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Choire Sicha, most recently the editor of the NYT Styles section, is joining New York Magazine as an editor-at-large — New York Magazine editor-in-chief David Haskell announced today that Choire Sicha is joining as an editor-at-large. He will regularly write short-form pieces for Intelligencer …
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Kerry Flynn / CNN:
Staff at The Atlantic announce an intent to unionize; EIC appears to agree to voluntarily recognize the union, announcing intention to work with its organizers — 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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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Psaki won't commit to Biden increasing frequency of formal news conferences, after holding just one since Jan., saying “he takes questions several times a week” — New York (CNN Business)The White House press briefing room will return to 100% capacity on Monday after 15 months …
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Mark Zuckerberg:
Zuckerberg says Facebook will keep paid online events, fan subscriptions, and upcoming independent news products free for creators until 2023 — To help more creators make a living on our platforms, we're going to keep paid online events, fan subscriptions, badges, and our upcoming independent …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
YouGov survey of ~2,000 UK adults shows 10% would be willing to pay to read online news articles, 47% for movies and TV, and 33% for music — Six in ten in the UK are now willing to pay for online content with 10% saying they would pay to read online news articles, according to new research.
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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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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 …
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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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Andy Meek / Forbes:
Sports Illustrated publisher Maven raises $20M and buys New Jersey-based sports news website The Spun, says SI had a record 38M+ online readers in January — Sports Illustrated publisher Maven is making 2021 the year it gets a lot bigger. — In tandem with an announcement on Monday …
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
Fox News and CNN decided not to broadcast Trump's recent speech live, his first major speech since February, with Fox News airing a pre-taped Watters World show — Former President Donald Trump made a return to the political arena Saturday night with a speech at the North Carolina Republican Party State Convention in Greenville.
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,” …
New York Times:
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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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”
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”
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