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The Daily Beast:
Teen Vogue's new EIC Alexi McCammond, who was meant to start in the coming days, will no longer be joining the publication — The Condé-owned outlet's new editor has exited the job just days before she was set to take on the gig. … Just days before she was set to begin the job …
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Annalee Newitz / The Hypothesis:
Substack's decision to pay some to write on the platform is an editorial one as it chooses what writing to support; its secrecy is a breach of journalism ethics — I think of myself as having decent critical faculties, but somehow I got suckered again by a bog-standard publishing venture masquerading as a useful communications tool.
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Substack has lost several writers who say they are concerned about editorial impartiality and whether the service is paying transphobic writers — The program strains its claim to editorial impartiality
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Manori Ravindran / Variety:
BBC unveils a six-year, £700M plan to expand operations outside of London including relocation of 400 positions and creation of 200-300 local journalism roles — The BBC has unveiled a six-year plan that will see the corporation expand key services outside of London and further afield …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Media must stop taking official pronouncements at face value, using phrases like “police said” as shorthand for truth, and train staff to show less credulity — It's inevitable that reporters will have to rely heavily on law enforcement sources in the first hours after a horrific crime.
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Spotify launches a site to show how much it pays artists: $5B in 2020, up from $3.3B in 2017, and 13K artists made $50K+ in royalties, up 80% from 2017 — The company's making an effort to be more transparent — Musicians aren't thrilled with Spotify — they say the streaming platform undervalues …
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Lance Venta / RadioInsight:
Westwood One fills Rush Limbaugh's former slot with the Dan Bongino Show in major markets like NYC, DC, LA, SF, Chicago, and Dallas — Update 7:30pm: As we first reported this morning (see below), Cumulus Media and Westwood One have announced that Dan Bongino will move to a live 12-3pm eastern timeslot.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBCU says it will seek primetime TV rates for ads that run on Peacock as viewers can now stream primetime shows at the times of their choosing — The priciest stuff on TV for advertisers always runs in primetime. When viewers can stream “This Is Us” or “Young Rock” at moments of their own choosing, however, primetime is anytime.
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Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
YouTube is rolling out its TikTok rival YouTube Shorts in the US, but the beta is missing features and feels half-baked — Rolling out to everyone in the US ‘over the next several weeks’ — YouTube Shorts, the company's short-form answer to TikTok, is launching in beta in the United States starting today.
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Sam Thielman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Adbusters, a magazine of catchy font design that is synonymous with the early-2000s political left and the birthplace of Occupy Wall Street activism — On November 15, 2011, just outside a boarded-up vacant lot in Lower Manhattan, several NYPD officers held down a protester …
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Megan Graham / CNBC:
Amazon will present at IAB's NewFronts for the first time this spring after canceling its debut last year due to COVID-19 — - Amazon will join companies like Google's YouTube, Twitter and Snap as they present to advertisers at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's NewFronts.
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New York Post, @sameepa and @megancgraham
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
NPR's Embedded has made a four-part series on the Capital Gazette, telling the story of the trauma of a shooting against the backdrop of journalism's job cuts — On June 28, 2018, a gunman stormed the newsroom of the Capital Gazette, in Annapolis, Maryland, and murdered five staffers …
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