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Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
BuzzFeed announces layoffs at HuffPost, affecting 47 US employees, three weeks after acquiring the site from Verizon Media; HuffPost Canada will close — BuzzFeed acquired HuffPost from Verizon Media in February. — BuzzFeed announced layoffs for the HuffPost newsroom on Tuesday …
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Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Longtime CBS News political correspondent Roger Mudd dies at 93 — Roger Mudd, a longtime CBS News political correspondent who reported on the Pentagon's profligate spending, whose interview with Edward M. Kennedy ended the senator's White House prospects and who briefly shared the anchor job …
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Piers Morgan to leave ITV's Good Morning Britain after blowback on his comments about Meghan Markle; Ofcom launches probe of the comments after 41K+ complained — Ofcom launches investigation into Monday's episode after receiving more than 40,000 complaints
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Nielsen: 17.1M viewers tuned in for the Oprah interview; CBS reportedly paid Oprah's Harpo Productions a licensing fee of between $7M and $9M for the special
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
During her Meghan and Harry interview, Oprah delivered a master class for journalists on how to use follow-up questions to clarify and nail down the news
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
CNN's Jeff Zucker is joining the board of Group Nine's SPAC — CNN's Jeff Zucker and Technicolor vice chair Melinda “Mindy” Mount have joined the board of directors of Group Nine Acquisition Corp., the blank-check company looking to roll up other digital businesses with Group Nine Media.
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Kerry Flynn / CNN:
Staff in newsrooms owned by billionaires say the owners alleviate pressures of being a part of a publicly traded company or a hedge fund but are “not a panacea” — New York (CNN Business)Not all rich people spend their money on space travel and charities. Some also want to own media companies.
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Benjamin Din / Politico:
Twitter sues Texas AG Ken Paxton in US District Court, arguing the state's investigation into its content moderation practices is retaliation for its Trump ban — Twitter on Monday filed a complaint in U.S. District Court against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, seeking to stop …
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Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters:
Foundation for Independent Journalism, which runs The Wire, an independent news site, challenges new rules in India that regulate content on digital news media — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian non-profit which runs an independent news website on Tuesday challenged in court the country's …
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New York Times:
The publisher of Andrew Cuomo's book on leadership says there are “no plans” to reprint it or issue it in paperback due to the governor's overlapping crises — “American Crisis” was supposed to be a triumphant account of New York's coronavirus fight. But as scandals swirl, sales have slowed severely.
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Elaine Yu / Columbia Journalism Review:
More than two dozen Hong Kong journalists look back on a systematic push from China-backed authorities to tame Hong Kong's press over the past eight months — Journalists look back on eight months of disintegration — In the summer of 2019, Nabela Qoser, a broadcast reporter, became the face of Hong Kong's adversarial press.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Penske Media launches Atlas Data Studio, which builds first-party data segments for advertisers to target ads to different people — Penske Media Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday will launch a new data services devision called “Atlas Data Studio” that focuses on building first-party data segments …
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Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal:
In a privacy policy update, T-Mobile says it will automatically enroll all subscribers in an ad program informed by their online activity, starting on April 26 — Wireless carrier tells subscribers it could share their browsing, app data and other online activity with advertisers unless they opt out
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
A roundup of 12 publishers' diversity reports, including Condé Nast, Gannett, Hearst, BuzzFeed, LAT, Vice, NYT, and WaPo — Publishers' employee bases continue to be largely white. That assertion should surprise precisely no one, but a roundup of 12 publishers' diversity profiles …
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