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Ben Smith / New York Times:
The labor beat is hot again, both at legacy news outlets and at mission-driven ones like NY-focused The Chief-Leader, whose new owner plans to double staff — At a moment of political turmoil, economic change and a pandemic-driven focus on how we work, labor has become a hot news beat.
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Tim Marchman / VICE:
Ben Smith's latest column is at least his fourth article mentioning NewsGuild without noting that it represents BuzzFeed workers against whom Smith negotiated — Ben Smith covers the NewsGuild a lot without mentioning his past with it or his financial interest in BuzzFeed, whose workers it represents.
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Poynter, @lainnafader, @timmarchman and @niemanlab
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Wirecutter staff to strike around Black Friday, the site's busiest time of the year, to protest NYT's refusal to agree to significant guaranteed wage raises — Journalists at the New York Times Co.'s Wirecutter unit plan to strike during the product review website's peak traffic period around Black Friday …
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Maria Verza / Associated Press:
Mexican prosecutors say they've arrested a businessman on charges of using Pegasus spyware to spy on a journalist — MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors said Monday they have arrested a businessman on charges he used the Pegasus spyware to spy on a journalist.
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Report: the BBC's license fee could be frozen for 2022 and 2023 to stop it from rising with inflation, hurting the BBC's ability to compete with big streamers — The BBC looks set to have its funding frozen for the next two years in a major blow to the corporation's ability to compete with the big players.
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Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Clubhouse rolls out Replay on iOS and Android, letting users record live rooms and share them as a podcast or a clip on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok — Clubhouse hosts and moderators will have a fresh tool in their kit today. The company is pushing a new feature live on both its iOS …
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Clubhouse Blog and @justiacom, more at Techmeme »
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Vox's new EIC Swati Sharma about revamping its editorial strategy to redefine “Voxxy” as the publication eliminates its Identities section — Last month, Vox.com eliminated its Identities section, which covered a range of topics, including criminal justice, race, religion, gender, and drugs.
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@voxmedia and @niemanlab
Illia Ponomarenko / @iaponomarenko:
Kyiv Post, Ukraine's only major newspaper in English, closes; staff say they were all fired after resisting attempts to infringe on editorial independence — BREAKING! @KyivPost has been killed. As simple as that. Today is officially the last day of Ukraine's only major English-language newspaper. We are all fired. This is what we all have to say about this situation. Please, please share to spread the word arond. https://twitter.com/...
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Sarah Rappaport / Bloomberg:
Saudi Arabia, which lifted a ban on cinemas in 2018, is investing $64B in its entertainment industry and wants to become a destination for Hollywood filmmakers — The desert kingdom's becoming a destination for film makers after ending a decades-long ban on cinema.
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@prof_chadwick and @viviannereim
Max Willens / Digiday:
McClatchy, which began placing audio versions of its articles at the top of stories in September, reports 1%-5% clickthrough rates on the audio player — In late September, McClatchy sent a robot probe into a world where audiences can listen to every story its papers produce.
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@johnkunza, @simonowens and @beyondbylines
Barbara Allen / Poynter:
A 148-year-old Georgia weekly was about to close so its publisher could retire, but UGA's journalism school is taking it over and making it a capstone class — The publisher of The Oglethorpe Echo planned to shut the paper down so he could retire. A phone call to the college saved it.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Indictment of Steele dossier source doubles as a critique of Rachel Maddow and media outlets like WSJ, whose initial scoop cited a single anonymous source — MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in December 2017 aired a special report on the Trump-Russia dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
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