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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Judge orders NYT not to publish any Project Veritas “privileged materials”, despite precedent against prior restraint; NYT seeks immediate review of the ruling — WASHINGTON — A judge in New York on Thursday took the rare step of temporarily blocking the New York Times …
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Washington Post:
Judge bans MSNBC from Rittenhouse trial after police say they stopped a producer following the jurors' bus; NBC denies its freelancer meant to contact jurors — KENOSHA, Wis. — The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial banned MSNBC from the Kenosha County Courthouse on Thursday …
Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:
A look at the issues at Jezebel since G/O Media hired Lea Goldman as deputy editorial director in March; nine writers and editors have left since her hiring — In March, G/O Media — the parent company of several former Gawker Media websites including the feminist blog Jezebel …
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Axios Local expands to 11 new cities for a total of 25, with plans for 25 more in 2022; CFO expects the newsletter product to earn $5M in revenue by year end — Axios Local is going bicoastal. The city-based network of free, local newsletters announced Thursday morning that it is expanding …
American Journalism Project:
The American Journalism Project partners with the Google News Initiative to accelerate the launch of nonprofit newsrooms across the US — NEW YORK — The American Journalism Project and the Google News Initiative (GNI) are partnering to develop an ambitious program that will accelerate …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Russian tech exec Aleksej Gubarev drops his defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed over its publication of the Steele dossier — A Russian internet entrepreneur has dropped a four-year legal battle against BuzzFeed over its publication of the so-called Steele dossier, a politically charged …
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Columbia Journalism Review, @emptywheel, Vanity Fair, @emptywheel, @joshgerstein, @ggreenwald, emptywheel and TK News
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify expands real-time lyrics to all users globally in partnership with Musixmatch, after initially launching in 26 markets — After years of ignoring consumer demand for in-app lyrics, particularly in the U.S., Spotify announced today it will make a new Lyrics feature available to all global users …
The Marshall Project:
The Marshall Project is launching a Cleveland newsroom in 2022, which will collaborate with local outlets and is partially funded by a Gund Foundation grant — New support from the Gund Foundation to drive expansion of local investigative reporting — The Marshall Project …
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Scene and Heard, @danmoulthrop, @caryaspinwall, @schwartzapfel, @davidfolkenflik, @marshallproj, @geraldinesealey and @racheldissell
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Amazon tests interactive fan polling during its Thursday Night Football stream on Android phones, asking questions like “Who will score first?” — Amazon has a new delivery for fans of “Thursday Night Football.” — The tech behemoth, which currently enjoys rights to stream …
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Heartland Signal, a Midwest politics news site, launches in combination with existing radio station WCPT, both backed by Democratic donor Fred Eychaner — A major Democratic donor is funding a new media outlet that launched Thursday, aimed at covering state and local races in the Midwest …
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A look at Jessica Huseman's Friendly State News, which offers low-cost training to newsrooms and freelancers in concrete journalism skills like FOIA requests — “If I was queen for a day, what I would honestly do is fire every journalism professor and hire adjuncts working in the field.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Hulu launches Shop Hulu, a site selling limited-edition collections of clothes and lifestyle products related to its content library — This summer, Netflix launched its own shopping site that allowed fans to purchase apparel, accessories and other lifestyle products from their favorite shows, like “Stranger Things.”
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