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1:30 PM ET, November 14, 2021

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Reuters:
Pope Francis thanks journalists for uncovering the Church's clerical sexual abuse, “helping us not to sweep it under the carpet”, and giving victims a voice  —  Pope Francis on Saturday thanked journalists for helping uncover the clerical sexual abuse scandals that the Roman Catholic Church initially tried to cover up.
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Interview with Jay Rosen on how US political coverage is now a choice between pro- and anti-democratic forces, what a pro-democracy media might look like, more  —  I'm Ezra Klein, and this is “The Ezra Klein Show.”  —  Hey, it's Ezra.  While I'm on paternity leave, we have got an All-Star team sitting in for me.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Survey of 132 senior news industry leaders from 42 countries found 89% are committed to hybrid work and 9% plan a return to the pre-pandemic working model  —  Pandemic-led changes to the nature of the newsroom look to be permanent and global, according to a new Changing Newsrooms report …
Vivian Wang / New York Times:
A look at the sharp shift at Hong Kong broadcaster RTHK, which used to be known for its editorial independence but is now a mouthpiece for Beijing  —  RTHK has often set the news agenda with its aggressive coverage of the city.  But a Beijing clampdown has changed that, with pro-China coverage filling the void.
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The Economist:
Hong Kong immigration authorities decline to renew the employment visa of Economist correspondent Sue-Lin Wong
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
WaPo corrects and removes portions of two articles from 2017 and 2019 that identified a Belarusian American businessman as a key source of the Steele dossier  —  The Washington Post on Friday took the unusual step of correcting and removing large portions of two articles …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN, which has long claimed the Steele dossier was at least partly corroborated, has not said whether it still stands by that reporting
Adam B. Vary / Variety:
Disney+ Day, celebrating the streaming service's two-year anniversary by touting 45+ series, features, and specials, didn't deliver much news or amazing footage  —  The promotional cavalcade covered every section of the service — Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, Disney animation and live action …
Lise Olsen / The Texas Observer:
Interview with the authors of the book Surviving Mexico on how journalists working along the US-Mexico border collaborate and the threats they face  —  Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante and Jeannine Relly, journalism professors based at the University of Arizona, spent the last decade collecting dozens …
Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
Interview with Sam Lessin and YouTuber Marina Mogilko about a $1.7M investment in her, in exchange for 5% of her creator-related earnings for the next 30 years  —  She gets $1.7 million.  Sam Lessin's venture firm gets 5% of her creator earnings for 30 years. “it's def not indentured servitude,” he says.
Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired UK:
Substack touts itself as an alternative to toxic, ad-driven social media, but many of its top earners are polarizing figures who were deplatformed elsewhere  —  The company's CEO says the old way of social media is broken—but is his alternative much different?
Paris Martineau / The Information:
Sources: Amazon formed a PR team in 2016 to find 90%+ of media reports it deemed inaccurate within two hours of publication, and to obtain corrections  —  There was a time when Jeff Bezos barely cared about public relations.  But after years of increasingly hostile media coverage …
Maria Bustillos / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with Kyiv Post EIC Brian Bonner on what caused the paper's sudden shutdown, his relationship with the owner, the Post's future, and more  —  Since 2008 the English-language Kyiv Post, under the leadership of editor-in-chief Brian Bonner, has consistently uncovered corruption …
New York Times:
Apple, Spotify, and other companies that distribute podcasts have done little to rein in COVID-19 misinformation, escaping the scrutiny social media giants face  —  False statements about vaccines have spread on the “Wild West” of media, even as some hosts die of virus complications.
Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers:
Instagram appears to be working on a feature that lets Live creators add moderators to their streams  —  Early last month, Instagram announced two new features for Live creators — Live Scheduling and Practice Mode.  The features aim to help make life easier for creators on the platform …
Discussion: 9to5Mac
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Instagram tests paying $10,000+ bonuses to select Reels creators, as part of a program announced in July
 
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Dominion Voting sues Fox Corporation, after Fox News, which it sued earlier, declined to produce documents from Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch
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Financial Times:
Axel Springer CEO says he wants to force the disclosure of sexual relationships between managers and subordinates following the Bild scandal
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Li Yuan / New York Times:
Zuo Fang, a Chinese journalist who in 1984 helped start Southern Weekly, China's most influential reform-era newspaper, has died at 86
CNBC:
Myanmar court sentences US journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison; he has been detained since May and faces two more charges in another court
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Taylor Swift releases a new copy of 2012's Red, the second album she has re-recorded to reclaim songs from investors holding rights to her original masters