Top News:
![](/210413/i9.jpg)
Sources: CBS News President Susan Zirinsky is nearing a deal to step down from the role and sign a wide-ranging production partnership with ViacomCBS — Longtime CBS News producer expected to sign production partnership with parent ViacomCBS — CBS News President Susan Zirinsky is nearing …
Discussion:
Variety, The Hill, Mediaite, The Wrap, @bristei, New York Post, @davidclinchnews and @dylanbyers
![](/210413/i4.jpg)
Facebook Oversight Board will now accept appeals to remove content from Facebook and Instagram; previously, users were only able to appeal to restore content — From today, users will be able to appeal content to the Oversight Board which they want removed from Facebook and Instagram.
Discussion:
About Facebook, @oversightboard, @guyro, @emilybell, TechCrunch, @skollfoundation, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Mashable, Adweek, @klonick, @guyro, @guyro, @vivian, Axios, The Verge, @christianna_j, @guyro, Bloomberg, @chinmayiarun, @foxcahn, @guyro, @savasavasava, @guyro, @flexlibris and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
![](/210413/i8.jpg)
Over 650 tech workers at the NYT announce they have formed a union to be represented by the NewsGuild of New York and are seeking union recognition from the NYT — Tech workers at The New York Times announced on Tuesday that they had formed a union and would ask the company to recognize it.
![](/210413/i17.jpg)
Air Mail, former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's media venture, expects to employ 40 people by year's end, up from 30 now, and has added an e-commerce shop — Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter's new media venture, Air Mail, expects to employ 40 people by year's end …
Discussion:
@rickgamesnow, @airmailweekly, @niemanlab, @simonowens and @sarafischer
![](/210413/i11.jpg)
Contextual adtech company GumGum raises $75M, sources say at a ~$700M valuation, almost tripling from last funding round, as Google and Apple limit targeted ads — The adtech company focuses on contextual advertising, as opposed to ads that target people based on identifiable information
Discussion:
@hlmorgan and @digitalshields, more at Techmeme »
![](/210413/i18.jpg)
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai writes to his Apple Daily staff ahead of his sentencing for participating in a protest: “Freedom of speech is a dangerous job” — Media mogul writes from prison that ‘freedom of speech is a dangerous job’ but journalists must uphold justice
Discussion:
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
![](/210412/i14.jpg)
Reuters News names Alessandra Galloni as its next EIC, starting April 19; she will be the first woman to lead the news agency — (Reuters) -Reuters News is set to name one of its top editors, Alessandra Galloni, as its next editor-in-chief, the first woman to lead the globe-spanning news agency in its 170-year history.
![](/210413/i13.jpg)
Unlike national and international outlets, some local Minnesota news outlets were not let in to a police press conference after the shooting of Daunte Wright — Reporters from multiple local organizations were denied entry to a news conference on Monday about the shooting of Daunte Wright …
Discussion:
Columbia Journalism Review, Star Tribune, The Hill, Discourse Blog, Washington Post and @andrewmannix
![](/210413/i7.jpg)
Spotify announces Car Thing, a Spotify-only, voice-controlled device for the car, launching today for free for select US users — It's free, but users have to pay for shipping — Spotify's first gadget has landed. Car Thing, a Spotify-only, voice-controlled device for the car …
![](/210413/i12.jpg)
Disney, Viacom, and 10 ad tech companies agree to remove or disable software from children's apps that could target children with ads, resolving three lawsuits — In legal settlements that could reshape the children's app market, Disney, Viacom and 10 advertising technology firms have agreed …
![](/210413/i14.jpg)
A look at the damage already done to Tribune's nine metro papers: since Alden acquired a 32% share, NewsGuild says staff fell 30.4% in one year — Employees and local readers are concerned that Alden would make deep cuts to Tribune if it bought the company. But it seems that's already happening.
Discussion:
@raju, @toddlighty and @courantguild
![](/210413/i15.jpg)
Ad agency Dentsu says it has developed a tool to consolidate audience-based buys across TV networks via a single source of viewership data provided by VideoAmp — Traditional TV's adoption of digital's audience-based ad targeting is underway, but it remains ensnared by a lack of standardization.
Discussion:
@dentsuusa, Business Wire and AgencySpy