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Gwynedd Stuart / Los Angeles Magazine:
Profile of Yashar Ali, who breaks his biggest stories on Twitter and Substack, unencumbered by the fact-checking and legal vetting required by news outlets — I'm extremely upset. Yashar Ali delivers this news as he settles into a booth in the lobby of Santa Monica's Proper Hotel.
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@ashleyfeinberg, @lamag, @organizingpow3r, @isaacdovere, @silvermanjacob, @silvermanjacob, @mcwm, @oliverdarcy and The Daily Beast
New York Times:
About 100 union members at The New Yorker, Ars Technica, and Pitchfork picketed Anna Wintour's home Tuesday, pushing Condé Nast for better pay and job security — After more than two years of negotiations with the magazine's parent company, Condé Nast, more than 100 demonstrators marched …
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@lachcartwright, HuffPost, @delia_cai, @chactivist, @newyorkerunion, @samthielman, The NewsGuild - CWA, @designobserver, @tom_nuttall, @moorehn, @mxtaliajane, @alexnpress, @lainnafader, @hilasims, @p4kunion, @benyt, @dmandl, @lainnafader, @katzish, @katie_robertson, @edmundlee, @liz_dosta, @mattdpearce, @ryanbeckwith, @hollygressley, @liz_dosta, @zagatam, @kerrymflynn, @laurenthehough, @nytguildtech, @acekatana, @lachcartwright, @ryanbeckwith, @brian_castner, @newyorkerunion, @lachcartwright, @maxwelltani and Page Six
Steven Waldman / Los Angeles Times:
Congress could help local news organizations by offering incentives to newspaper owners and to readers, such as loan guarantees and tax credits — With Alden Global Capital's recent acquisition of the Tribune Publishing newspaper chain, the country has reached a troubling milestone …
The New York Times Company:
NYT says Stella Bugbee, most recently an editor-at-large at New York magazine, will be its Styles editor — Stella joins The Times from New York magazine and brings a broad and ambitious vision for Styles coverage, one that embraces fashion and lifestyle even as it explores issues of politics, gender, power and fame.
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@jacobrubashkin, New York Times, @stellabugbee, @olivianuzzi, @karaswisher, @choire, @allisonpdavis, @rovzar, @samsifton, @felixsalmon, @choire, @davidfolkenflik and @kerrymflynn
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Apple's changes to notifications on phones and the addition of Mail Privacy Protection could hurt publishers, including solo newsletter publishers on Substack — The news alerts you send to iPhones might be about to disappear from your users' screens. The bedrock metric of the newsletter business just got murdered.
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ScreenRant, CNBC, Apple, @ketchcast, @brizzyc, @razarumi, @ddamned, @brianboyer, @oliverdarcy, @jbenton, @davidclinchnews, @mattnavarra, @niemanlab, @jbenton, The Verge and What's New in Publishing, more at Techmeme »
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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Ad-supported and subscription-only newsletters both have ways to understand audiences without the tracking pixels blocked by Apple's Mail Privacy Protection — How Mail Protection Privacy will force the email economy to adapt — Today, let's talk about one of Apple's many announcements …
Nicole Moorefield / The Daily Tar Heel:
Walter Hussman says he was concerned about Hannah-Jones' “celebrity” status and the 1619 Project overshadowing his core values for UNC's journalism school — Walter Hussman told The Daily Tar Heel on Friday that he was concerned about Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project overshadowing …
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Washington Post, @kreissdaniel, Media Nation, @dailytarheel and @johnrobinson
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Sources: AG Merrick Garland is meeting with leaders of NYT, WaPo, and CNN on Monday to discuss concerns over prosecutors' practices in leak investigations — Lawyers for the newspaper are asking how the Justice Department justified keeping the order secret since its leak inquiry was publicly known.
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@nytimes and @charlie_savage
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
To find confidential sources, the government has stomped on the First Amendment again by seeking reporters' phone and email records; DOJ's IG should investigate
To find confidential sources, the government has stomped on the First Amendment again by seeking reporters' phone and email records; DOJ's IG should investigate
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@porter_anderson, Columbia Journalism Review, @jesselynradack, @sulliview, @davidlaufmanlaw, @adamgoldmannyt and @maggienyt
Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Biden signs an EO revoking the Trump-era bans on TikTok and says his commerce secretary will investigate any risks to national security and privacy — But the apps still aren't out of hot water — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday revoking the Trump-era bans on TikTok and WeChat.
R.T. Watson / Wall Street Journal:
Tribeca Festival drops Film from its name, as it embraces podcasting alongside interactive mediums like gaming and virtual reality — New York's biggest film event embraces podcasting along with interactive mediums like gaming and virtual reality — The Tribeca Film Festival is no longer just a film festival.
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@rayalexsmith and @anthony
Sara Fischer / Axios:
DC-based research and polling company Morning Consult raises $60M Series B from James Murdoch's Lupa Systems and others, at a valuation of $1B+ — Morning Consult, the Washington, D.C.-based research and polling firm, has raised a $60 million Series B round that values the company at over $1 billion.
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@rasmussen_poll, @jpiacenza, @alexmsilverman, @jakesherman, @tankcat, @xpangler, @morningconsult and @sarafischer
The Guardian:
Journalism has been outlawed in all but name since the coup in Myanmar, with reporters and editors fleeing the country or leading double lives to survive — Journalism has been outlawed in all but name since the coup, with reporters and editors fleeing the country or leading double lives to survive
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@mmoe_myint, @kenroth, @kyawhsanhlaing1, @robinsonbkk, @mukeshkapila and @kenroth