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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
DOJ says it will no longer “seek compulsory legal process in leak investigations to obtain source information from members of the news media doing their jobs” — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Saturday that it no longer will secretly obtain reporters' records …
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DOJ obtained a gag order, under Trump and continuing under Biden, preventing NYT execs from disclosing efforts to seize reporters' records even to Dean Baquet — A push by prosecutors to secretly seize data about four Times reporters' emails began in the Trump administration and continued under Biden.
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Kristine Phillips / USA Today:
The FBI has dropped a subpoena for USA Today records identifying readers of a story on a Florida shooting, after investigators found the suspect via other means — WASHINGTON - The FBI has withdrawn a subpoena demanding records from USA TODAY that would identify readers of a February story …
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Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Researcher: Twitter Super Follow to be limited to users over 18, with 25+ tweets posted in the last 30 days and 10K+ followers; categories include adult content — The company teased the Patreon-like subscription service earlier this year — Twitter announced earlier this year it was working …
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
How some watchdog blogs blur the line between PR and journalism: Checks and Balances Project shares a founder with a PR firm and received a grant from Airbnb — At first glance, Checks and Balances Project looks like a traditional if scrappy news site — an “investigative watchdog blog,” …
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Kerry Flynn / CNN:
Staff at The Atlantic announce an intent to unionize; a member of the organizing committee says ~85% of those signed union cards with the NewsGuild of New York — New York (CNN Business)In a 1916 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, John D. Rockefeller Jr. wrote about workers' right to organize.
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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
France's competition authority says Google agreed to pay a fine of nearly $270M and promised to make it easier for competitors to use its ad tools — Deal with competition authority resolves complaint over the firm's digital advertising tactics — PARIS— Alphabet Inc.'s Google agreed …
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Mark Jacob / Local News Initiative:
Local news apps remain a niche product but outlets are pushing to improve them, touting them as a better customer experience that boosts engagement and loyalty — Local news organizations are working hard to improve their news apps and get readers to download them, touting …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Walmart launches two onn-branded Android TV devices, a TV streaming stick for $25 and a 4K streaming device for $30 — Walmart accidentally scooped itself by publishing product listings for its own, onn-branded, low-cost Android TV streaming stick to the Walmart.com website ahead of its formal launch …
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New York Times:
Analysis of Trump's social media engagement before and after bans shows a significant drop but some posts still receive equal engagement due to amplification — When Facebook and Twitter barred Donald J. Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones.
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Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
A co-founder of liberal PAC MeidasTouch says Fox News declined to broadcast an ad on Sunday featuring law enforcement officers speaking about the January 6 riot — Fox News declined to broadcast an ad Sunday about the violence that law-enforcement members faced as they tried to stop …
Timothy B. Lee / Rethinking News:
Blogging's more social and ephemeral aspects have largely migrated to Twitter, which has become a key way for writers to build audiences to sell newsletters to — We didn't stop blogging. We just do it 280 characters at a time now. — I owe my journalism career to blogging.
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The Daily Beast:
The NewsGuild of New York has revised a plan to increase dues, making the move temporary for three years, after opposition from some NYT and Reuters members — A contingent of Times journos, including many Pulitzer winners, has stood in opposition to the NewsGuild's proposed dues hike.
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