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David Mack / BuzzFeed News:
BuzzFeed News wins its first Pulitzer Prize for its series exposing China's mass detention of Muslims in the Xinjiang region  —  BuzzFeed News won a Pulitzer Prize on Friday for a series of innovative articles that used satellite images, 3D architectural models, and daring in-person interviews …
Kerry Flynn / CNN:
Pulitzer board gives a special citation to Darnella Frazier, who filmed George Floyd's murder  —  New York (CNN Business)The Pulitzer Prizes recognize some of the year's most important journalism.  This year, someone who isn't a professional journalist, but whose actions had as much impact as any, is among those being honored.
New York Times:
An oral history of the Pentagon Papers on the story's 50th anniversary, recounted by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and the NYT reporters who worked on the story  —  Interviews for this oral history were conducted in the spring of 2021 by Jennifer Harlan and Brian Gallagher.
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Ex-staffers say HiStudios' CEO encouraged drug use and bad behavior at a hype house; the studio was spun out of podcast startup Himalaya, funded by Ximalaya  —  How China's biggest audio platform funded one man's frat boy dreams  —  Imagine you're a podcaster who's been recording your show at CBS Radio …
Simon Owens / Simon Owens's Media Newsletter:
Interviews with Quartz CEO Zach Seward and Membership Editor Walter Frick on betting Quartz's future on paid memberships after becoming independent in 2020  —  The business news site went independent in 2020 and is betting much of its future on paid memberships.  —  22 hr ago  —  Welcome!
Alex Barker / Financial Times:
NewsCorp subsidiary News Group Newspapers reports loss of £201M for FY 2020, forcing it to write down The Sun by £84M, as pandemic hits circulation and ads  —  Pandemic hits circulation and advertising at tabloid newspaper that helped build media baron's empire
Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
Amazon has won the streaming rights to most of French soccer's top games until 2024, prompting Canal Plus to pull out of a smaller deal in protest  —  Amazon has snapped up the bulk of French soccer rights for the league's two top divisions for 2021-24, prompting pandemonium …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: Spotify is in talks with Alexandra Cooper for an exclusive licensing deal for her podcast, Call Her Daddy, produced by Barstool Sports, for around $20M  —  Spotify is on the hunt for another big-name podcaster: The company is in advanced talks with Alexandra Cooper to bring raunchy talk show …
Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Sources: Sinclair is raising $250M for a sports streaming service set to launch next year, aiming to charge $23/month in markets where it owns broadcast rights  —  Sinclair Broadcast Group is quietly raising money for a new service that would stream games by the St. Louis Cardinals …
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Google commits to involve UK's competition and privacy regulators in the development of its Privacy Sandbox proposals to replace third-party cookies on Chrome  —  - Google will give the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority a say in its plans to replace third-party cookies on Chrome.
 
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Jeffrey Toobin, fired by The New Yorker and suspended by CNN after exposing himself in a Zoom call with colleagues, returns to CNN as chief legal correspondent
Jack Morse / Mashable:
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Wall Street Journal:
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Reuters:
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