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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Report: Fortune employees are staging a day-long strike to protest performance targets like byline counts and traffic goals and to push for diversity measures — Staffers at Fortune are staging a day-long work stoppage on Tuesday, reports Steven Perlberg of Insider.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook will begin testing its publishing platform, including website and newsletter tools, with a small group of writers, some of whom will be paid — Facebook will soon begin testing partnerships with a small group of independent writers for its new publishing platform, sources tell Axios.
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News Corp:
News Corp says it has reached a three-year deal with Facebook to provide news to Facebook users in Australia through the Facebook News product — Expands News Corp-Facebook Connection, Which Began With Deal In US — New York, NY (March 15, 2021) - News Corp announced today that it has reached …
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Financial Times:
Sources: Tencent and ByteDance are testing a new tool called CAID, developed by the China Advertising Association, to bypass Apple's IDFA ad privacy changes — ByteDance and Tencent see if they can keep tracking iPhone users with solution created by state-backed group
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, @sub8u, MacRumors, @financialtimes and No IDFA? No Problem, more at Techmeme »
Archie Bland / The Guardian:
UK columnist Julie Burchill apologizes to journalist Ash Sarkar and will pay damages after accusing her of being an Islamist, worshipping a pedophile, and more — Columnist apologises to journalist, saying social media posts included ‘racist and misogynist’ comments
Sara Rimer / BU Today:
BU and Boston Globe Opinion to launch The Emancipator, an antiracist multimedia project, this summer, with op-eds, debates, and more by journalists and scholars — Website will use research, opinion essays, and data to write about racial justice, from academics, journalists, authors, and students
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Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS broadcast of Grammys drew 7.89M viewers, less than half the audience from 2020, joining Golden Globes and other shows in suffering steep declines this year — Like many other recent awards shows, Sunday's telecast was way down from 2020. — The Grammy Awards joined a host …
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Archie Bland / The Guardian:
Sources say staff are “alarmed and dismayed” after Daily Telegraph editor emailed staff of plans to link elements of journalists' pay to articles' popularity — Guardian has seen email revealing plan, which is said to have dismayed staff who fear it will warp priorities
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Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter:
In response to a letter from PR firms, HFPA issued a statement promising to increase its membership to over 100, 13% of which will be Black, among other changes — “We should have done more, and sooner,” the statement acknowledges. — In response to a Monday letter from more than 100 PR firms demanding …
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Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap:
In a letter to HFPA, over 100 Hollywood PR firms say they will pull their clients from HFPA events or interviews pending the org's “explicit plans” for change
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Hollywood Reporter, Variety, @thewrap, @sharonwaxman, @yashar, The Grapevine, news.com.au, Screen, The Wrap, Deadline and IndieWire
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
New Yorker debuts monthly virtual event series for subscribers featuring conversations with prominent figures, signaling long-term commitment to virtual events — The monthly series comes on the heels of last fall's successful New Yorker Festival
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Leah Nylen / Politico:
2012 FTC memos concluded that targeted ads don't and wouldn't make up a significant share of online advertising and users were unlikely to allow cookie tracking — A decade ago, a surging Silicon Valley giant was making plans to dominate the internet. Given a chance to stop it …
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@robpegoraro, @zhizhuweb and @jason_kint, more at Techmeme »
Bloomberg:
French data protection watchdog says it is investigating Apple after a complaint by lobbying group France Digitale about Apple's personalized ad features — - CNIL confirmed it's examining a complaint by France Digitale — Apple has denied its advertising system breaks privacy rules
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AppleInsider, MacRumors and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Matthew Leake / Reuters Institute:
A look at Japan's news media landscape, which has been slow to embrace digital transformation, as print circulation and a culture of conservatism still dominate — Japanese journalist Daisuke Furuta outlines what's preventing journalism in his home country from embracing digital transformation
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