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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 — - Around 17.1 million people tuned in for Oprah Winfrey's Sunday night interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on CBS, according to preliminary Nielsen data.
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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 — Gayle King used the word “perfection” to describe the royal interview heard round the world Sunday night.
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William Morris / Des Moines Register:
Trial begins for Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri on charges stemming from her coverage of a protest against racial injustice last spring — An Iowa journalist faces trial starting today on charges stemming from her coverage of a protest against racial injustice …
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Teen Vogue staffers air concerns over new EIC hire Alexi McCammond in a letter to Condé Nast management about her past anti-Asian and homophobic tweets — The digital outlet's editorial staffers on Monday said they sent a letter to Condé Nast bosses expressing multiple concerns with their newly hired editor.
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Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Google TV adds support for kids profiles with kid-friendly recommendations, screen-time limits, and parental controls, starting in the US this month — You get fun designs, kid-friendly recommendations, and screen-time limits. — It sure sounds like Google is recommitting to the TV space with Google TV …
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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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George Packer / The Atlantic:
How American women journalists in Vietnam changed the way the war was covered and set a precedent for women reporting on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — In 1966, a young American journalist named Frances FitzGerald began publishing articles from South Vietnam in leading magazines, including this one.
Gabby Miller / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Compass Experiment is splitting up after McClatchy sale; McClatchy, Village Media will separately oversee each of the startups with continued Google funding — An earlier version of this piece was featured in the Tow Center for Digital Journalism's weekly newsletter.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Information launches five newsletters, spanning topics like finance and tech, and formalizes existing newsletters — The Information is launching five new email newsletters beginning Monday, spanning topics around business, finance and tech. — Details: The first two new topic-specific newsletters …
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@sarafischer, Insider and Talking Biz News
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap:
Sony Pictures Entertainment names Ravi Ahuja its Global TV Studios chairman; Ahuja most recently served as President of Walt Disney Television — Sony Pictures Entertainment has named Ravi Ahuja its Global TV Studios chairman. — Ahuja's full title will be chairman of Global Television Studios …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
The Washington Post will let ad buyers reach readers across all sites using its Zeus Prime self-service ad platform starting in Q2 — After spending much of last year building one side of its advertising marketplace, Zeus, the Washington Post is gearing up to open the other.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
RSF survey of 112 journalists in 120 countries: 71% say women journalists are discriminated against due to gender; 58% say discrimination happens in newsrooms — Women journalists endure “twice the danger” of their male colleagues because of the risk of sexist violence both in the field and in their own newsrooms.
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Reuters Institute:
Survey of 240 major news outlets in 12 markets: 24% of the 178 top editors are women, up from 22% in 2020; no major Japanese outlets had women as top editors
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