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UNC trustees voted to approve tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones after controversy over her hire without tenure as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism — Listen to our daily briefing: — UNC-Chapel Hill trustees voted to approve tenure for distinguished journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones …
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Elizabeth Wagmeister / Variety:
Meghan McCain to depart The View after nearly four years at the end of the season — Meghan McCain is departing “The View,” after nearly four years on the ABC daytime show, Variety has confirmed. — As the panel's resident conservative talking head, McCain regularly sparred with her co-hosts …
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Emily Crane / Daily Mail:
Sources: Meghan McCain will announce her resignation from The View after four years; co-hosts are not yet aware of her decision — - Meghan McCain will be announcing her resignation from ABC's The View today, a Disney source told DailyMail.com — The 36-year-old is leaving the talk show …
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Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Adam Mosseri says Instagram plans to test video more broadly, calls TikTok and YouTube competitors, and says Instagram is “no longer a photo-sharing app” — - Facebook's head of Instagram said the service plans to start showing users full-screen, recommended videos in their feeds.
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David Ingram / NBC News:
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Florida's Stop Social Media Censorship Act from going into effect, which was scheduled for Thursday — A federal judge Wednesday put on hold a first-of-its-kind law in Florida that authorized the state to penalize social media companies …
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Group M: Google, Facebook, Alibaba, ByteDance, and Amazon claimed 46% of global ad revenues in 2020; in 2010, the then top 5, including News Corp, claimed 17% — Five tech companies today account for nearly half of the world's advertising revenue, a report has found.
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Profile of Joe Rogan, from 2000s standup comedian to controversial podcaster with an exclusive Spotify deal, as he settles in Austin and returns to comedy — He's now one of the most consumed media products on the planet. His Spotify deal, estimated at $100 million, speaks to the allure …
New York Times:
A look at the new guard of fashion editors who are younger and less familiar, but more diverse and have a different set of priorities than the imperial editors — Business and culture have conspired to kill off a passé persona. — On Monday, when the fashion world will gather …
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Maaisha Osman / ONA Student Newsroom:
News organizations see data visualization as a way to educate but readers struggle to understand graphs and need publishers to help walk them through the data — While eye-catching data viz pieces like the Financial Times “Coronavirus tracker” or New York Times “The Pandemic Has Split in Two …
Matthew Weaver / The Guardian:
EIC of prestigious academic journal Annals of Human Genetics says he resigned after being prevented from publishing an article calling for a boycott of China — David Curtis says publisher of Annals of Human Genetics blocked call for protest at treatment of Uyghurs
David Cohen / Adweek:
Pinterest updates its ad policies to prohibit ads containing weight loss language and imagery — It worked with the National Eating Disorders Association on its updated policy — Ads promoting healthy lifestyles and habits or fitness services and products will still be allowed
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Ciara Greene / Nieman Lab:
Study finds reading fake news changed people's behavior, but not dramatically; some participants developed false memories about the fake stories they read — “The spread of Covid-19 is linked to 5G mobile networks.” “Place a halved onion in the corner of your room to catch the Covid-19 germs.”
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