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Ruchi Kumar / The Guardian:
Profile of Rukhshana, a news website started in 2020 by a collective of female Afghan journalists who are now at high risk of violence as the Taliban advance — A collective of female journalists are battling to make women's voices heard as the Islamist militants tighten their grip on the country
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
More than 100 journalists employed by US government's radio stations are yet to be evacuated from Afghanistan as the Taliban take power — More than a hundred journalists employed by the American government's own radio stations remain in Afghanistan as the Taliban take power, U.S. officials and Afghan journalists said Sunday.
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Columbia Journalism Review, @mlcalderone, @smbahr14, @mlcalderone and @benyt
Azmat Khan / @azmatzahra:
[Thread] How US reporters who worked in Afghanistan can help Afghan nationals get referrals for the State Department's refugee program — Are you an American journalist who's worked in Afghanistan? Then there's a 100% chance you hired Afghan nationals to help you with your work. Here's how you might be able to help them right now... (a thread)
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@dzalcman, @wickdchiq, @mahyadt, @frankluntz, @beautfc, @juichakravorty, @lilahass, @mayjeong, @lucas_jackson_, @amlivemon, @vonwurmbseibel, @peterzeihan and @ranaayyub
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Profile of Red Ventures, the South Carolina-based digital media company that in recent years has bought CNET, Lonely Planet, The Points Guy, Healthline, more — Red Ventures has turned very specific advice into very big business. — INDIAN LAND, S.C. — Lindsey Turrentine first heard …
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@lhorwich, @ted_williams, @jeffjarvis, @lturrentine, @michellemanafy, @felixsalmon, @benyt, @wexler, @nytimes, @lturrentine, @jspujji, @marctorrence, @patriciamazzei and @jspujji
Hollywood Reporter:
Some investors urge Disney to ditch its streaming bundle with Hulu and ESPN+ in favor of an all-in-one Disney+ offering, bringing it closer to the Netflix model — The success of the streaming bundle has led some investors to call for an all-in-one Disney+ streaming offering. Is CEO Bob Chapek interested?
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@bygeorgethomas, @davidpoland, @reeljeffewing and @alexweprin
Dean Sterling Jones / BuzzFeed News:
Snopes suspends its cofounder David Mikkelson after report finds he published 54 articles between 2015 and 2019 with plagiarized material from LAT and others — David Mikkelson, the cofounder of the fact-checking website Snopes, has long presented himself as the arbiter of truth online …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A look at Amazon's plans to expand its ad business by monetizing podcasts, after spending $350M+ buying rights to podcasts over the last 12 months — Amazon.com Inc. announced earlier this summer that it had acquired distribution rights to SmartLess, a popular podcast hosted by actors Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes.
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@lucas_shaw
Kelly Gilblom / Bloomberg:
Study of 6,000 websites and 900 apps that host pirated movies and TV finds they make ~$1.3B per year from ads, including ads by Amazon, Facebook, and Google — - Stolen-content providers make $1.3 billion a year, study says — Amazon, Facebook, Google contribute ads to the websites
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Beyond Search
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Future Publishing acquires Dennis Publishing, which runs The Week, IT Pro, Minecraft World, and other titles, for £300M — Future continues buying spree with purchase of 12 titles including The Week and Computer Active — Future, the owner of titles including Country Life and Metal Hammer …
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Press Gazette, Financial Times, Future and Adweek
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
DistroKid, which has helped 2M+ musicians upload music to streaming services, says it is valued at $1.3B after a recent raise from Insight Venture Partners — The music tools company processes more than 15,000 songs a day. — Millions of musicians have used DistroKid to make money from their art.
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@lucas_shaw
Kate Kaye / Digiday:
Google has quietly met with around 20 publishers since March to discuss its Privacy Sandbox initiative, including FLoC, as it prepares to move beyond cookies — Google engineers and staff on its ads and Chrome teams have a new monthly meeting on their calendars — with digital publishers.
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@katekayereports and @astaniscia86
Matthew Sheffield / Flux:
Interview with media critic Eric Boehlert on the persistence of obsolete “both sides” journalism, the rise of “faux left” pundits like Glenn Greenwald, and more — Media critic Eric Boehlert discusses how the mainstream press refuses to acknowledge that the Republican Party has turned against democracy
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@theorychange, @clearing_fog, @ericboehlert and @mattsheffield
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