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9:25 AM ET, May 20, 2021

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Hussman Faculty / Medium:
About 30 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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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  —  Journalism school will instead offer Nikole Hannah-Jones a fixed five-year contract  —  In her career in journalism …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Talking Biz News
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.
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 …
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.
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
WarnerMedia says HBO Max's cheaper, ad-supported tier will cost $10 per month and launch in the first week of June  —  HBO Max, so far, had a single subscription price at $15 a month. … HBO Max's cheaper, ad-supported tier will cost $10 a month and launch in the first week of June, WarnerMedia said Wednesday.
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)
Discussion: The Wrap and MediaPost
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
AT&T and Verizon conflated controlling distribution with controlling demand and hence wasted billions by buying media businesses like Time Warner and Yahoo  —  Felix Salmon asked a question on Twitter:  —  While Salmon's question was driven by the news that AT&T would spin out WarnerMedia …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Profile of David Zaslav, one of the highest-paid US corporate CEOs, who spent 14 years building Discovery into the preeminent player in unscripted programming
 
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Right-wing video platform Rumble says it has raised an undisclosed amount from Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, and others; sources say Rumble is valued at ~$500M
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Marketers release data after Apple ATT ad tracking change: Android spending is up ~21%, iOS spending drops ~3%; 63.5% to 83.2% of iOS users opt out of tracking
Max Willens / Digiday:
Vice says its titles now produce more Stories-style content every month than text or horizontal video content, helped by an in-house Stories Studio app
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google is testing a “Follow” button in Chrome for sites that support RSS, with content appearing in the New Tab page, initially with Chrome Canary users
Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge:
Zoom announces Zoom Events, building on paid event marketplace OnZoom, letting companies host live events, sell tickets, track stats, and more
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google says Android TV OS, which includes Google TV, now reaches over 80M monthly active devices, with 80% YoY growth in the US
Discussion: MediaPost and 9to5Google