Mediagazer: Kuaishou, ByteDance's main rival, reports Q1 revenue of $2.65B, up 37% YoY, and a net loss of $8.9B, as it delved deeper into online commerce and advertising (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

10:05 AM ET, May 24, 2021

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Nexta Telegram channel founder Roman Protasevich arrested as Belarus, under orders from Lukashenko, sends fighter jet and forces Ryanair flight to land in Minsk — The dissident, Roman Protasevich, co-founded a Telegram channel that is a popular opposition outlet in Belarus.

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Ben Smith / New York Times:

Tension is rising at WNYC amid HR complaints about bullying and a formal complaint to the NLRB about an alleged campaign by the EIC against her internal critics — In public radio, there is either an epidemic of bullying or an epidemic of whining, depending on whom you ask.

New York Times:

Sources: in October 2016, shortly before the AT&T-Time Warner acquisition, Disney's Bob Iger called Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes about a possible deal — What if Time Warner had gotten a fateful phone call earlier in 2016? — What could have been — After its $100 billion deal …

Discussion: @modestproposal1, @edmundlee, @birdyword and @andrewrsorkin

New York Times:
Interviews with 18 people reveal details of the Discovery-WarnerMedia deal, including stock structure change and an awkward talk with WarnerMedia's Jason Kilar

Discussion: Bloomberg, Insider, @darren_mooney, @preetatweets, @reckless, @ennisnyt, @katierosman, @grynbaum, @jeffjarvis, @edmundlee, @mattbelloni, @brentalang, @editorialiste, @annehummert and @karlbode

Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:

CNN has terminated its contract with senior political commentator Rick Santorum after his racist remarks about Native Americans at an event last month — The former GOP senator lost his contract with the network after claiming there was “nothing” in America before white colonizers arrived.

Andi Ortiz / The Wrap:

Former Trump spokesman Jason Miller is ordered to pay Gizmodo Media Group $42K to cover legal fees after a second attempt at suing Gizmodo — Jason Miller, a spokesperson for former President Donald Trump, has been ordered by a federal judge to pay Gizmodo Media Group almost $42,000 …

Discussion: @sollenbergerrc, The Daily Beast, @jason_kint, @timobrien and Insider

Matthew Dessem / Slate:

In a Last Week Tonight episode about sponsored content, John Oliver tricked three local US TV stations into airing a promo for a bogus “sexual wellness blanket” — The single greatest thing about Last Week Tonight has always been John Oliver's willingness to spend HBO's money …

Discussion: Mashable, Mediaite, @jillgeisler, @oliverdarcy, The Wrap and The A.V. Club

Jane Elizabeth / American Press Institute:

How local news outlets are working to recover from a year of trauma: collaborating, rethinking beats, making diversity and inclusion a reality, and more — More than a year after the global pandemic became official, local journalism still grapples with the fallout — not only from the coronavirus …

Discussion: @ampress and @andreagonram

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:

Kuaishou, ByteDance's main rival, reports Q1 revenue of $2.65B, up 37% YoY, and a net loss of $8.9B, as it delved deeper into online commerce and advertising — - Advertising and e-commerce helped juice quarterly revenue — Kuaishou offers investors a taste of China's hot video market

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BBC:

BBC will review its editorial practices and Martin Bashir's rehiring after a report found it covered up Bashir's “deceitful behaviour” to get a Diana interview — The BBC is to review its editorial practices and investigate how journalist Martin Bashir was rehired …

Discussion: The Guardian, Press Gazette, Variety, @pressgazette, Advanced Television and Hollywood Reporter

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

UK's Reach says it will pay back up to £4M to employees who took a pay cut at the start of the pandemic, after settling with some staff — Reach has agreed to pay back up to £4m to employees who took pay cuts at the start of the Covid-19 crisis between April and June last year.

Amelia Gentleman / The Guardian:

Associated Newspapers, which runs the Daily Mail, agrees to pay substantial damages to French actor Sand Van Roy after revealing she accused a director of rape — MailOnline published actor's identity as complainant in rape case against French director — Associated Newspapers …

Discussion: Sky News, @sandvanroy, @markwatts_1, Press Gazette and The Independent

RTDNA:

Full-time employment in local TV news increased 1.8% YoY to 28,000 in 2020, beating the previous high in 2009 — This is the third installment of this year's RTDNA/Newhouse School at Syracuse University Survey. Dig deeper into the data here and stay tuned for more about newsroom innovation and diversity.

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Pew Research Center:
Study: 33% of US papers with Sunday circulations of 50K+ faced layoffs in 2020, vs. 24% in 2019; 18% of the most visited digital-native news sites faced layoffs

Discussion: Pink's Bottom Line on Media …, @pewresearch, @pewjournalism and @pewresearch

Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting:
A look at the underbelly of subscriptions and direct-to-consumer models, which has publishers using “dark patterns” to avoid losing subscribers

Daniel Levitt / Inside The Newsroom:
Reporter says he left WSJ after being disciplined for violating company policy with his Substack Inside The Newsroom, even after he anonymized subscriber data

Discussion: @zoesullnews, Talking Biz News, @niubi, @l_d_c_m, @jeongpark52, @alv9n, @thefighttowrite, @normative and @justinjm1

Hollywood Reporter:
How the relationship between Hollywood and China has deteriorated in recent years amid US-China rivalry, as US studios' market share in China has plummeted

Discussion: @thr, @lachlan, @alanmcole, @adamserwer, @ritapanahi, @thr, @qwerty4life, @secretsunblog, @thedragonfeeder, @yair_rosenberg, @politiwars, @becomeatexan, @ccp_china_watch, @oliverdarcy, @cuyghurs and @thr

Sadiq Shaban / Gulf News:
Prominent Israeli journalist Asaf Ronel says he has resigned from Haaretz after 15 years over its coverage of violence against Palestinian citizens in Jaffa

Discussion: @ashkan, @miqdaad, @nkulw, @asafronel and @jamesnorth7

Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Court filings show US seized $90,000 paid to a Utah man by several news outlets for footage of a woman being fatally shot during the Capitol attack

Discussion: @bradheath, @maggiejordanacn, @bradheath, @dlamontjenkins, @jannwolfe, @jannwolfe, Raw Story and Insider

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Juan A. Lozano / Associated Press:
Texas carried out an execution on Wed. with no media present for the first time since 1982, raising concerns; officials said it was a mistake, are investigating

Discussion: @feddeathinmates, @mtarm, @riveradanie and @postcultrev

Columbia Journalism Review:
A Harvard study of link rot of “deep links” in NYT.com articles from 1996 to mid-2019 showed that 25% were completely inaccessible

Discussion: @zittrain, Global Investigative …, @internetarchive, @imagesnippets, @jamescridland, @btsmu, @jdevalk, @zittrain, @marklittlenews, @jenit, @meereeneseknot, @sandricollins, @boonerang and @waxy

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The failure of local investors to block Alden from buying Tribune Publishing was a failure of civic leadership, especially by Chicago's class of plutocrats

Laura Wagner / Defector:
Both CNN's treatment of Chris Cuomo and the AP's treatment of Emily Wilder show media institutions siding with the powerful over the ethical

CNN:
President Biden says he won't let his DOJ seize phone records or emails from reporters, calling it “simply wrong”, following a CNN report on Trump's DOJ

Discussion: Bloomberg, Associated Press, Axios, Raw Story, @cnnpolitics, @kylegriffin1, Forbes, The Hill, Deadline, Mediaite and Slate

From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone 17 Pro's camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is keeping TikTok and other ByteDance apps on its US App Store for at least another 75 days, following assurances from AG Pam Bondi

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer:
Sources: OpenAI is testing watermarks for images generated using ChatGPT's free account

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