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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Sources: Stewart Bainum weighs bidding for all of Tribune Publishing, after his deal to buy The Baltimore Sun from soon-to-be owner Alden hits obstacles — A Maryland hotel magnate who had a deal to buy The Baltimore Sun is now weighing a bid for all of Tribune's newspapers that could thwart a hedge fund's plan.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Online harassment of female journalists, especially those who cover technology, is deeply destabilizing and increasingly hard to endure — Julia Carrie Wong remembers a time, years ago, when she felt that being a part of digital culture was fun. — “I used to really enjoy online spaces …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
As Piers Morgan weighs options for his next job, British TV execs like GB News' Andrew Neil see a big opportunity in producing more American-style cable clashes — British TV executives see opportunity — and money to be made — in bringing American cable-style clashes to their screens.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Liz Maynes-Aminzade, head of The New Yorker's Puzzles & Games Dept., on popular crossword puzzles and how games fit into subscription strategy — “If you're looking at a metric like unique visitors, the audience for the crossword is not colossal.
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Gideon Lichfield / @glichfield:
[Thread] A look at Facebook's PR tactics to push back against unflattering stories, including trying to overwhelm editors with lists of supposed factual errors — With all the pushback from Facebook against @_KarenHao's recent story, and as one of the editors on the piece, I thought it worth making some observations on the PR strategy Facebook has adopted in response. Other journalists may find this useful. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
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Jake Coyle / Associated Press:
Netflix leads 93rd Academy Awards with 10 nominations for Mank; for the first time, two women, Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell, were nominated for best director — NEW YORK (AP) — David Fincher's “Mank” has led nominations to the 93rd Academy Awards with 10 nods, and for the first time …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Fox's free streaming service Tubi is planning to start funding original movies and TV shows; Roku and Pluto TV are also exploring original programming — Free streaming services increase their ambitions after growing like weeds during pandemic — Fox Corp.'s free streaming service Tubi …
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Nadine White / The Independent:
A look at Black media creatives in the UK, who are building their own platforms that cater to Black Britons and challenging the UK press' race problem — Nadine White meets the Black media creatives challenging the status quo and building their own platforms
New Yorker:
The New Yorker launches The New Yorker Live, a subscriber-only event series featuring conversations and audience Q&As — A new event series, only for subscribers. — The New Yorker has announced the first guests for The New Yorker Live, a new event series featuring conversations …
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
ITV says it will remove images of Daily Mail headlines from Harry and Meghan interview, following a demand from Associated Newspapers; CBS refuses to comment — Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers has demanded that CBS remove a “misleading montage” of newspaper headlines from its ‘Oprah with Meghan and Harry’ broadcast.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
FT CEO says digital ad revenues grew by 30% in 2020 to overtake print in Q4 and outlets can “have your cake and eat it” by using both ads and subscriptions — Financial Times chief executive John Ridding has said news publishers “can have your cake and eat it” but only if they have a “robust reader revenue foundation”.
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Survey of 1,500 PBS viewers: their political leanings span from extremely liberal to extremely conservative, and 50%+ rank PBS as neutral in terms of news bias — This piece is adapted from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism's weekly newsletter. — In February, M&RR, a marketing research firm …
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Leia Idliby / Mediaite:
John Oliver dedicated an episode of Last Week Tonight to call out Tucker Carlson as “the most prominent vessel in America for white supremacist talking points” — It's no secret that John Oliver has a habit of calling out Tucker Carlson, often calling him “racist,” …
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