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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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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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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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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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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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The Verge, Jefferson Graham's newsletter, @awallenstein, @newsynick, @lucas_shaw and @lucas_shaw, more at Techmeme »
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Roku has hired several former Quibi executives as it prepares to roll out content from Quibi's library of 75+ shows to The Roku Channel — Former Quibi senior content executives Colin Davis and Brian Tannenbaum are among those who have joined Roku. — Two months after acquiring the Quibi library …
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Pat Leahy / The Irish Times:
Ex-Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has resigned from Ireland's Commission on the Future of the Media, amid row over alleged IRA-supporting columnist Greenslade — Alan Rusbridger had come under pressure over Roy Greenslade article about Máiría Cahill — about 5 hours ago Updated: about 4 hours ago
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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.
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
As House holds hearing on tech and news, Microsoft accuses Google of making publishers depend on it and Google claims Microsoft just wants to undercut a rival — - Microsoft and Google sparred over their practices and treatment of news outlets in a battle between antitrust targets of past and present.
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
McKinsey report: Hollywood is leaving $10B/year on the table by ignoring racial inequities in film and TV and should set concrete goals to increase diversity — A McKinsey report that combined previous research and new interviews argues that concrete steps like company bonuses tied to improved representation can lead to change.
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Archie Bland / The Guardian:
Sources: UK's Society of Editors will postpone the National Press Awards after outlets withdrew from the awards in protest of SoE's claim media wasn't racist — Exclusive: decision follows resignation of executive director over statement denying racism in press
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The Guardian, @fedoraabu, @shirishmm, @_kayayem, @jeffjarvis, @prasanto, @thedalstonyears and Media Trends and Insights
Todd Spangler / Variety:
A SPAC led by ex-Disney execs Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, Forest Road Acquisition Corp. II, raised $350M in an IPO to focus on tech, media, telecoms companies — A special-purpose acquisition corporation targeting tech, media and telecom firms led by two former senior Disney execs …
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