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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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Carl Hiaasen / Miami Herald:
Veteran Miami Herald writer Carl Hiaasen retires after 45 years with a stark warning about the state of local journalism in the US — Let's get it over with. This is my last column for the Miami Herald. I didn't plan to write about that because there's actual news to be covered …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Front Office Sports is rebranding as FOS, expects to be profitable this year on seven-figure revenue, and has 300K subscribers to its biggest newsletter — Front Office Sports, the sports media company centered around newsletters, expects to be profitable this year on high 7-figures in revenue, its CEO Adam White tells Axios.
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