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12:05 PM ET, September 30, 2021

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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
LinkedIn has blocked the profiles of several US journalists on its Chinese platform, citing “prohibited content” without specifying what it was  —  LinkedIn blocked the profiles of several U.S. journalists from the company's China-based platform this week, citing “prohibited content.”
Jemima McEvoy / Forbes:
Sources detail how 2019's Ozy Fest would have exposed Ozy's untruths, before it was canceled due to a heatwave and gave the company a large insurance windfall  —  I'm a British-born reporter covering breaking news for Forbes.  —  I cover tech companies for Forbes.
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New York Times:
Katty Kay, a former BBC anchor who recently joined Ozy, resigns, citing NYT's reporting on the company
Axios:
Sources: in an extremely rare move, SV Angel, led by VC Ron Conway, informed Ozy that it will give up stock acquired in 2012
Tony Arnold / WBEZ Chicago:
Chicago Public Media names Matt Moog as new CEO, as its board votes to pursue an acquisition of the Chicago Sun-Times  —  URL Copied!  —  In an unprecedented maneuver to try and “secure the future” of one Chicago's two daily newspapers, Chicago Public Media's board of directors voted Wednesday …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Ofcom says British TV and radio broadcasters remain “woeful” at promoting staff from diverse backgrounds to senior management positions  —  Recruitment of people of colour and disabled staff into junior roles yet to be replicated at senior level
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Interview with New Yorker archives editor Erin Overbey, who has worked at the magazine for 27 years, about her tweet thread on the magazine's lack of diversity  —  Erin Overbey took on a painstaking research project for herself in 2019.  Combing through back issues of the New Yorker …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple, for the first time, shares the top paid podcast subscriptions and free channels globally, counting devices that played at least one second of an episode  —  RANKINGS … Apple's top paid subscriptions are ranked in order of total subscribed listeners worldwide over the past three months …
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Spotify says podcast creators using its Anchor service can add interactive polls and Q&As to their programs  —  But you have to be on Anchor  —  Spotify is making podcasts on its platform more interactive.  The company announced today that podcasters who create their shows in Anchor …
Bloomberg:
After raising $155M in April, Patreon plans to invest in original programming by podcasters, video game livestreamers, YouTubers, and major celebrities  —  In today's Silicon Valley, land of buzzwords, there may be none buzzier than “creator”—the tech industry's chosen way to refer to someone …
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Rachel Cheung / Columbia Journalism Review:
Hong Kong's Stand News, Citizen News, and HK Feature still cover political changes with a critical eye as mainstream outlets fall under government control
Christopher Grimes / Financial Times:
IATSE members, representing 60,000 behind-the-scenes movie and TV workers, vote Friday on whether to strike over a larger streaming revenue share and more
Wall Street Journal:
Profile of Brian Robbins, founder of AwesomenessTV and former actor, producer, and Nickelodeon chief, who was promoted a month ago to run Paramount Pictures
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Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
YouTube says it is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and blocking all anti-vax content, not just about COVID-19 vaccines
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CNN leads the News & Documentary Emmys with seven awards, as Vice News wins for outstanding newscast and Jonathan Swan wins for his Trump interview
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Netflix acquires its first game studio, Night School Studio, which was founded by Sean Krankel and Adam Hines in 2014 and is best known for the game Oxenfree