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Hussman Faculty / Medium:
About 40 members of UNC's journalism school faculty sign a letter demanding tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism — As Hussman School of Journalism and Media faculty, we are stunned at the failure to award tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones …
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Over 100 journalism faculty from across the US protest UNC's declining of tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones, calling the move “blatant partisanship and racism” — We, the undersigned journalism faculty from across the United States, write to protest the action of the University …
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@nhannahjones, @ruthesamuel, @sivavaid, @jeffjarvis, @johnrobinson, @jayrosen_nyu, @sistertoldjah and @billadairduke
NC Policy Watch:
UNC backs down from offering Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure, instead offering a fixed five-year contract, after conservatives object to her work on The 1619 Project
UNC backs down from offering Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure, instead offering a fixed five-year contract, after conservatives object to her work on The 1619 Project
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Alice Yin / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago mayor said she would talk only to reporters of color on one day to confront lack of newsroom diversity; NABJ says it can't support excluding journalists — Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday defended her decision to grant interviews on her two-year anniversary in office only to journalists of color …
The Verge:
Twitter relaunches its public verification program, with revamped categories that include activists and journalists; applications will be reviewed by humans — It also previewed potential changes coming to profiles — Twitter is relaunching its public verification program, allowing anyone to apply for a coveted blue check mark.
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Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite:
Report: James Murdoch is behind a “whisper campaign” to undermine Lachlan at Fox; Lachlan has been defending Tucker Carlson and calls Fox News “center-right” — James Murdoch, the one-time would-be heir to the Rupert Murdoch media empire and brother to current Fox CEO Lachlan …
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Insider, @oliverdarcy, @jeremymbarr, @eliza_relman, The Wrap, @jeremymbarr, @oliverdarcy, @justinbaragona, @davidmackau, @claireatki and Media Matters for America
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Axios plans to launch local newsletters in eight more cities by the end of 2021, with a goal of expanding to 50 total by the end of 2022 — In the past quarter-century of the media industry's transition from the printed page to the digital space, there's been no category more vexing than local news.
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Editor and Publisher, @ssavitsky, @seangriffey, @ted_williams, @ted_williams, @ssavitsky, @ted_williams and @ted_williams
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
A group of 108 Hollywood film producers announces its intention to form the Producers Union, a first for the profession, looking for better conditions and pay — A group of 108 Hollywood feature film producers announced Thursday that they intend to form a new Producers' Union to organize …
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Raleigh News & Observer:
Two USA Today Network journalists were arrested in NC while covering a protest of the lack of criminal charges in the death of Andrew Brown Jr., then released — Several people, 2 journalists arrested in Elizabeth City during Andrew Brown protests — Several people were arrested …
Amanda Ripley / The Atlantic:
While local TV news is trusted more than any other medium, popularity is waning; E.W. Scripps is one broadcaster trying out different story topics and lengths — One morning a few years ago, Amanda Patten, 26, invited five strangers into her home in Cincinnati. She cleared the toys off of the couch and offered everyone a seat.
Lucy McNulty / MarketWatch:
LSE, which bought data provider Refinitiv from Reuters in 2018, says Reuters' paywall breaches deal terms; Refinitiv has a $325M/year deal for news from Reuters — A rift between the London Stock Exchange Group and Reuters has opened up over the media company's plans for a new paywall …
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Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:
Spotify partners with Audible rival Storytel, allowing the latter's subscribers to listen to books on Spotify; Storytel has 500K titles and 1.6M subscribers — Swedish audiobook streaming group Storytel (STORYb.ST) has partnered with Spotify (SPOT.N) to allow its subscribers to listen …
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Spotify, TechCrunch and Storytel
Brian Lowry / CNN:
CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox will debut just a dozen new series in total this fall as crime procedurals dominate; NBC and Fox's lineups won't have any sitcoms — Paula Newsome as Maxine Roby, Jorja Fox as Sara Sidle, Matt Lauria as Joshua Folsom, and Jay Lee in ‘CSI: Vegas’ (Sonja Flemming/CBS)
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