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Casey Newton / Platformer:

Interviews with 14 current and former Medium employees portray a dysfunctional company; sources say Medium has 700K paid subs, suggesting $35M+ in revenue — I. — Last week, a partnerships manager at Medium working with the White House found that there was a strange problem with the platform …

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Will Oremus / @willoremus:
[Thread] Will Oremus, who has covered platforms, online speech, and tech policy for OneZero, is accepting a buyout from Medium

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Substack Blog:

Substack offers further clarity on its content moderation guidelines, detailing its stance on harassment, doxxing, hate, and more — In December, we published a statement about our philosophy on content moderation. In the time since, content moderation policies across all platforms have become only more consequential and debated.

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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:

Substack is only a “scam” in the same way that modern media is, where star pundits profit and talented reporters go underemployed — If you aren't sufficiently broken inside to be an extremely-online journalist — or, worse, a non-journalist who diligently monitors the beefs within …

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Eric Lutz / Vanity Fair:

CNN's defense of Chris Cuomo getting priority COVID testing again indicates that CNN seems to have no ethical issue with the relationship between the Cuomos — Chris Cuomo never missed an opportunity to tell his “luv guv” big brother what a great job he was doing.

Discussion: Albany Times Union, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Post, Talking Points Memo, @claytravis, Reason, @richlowry, The Federalist, scheerpost.com, Insider, NPR, TVNewser and The Wrap

News Corp:

News Corp acquires Investor's Business Daily for $275M; the financial news and research business has ~100K subscribers and will be operated by Dow Jones — Digitally-Focused Financial News, Tools and Research Business To Be Operated By News Corp's Dow Jones Division

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J. Clara Chan / The Wrap:

The Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune had a $50M drop in revenue in 2020, according to the president of the newspapers' parent company — The Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune lost “north of $50 million” in revenue in 2020, company leadership told staffers at an all-hands meeting on Thursday.

Discussion: The Hill, The Wrap and @sharonwaxman

Katie Robertson / New York Times:

The New Republic names Michael Tomasky as its top editor and is moving back to Washington, DC from New York — The New Republic named a new editor on Thursday and announced that it was moving back to Washington, its home city for most of its 107-year existence.

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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:

The Kevin Roose column in NYT that was auctioned as an NFT has sold for around $560,000, with proceeds going to NYT's Neediest Cases Fund — How much is an NFT of an article in The Paper of Record worth? — SHARE All sharing options — The New York Times has entered the NFT game …

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Miles Parks / NPR:

Misleading articles linking vaccines and death are among the most popular vaccine stories online as multiple outlets write about the same small number of deaths — The odds of dying after getting a COVID-19 vaccine are virtually nonexistent. — According to recent data from the Centers …

Discussion: Gizmodo, Fast Company, @nprpolitics, @cward1e, @drgarybennett and Washington Post

Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:

PrendeTV, Univision's Spanish-language, ad-supported streaming service is launching March 29 with 35 channels and 30K hours of content — Univision Communications held a virtual upfront-like advertising event on Wednesday, touting its new streaming service PrendeTV and promoting growing content investments and global pursuits.

Discussion: Ad Age, Beet.TV and The Streamable

Katherine Jacobsen / Committee to Protect Journalists:

Q&A with The Markup's Nabiha Syed on the upcoming SCOTUS decision on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which affects data journalists who scrape websites — At first glance, the connection between data journalism and a Georgia police officer accused of accessing a government database for an improper purpose might seem tenuous.

Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:

ViacomCBS buys exclusive US rights to Italy's Serie A soccer championship, and Paramount+ will air 400 games live each season through 2024 — The three-year deal will see 400 top flight games in Italy, including those with Cristiano Ronaldo and Juventus, air or stream each year through 2024.

Discussion: Light Reading, The Streamable, CBS Chicago and Cord Cutters News

Alex Shephard / New Republic:

This week's coverage of the border lacks proper context, ignores the humans at the heart of it, and injects conflict into a relatively drama-free administration — On Sunday, ABC's This Week sent its weekly roundtable—excuse me, its Powerhouse Roundtable—on a field trip to the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Politico Playbook criticized for an item that cast Trump's administration as having been more transparent than Biden's on migrant detention at the border

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Fox partners with Comcast's Freewheel, which specializes in digital ads, to offer addressable ads on Fox content viewed on Comcast properties like Xfinity

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Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:
A look at Remember the Internet, a series of pocket-sized books dedicated to immortalizing subcultures and combating the ephemerality of being online

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