Chess.com's streaming success, with Twitch users watching 18.3M hours of chess content in January, nearly as much as they consumed throughout all of 2019 — There's something inherently perverse in calling chess “open source.” It's a bit like saying France “pivoted” …
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New York Magazine:
First Look Media says it didn't fire Laura Poitras but chose not to renew her contract because she had been “inactive” for 2+ years, amid a fight about layoffs — When Laura Poitras co-founded First Look Media with Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill in 2013, the venture had immediate prestige …
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Sinclair Broadcast Group reports Q4: revenue down 7% YoY to $1.5B, net income of $514M, and political ad revenue grew to $205M, up from $23M in Q4 2019 — Sinclair Broadcast Group is another major TV station company hit with weakening core advertising in the last months of 2020 …
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Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the small-town Skagway News in Alaska, after its owner gifted it to two teachers in early 2020 and the pandemic slammed its tourist town — They won the Alaska newspaper giveaway. Then the pandemic arrived. — In 2019, Larry Persily, owner of the Skagway News …
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