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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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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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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 — Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General, speaks during a panel discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference held in Orlando, Fla. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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