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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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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
[Thread] Politico owner Robert Allbritton emails staff about his opposition to a union, cites inflexibility and a loss of speed in reacting to new circumstances — Politico's Robert Allbritton just emailed staff detailing his opposition to unionization,saying he hopes employees “will conclude after studying this question that a union is not in the publication's interests, our reader's interests, or in the interests of individual employees.” https://twitter.com/...
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Sources: some staffers at Bloomberg Industry Group, including outlets such as Bloomberg Law, worry about mandatory in-office work with no required vaccinations — Staffers in the D.C. area are frustrated as the company mandates twice-weekly appearances but does not require coronavirus vaccination
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@jeremymbarr, @brianstelter and @ellengilmer
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”
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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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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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Washington Post, Politico, Insider and @markdavis
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
The State Department has a refugee plan for Afghans who worked for US news outlets, but workers still face violence or onerous travel if they seek resettlement — In July, a coalition of news organizations and press groups—including the New York Times, the Washington Post …
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Kim Hart / Axios:
Policy paper proposes revamping the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to fund a wide range of content producers, including independent journalists — The concept of a new media ecosystem that's non-profit, publicly funded and tech-infused is drawing interest in policy circles as a way to shift …
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@karenkornbluh, @report4america, @dangainor, @trevmckendrick, @groundtruth, @axios and American Press Institute
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
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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@davmicrot, @annemariebridy, @anupamchander and Reclaim The Net
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.
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@perlberg and @stephemcneal
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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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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