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Cristiano Lima / Washington Post:
In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement as “inaccurate” — The Federal Trade Commission has dismissed as “inaccurate” Facebook's claim that it cut off a group of researchers' access …
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Gilad Edelman / Wired:
Mozilla's analysis says Facebook's justifications for cutting off access to researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory project “simply do not hold water”
Mozilla's analysis says Facebook's justifications for cutting off access to researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory project “simply do not hold water”
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Memo from CNN's Jeff Zucker: the company has fired three employees in the last week who had been coming into the office unvaccinated — CNN said on Thursday that it had fired three employees who violated its coronavirus safety protocols by going to the office unvaccinated …
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Wall Street Journal, Variety, MediaPost, @grynbaum, @grynbaum, Los Angeles Times, TVNewser, UPROXX, @ennisnyt, @normwilner, @normwilner, @reeveslawstl, Insider, @cruellasbff, The Hill, @imillhiser, Newser, @keitholbermann, @stephenfarrow, @kbibbinsdomingo, Breitbart, @jackposobiec, Mediaite, @jeffjarvis, The A.V. Club, Associated Press, nexttv.com, Hollywood Reporter, New York Post and Bloomberg
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
At a panel, Jay Rosen and The Correspondent's Rob Wijnberg discuss lessons learned and why the startup failed, partially due to an excessive focus on marketing — “It's important to speak truth. It's not that important to speak about truth as part of your brand."
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@laurahazardowen, @mariaramirezny, @dicktofel, @7homaslin, @maggienyt, @alexburnsnyt, @michaelroston, @pilhofer, @samtranum and @mathewi
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Associated Press:
Taliban say they've killed the director of Afghanistan's Government Information Media Center, who ran state press operations for local and foreign media — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban shot and killed the director of Afghanistan's Government Information Media Center on Friday …
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Insider, Washington Post and @markdavis
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Dow Jones, the News Corp unit that is parent of WSJ, MarketWatch, and Barron's, reported $69M in profit on $449M revenue in Q4; WSJ subscriptions rose 15% YoY — Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron's reported an 18 percent increase in revenue …
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Texas Tribune names Sewell Chan as its editor-in-chief, starting October 18; Chan currently oversees the LA Times' editorial board and opinion section — Mr. Chan, who became The Times's editorial page editor last year, will be the editor in chief of The Texas Tribune starting Oct. 18.
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The Texas Tribune, @evanasmith, @katie_robertson, @sewellchan, Talking Biz News, Los Angeles Times, @ckrewson, @peterlattman, @mcpli, @jcslattery, @jenny8lee, @pekingmike, @rickhasen, @jeffjarvis, @sarabethberman, @raju, @philiprucker, @aaja, @doristruong, @michaelluo, @eramshaw, @jdelreal, @agordonreed, @mitrakalita, @bryancurtis, @bylizrobbins, @liamstack, @jswatz, @grynbaum, @sree, @jamesfallows, @pamelacolloff, @dicktofel, @lzgranderson, @jakesherman, @eramshaw, @froomkin, @evanasmith, @evanasmith, @evanasmith and The Wrap
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
AMC Networks Q2: $68M in operating income on net revenue of $771.4M, up 19% YoY; domestic ad revenue up 13% YoY to $212M, subscription revenue up 14% YoY — AMC Networks joined the ranks of media companies showing that TV advertising has mounted a significant recovery from the devastation of Covid-19 a year ago.
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MediaPost, Hollywood Reporter and GlobeNewswire News Room
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett Q2: net income of $15M on revenue of $804M, up 5% YoY; circulation revenue fell 9.4% YoY, though it added 145K digital subscribers for a total of 1.4M — The nation's largest newspaper company added 145,000 digital subscribers in Q2, bringing the total systemwide number to 1.4 million.
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Business Wire and USA Today
Steven Perlberg / Insider:
Texas Monthly's president says the outlet has made 20+ Hollywood licensing deals in the last 18 months, totaling about $1M, in an effort primarily for marketing — - Texas Monthly has sold about 20 deals to Hollywood companies in roughly the past 18 months.
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Researchers studying 300,000 YouTube viewers from 2016-2019 suggest that radicalization via algorithm is not widespread; most stick to their ideological corners — Tracking user behavior shows that most people don't go down radical rabbit holes. — We've all seen it happen …
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@anupamchander, @annemariebridy, @davmicrot and Reclaim The Net
Karolos Grohmann / Reuters:
IOC says no one, including athletes, is allowed to share videos from the Olympics on social media in order to protect broadcasters' rights — Sharing videos from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on social media is not allowed, even for athletes, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) …
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The Guardian, @mmasnick and Reclaim The Net
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Gotham Awards will no longer award acting prizes by gender, replacing best actor and best actress prizes with outstanding lead performance; — The Gothams will replace the best actress and best actor categories with a single category for “outstanding lead performance.” — Should acting prizes be gender neutral?
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@clairewillett, @wizzkhaleesi, @franklinleonard, The Wrap, Variety, Vanity Fair and IndieWire
Michael Schneider / Variety:
HFPA adopts a new set of bylaws to reform the organization, including an expansion of its board of directors and of membership criteria to increase diversity — The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has approved the new set of bylaws that had been proposed to reform the organization …
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New York Times, Newser and The Wrap