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Feven Merid / Columbia Journalism Review:
McClatchy, owned by hedge fund Chatham Asset Management, skips Report for America's next cycle; sources: it's a response to RFA president's hedge fund bashing — In June, the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by Steven Waldman—the president and co-founder of Report for America (RFA) …
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The Economist:
Newsprint prices in the US were 20%-30% higher YoY in 2021 and will be 50%-70% higher YoY in Q1 2022 in Europe, as many paper mills convert to making packaging — “It's like tasering an elderly person who's already on a pacemaker,” says a British newspaper boss of the newsprint market …
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Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Daily Wire files a lawsuit claiming the Biden administration's employer vaccine mandate lacks constitutional or statutory authority — Bentkey Services, LLC, the company that owns the conservative website The Daily Wire, filed a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration's employer vaccine mandate in federal court on Thursday.
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Mediaite, @kurtbardella, The Hill and Joe.My.God.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Bauhinia, a holding company owned by China's Liaison Office in Hong Kong, is working on an offer to acquire South China Morning Post from Alibaba — - Bauhinia owned by government's Liaison Office in Hong Kong — Alibaba under pressure from Beijing to shed media properties
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Caleb Pershan / Columbia Journalism Review:
Nielsen: between October 2020 and October 2021, CNN viewership fell 73%, MSNBC viewership fell 56%, and Fox News viewership fell 53% — After a year of voracious consumption fueled by the election, post-election violence and pandemic coverage, Americans have turned off the news—on television, online and in print.
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@zigmanfreud and American Press Institute
Julia Black / Insider:
Several women describe humiliating and frightening sexual experiences with Barstool Sports' Dave Portnoy; two say they were filmed without advance permission — In the summer of 2020, Madison sent Barstool Sports' founder, Dave Portnoy, a direct message on Instagram complimenting his famous “one bite” pizza reviews.
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Agence France-Presse:
Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, jailed for reporting on COVID-19 in Wuhan, is close to death after going on a hunger strike, according to her family — Citizen reporter Zhang Zhan, 38, was arrested and jailed after reporting on the outbreak — A citizen journalist jailed …
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@mickpuck, @joeyayoub, @benedictrogers, Amnesty International, Newser and Raw Story
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
CNN ran a story on the cost of milk with claims that didn't add up, and two staffers reacted to criticism of the segment by lashing out at critics on Twitter — I didn't plan on writing about milk today, but... here we are. — But first, let's travel back to the year 2010.
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Nathan Bomey / USA Today:
Gannett reports Q3 revenue of $800.2M, down 1.8% YoY, and net income of $14.7M; digital subscriptions rose 46% YoY to more than 1.5M; stock down 8%+ — Gannett, the owner of USA TODAY, posted a second straight quarterly profit as the company's digital subscription strategy gained momentum.
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Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Q&A with AMC Networks executives on the company's niche streaming services, the appeal of Amazon and Apple TV for distribution, and more — Dan McDermott has seen the future of streaming, and it looks nothing like Netflix — or Hulu, or even Peacock. As the recently promoted president …
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@jimmaiella, @tvmojoe and @vulture
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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google quietly removes Assistant's Your News Update feature, which launched in 2019 to give personalized audio digests based on user data — In November of 2019, Google upgraded Assistant's “play me the news” capability with personalized audio digests. Google Assistant has now removed …
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Jonathan M. Katz / The Racket:
How NYT's Jeremy W. Peters and other reporters create the impression of a broad constituency for extreme right-wing ideas via their interview subject choices — Liberals woke up to some bad news yesterday: The governor's race in Virginia, a state Biden won by double digits, went to a previously unknown Republican.
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@ronhogan, @jamisonfoser, @blackamazon, @samthielman, @samthielman, @froomkin and Columbia Journalism Review
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Internal email: HFPA's interim CEO Todd Boehly wants to merge the nonprofit with his company MRC Entertainment, which produces the annual awards show — Todd Boehly, the hedge-fund billionaire and interim CEO of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, is seeking to merge the nonprofit organization behind …
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@kjerstiflaa, @sharonwaxman, @sharonwaxman and Defector
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