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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Inside a power struggle at WSJ between editor Matt Murray and the publisher Almar Latour over how the paper should remake itself to attract new digital readers — A special team led by a high-level manager says Rupert Murdoch's paper must evolve to survive. But a rivalry between editor and publisher stands in the way.
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Print circulations of WSJ and USA Today fell 19% and 60% respectively from Q1 2020 to Q2/Q3 as hotels closed, accounting for the majority of the decline — USA Today lost more than half of its print sales as US newspaper circulations were hit by the Covid-19 crisis last year, Press Gazette research has found.
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@nbj914 and @ryanvailbrown
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen says the pandemic shrunk the size of its TV consumer panel, but it defends its viewership data and says streaming's rise doesn't offset linear TV's fall — The media industry's go-to authority for measuring audiences acknowledged on Friday that the recent coronavirus pandemic bent its yardstick …
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Columbia Journalism Review, Variety, Sports Media Watch, @arianapekary, @jayrosen_nyu, @bristei, Adweek, nielsen.com, MediaPost, @bristei and @loudmouthjulia
Dylan Byers / NBC News:
Sources: Kimberly Godwin, executive vice president of CBS News, is in final negotiations with Disney to become head of ABC News — Disney has found the next president of ABC News. — Kimberly Godwin, the executive vice president of CBS News, is in the final stages of negotiations with Disney …
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@iamamnanawaz, @tiareports, @jasminestylestv, @franklinleonard, The Desk, @dylanbyers, FTVLive, Variety, TVNewser and The Hill
The Markup:
YouTube blocks advertisers from using terms like “Black Lives Matter” to find videos to advertise against but was letting them use phrases like “White power” — “Black power” and “Black Lives Matter” can't be used to find videos for ads, but “White power” and “White lives matter” were just fine
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
In a letter to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, the head of the Anti-Defamation League called on her to fire Tucker Carlson for invoking “white replacement theory” — New York (CNN Business)The Anti-Defamation League is calling for Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson.
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Kathimerini:
Greek veteran crime reporter Giorgos Karaivaz was shot and killed near Athens in what appears to have been a planned ambush — A television reporter was gunned down outside his home in the southern Athens suburb of Alimos on Friday. — According to preliminary reports, Giorgos Karaivaz …
Richard J. Tofel / Second Rough Draft:
The potential rescuers of individual Tribune newspapers should stop printing the papers and go all digital, right away, to cut major costs of standalone outlets — Among the very bad things that have happened to local newspapers over the last 16 years, likely the worst has been the slide of so many into the hands of hedge funds.
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Alan C. Miller / Poynter:
An interview with Emily Ramshaw, co-founder and CEO of The 19th, after the outlet's first year: it has ~10K subscribers and a 2021 budget 50% higher than 2020's — The news outlet, devoted to covering politics and policy through a gender lens, launched in the pandemic and has rocketed onto the national stage.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @newslitproject, @alanmillernlp, @newslitproject and American Press Institute
Johnny Diaz / New York Times:
A look at Telemundo's Club Mundo Kids, a new Spanish-language show for kids that comes amid a wider push to reach Latino audiences — “Club Mundo Kids,” a new TV series debuting on April 10, is the latest result of a push for programming that uses Spanish to reach Latino audiences.
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@itsdavidford, @fbiannunez, @exilecontent, @uscannenberg, @xtinatini and @richlightshed
Peter White / Deadline:
A feature documentary about examining the evolution of American journalism from Dan Rather's perspective is in the works — EXCLUSIVE: A feature documentary about legendary media figure Dan Rather is in the works. — Original Productions, the Fremantle-owned producer of shows such as Deadliest Catch …
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@wavelengthprods and C21Media
Timothy Garton Ash / The Guardian:
A look at anti-press policies in Poland, including a proposal targeting foreign media owners, ending public sector advertising in independent media, and more — A planned ‘coronavirus tax’ on revenues and attacks on foreign-owned media threaten to cut away democracy piece by piece
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@fergallenehan, @ecfr, @torynski, @jayrosen_nyu, @kenroth, @markhennessy, @bdstanley and @fromtga
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