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2:10 PM ET, October 30, 2021

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Delia Cai / Vanity Fair:
Q&A with EIC Nilay Patel on The Verge's 10th anniversary, tech media's advance from early breathless gadget reviews, subject-source relationships, and more  —  After a decade covering the Zucks, Googles, and Ubers of the scene, the Verge editor in chief reflects on tech's troublesome relationship with the rest of the world.
Nieman Lab:
Survey of 500 Nieman Lab readers on why they canceled news subscriptions: 31% due to money, 30% due to ideology, 13% because content wasn't satisfactory  —  What was the last news subscription you canceled, and why?  —  Media Twitter may be full of people threatening to cancel their …
Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
Two employees who openly criticized Netflix's support of Dave Chappelle's comedy special file charges with the NLRB, claiming retaliation  —  B. Pagels-Minor and Terra Field say the company retaliated against them for engaging in protected activity  —  Two Netflix employees at the heart …
Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at CatchLight, a California nonprofit that offers financial support and training for photojournalists and newsroom partners to combat “image deserts”  —  CatchLight, a California-based nonprofit, was launched in 2015 to create opportunities and support for photojournalists …
Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia:
Tencent invests $264M for a 6.86% stake in Japan's Kadokawa, which publishes about 5,000 book titles per year and also runs video sharing site Niconico  —  Chinese internet conglomerate to become third-largest shareholder  —  TOKYO — Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent Holdings will acquire …
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Twitter rolls out Super Follow for select creators globally on iOS, after previously limiting the feature to the US and Canada  —  Twitter is rolling out the ability for all iOS users globally to Super Follow select creators.  The option was previously only available to users in the U.S. and Canada.
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
BBC to appoint external investigators that will seek evidence from the public and lobby groups to assess the impartiality of contentious topic coverage  —  The BBC is to appoint external investigators to assess the impartiality of its coverage of contentious topics.
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
More than 80% of the ~250 eligible US Politico and E&E News staff have signed up with NewsGuild and are asking Axel Springer for recognition as the PEN Guild  —  - Unions says 80% of eligible U.S. employees have signed up  — Journalists at Politico, E&E News to make requests on Friday
Wall Street Journal:
WSJ's editorial board defends publishing a letter from Trump, saying Trump is making election rigging claims elsewhere, so “we hardly did him a special favor”  —  His 2020 monomania is news, and it reflects on his fitness for 2024.  —  By The Editorial Board
 
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BBC says an article about lesbians and trans women went through a “rigorous editorial process” after 16K people signed a letter protesting the piece
Damon Beres / Wired:
Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years
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Nikhil Kurian Nainan / Reuters:
Australia's competition regulator allows a group representing 261 radio stations to negotiate payments from Facebook and Google for the stations' news content
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