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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
WaPo, NYT, and NBC News issue significant corrections, retracting earlier reporting that said Giuliani and OAN had been warned by the FBI about Russian disinfo — New York (CNN Business)The Washington Post, The New York Times, and NBC News on Saturday issued significant corrections …
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Bente Birkeland / Colorado Public Radio:
Newsmax settles with a Dominion Voting Systems staffer after airing false claims of voting machine manipulation, issuing an apology; the staffer dropped suit — The far-right media outlet Newsmax, which amplified former President Trump's false allegations of election rigging and widespread voter fraud …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Verizon is nearing a deal to sell its media division, including AOL and Yahoo!, to Apollo; deal could be worth ~$5B and be announced as soon as Monday — - Deal for Verizon Media could be announced as soon as Monday — Division includes online brands Yahoo!, AOL and TechCrunch
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Twitter to launch ad campaign to promote local journalism, starting with 28 full-page ads in local papers across the Gannett/USA Today and McClatchy networks — Twitter on Monday will launch a major advertising and social media campaign urging people to follow local journalists and support their work.
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Roku has removed YouTube TV from its channel store after Roku and Google failed to come to a distribution agreement; existing users will continue to have access — If you've already got the app, be careful not to delete it — Roku has pulled YouTube TV from its channel store.
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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
EU charges Apple with antitrust violations, alleging it squeezed rival music streaming apps by requiring them to use Apple's in-app payments system — EU accuses Apple of forcing many apps to use its in-app payment system on which it takes commissions, saying it ‘distorted competition’ in music streaming
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Joel Simon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Of the 60+ journalists CPJ and RSF helped evacuate from Daraa, Syria, only ~6 remain in journalism, including 4 who started Spain's first refugee-run news site — Two years after fleeing their homes in Syra and resettling in Spain, four exiled journalists recently launched the country's …
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@joelcpj, @pressfreedom and @cpjmena
Rachel Del Valle / Nieman Lab:
A look at the Mountain West News Bureau, a consortium of NPR stations in seven states, whose six embedded reporters collaborate with local stations and papers — Last summer, I drove cross country. I found that in parts of the Mountain West — Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Montana, Colorado …
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Dorany Pineda / Los Angeles Times:
Joshua Wolf Shenk resigns as EIC of The Believer magazine and from Black Mountain Institute posts, saying he made a dumb choice about attire for a Zoom meeting — Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of the books “Lincoln's Melancholy” and “Powers of Two,” has resigned from his positions as editor …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK publishers and broadcasters, including Sun, Guardian, and Sky Sports, join four-day social media boycott led by English football to protest online racism — Publishers joining the social media boycott led by English football to protest racist abuse and discrimination online include The Sun …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Source: Stewart Bainum offers to double his stake to $200M in a bid for Tribune and would tap $100M in debt financing; he seeks a partner to buy Chicago paper — - Stewart Bainum offers to include $200 million of his own money — Bid partner Hansjoerg Wyss dropped out of an earlier proposal
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
In Australia, 20+ News Corp regional newspaper sites have been merged with city papers, putting local papers' content behind a paywall on the metro paper's site — Local websites absorbed by the Daily Telegraph and Courier-Mail in what it calls ‘world-class, hyperlocal news technology’
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