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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Fox News contributors Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes resign from the network in protest of Tucker Carlson's streaming special on the January 6 Capitol mob — Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, stars of a brand of conservatism that has fallen out of fashion, decide they've had enough.
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Sara Fischer / @sarafischer:
Alden Global Capital announces an offer to acquire Lee Enterprises for $24/share, a ~30% premium to its stock's Nov. 19 closing price — NEW: Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known for cutting journalists at local papers to maximize profits, has announced an offer to acquire Lee Enterprises, a local newspaper firm, for $24 per share. (Statement below) — Alden acquired remainder of Tribune earlier this year https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Meierhans / BBC:
Spotify removes shuffle play as the default option on albums for premium users, so tracks play in the order artists intended, after Adele requests the change — Adele has persuaded Spotify to take the shuffle button off all album pages so tracks play in the artist's own order.
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Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Jessica Lessin says The Information has 225,000 “active users”, including paid subs and newsletter readers, as it prepares to launch a weekend lifestyle edition — Website aimed at Silicon Valley proves value of subscription model for journalism
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Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review:
Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation globally by paying millions of dollars in ad revenue to the operators of clickbait pages — A month after the fall of the democratic government. — In 2015, six of the 10 websites in Myanmar getting the most engagement …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen says it will overhaul its commercial ratings in 2022, with plans to measure audiences for individual ads — Nielsen has a new proposal for TV networks that have been threatening for months to find other means of measuring their audiences: Stick with the yardstick you already use.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Thirty journalists fired from the Kyiv Post earlier this month launch Kyiv Independent, promising to use reader donations before adding commercial activities — Thirty journalists who were abruptly fired from the Kyiv Post this month have started their own publication and promised to block …
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The Fix, @pressgazette, @thefixmedia and @olgatokariuk
Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company:
A look at Spotify's podcast investments, including its push into advertising and video, as it appears poised to dominate the industry — With 3.2 million podcasts on its platform and more monthly active users than Apple, Spotify is the new heavy in podcasting. It's just getting started.
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Spotify's Findaway acquisition will turn it into an audiobook producer, distributor, and retailer, while becoming the app for consuming all audio
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@evan_greer, @simonowens, @ashleyrcarman, @adrs, @joshhunt, @alphachromeyayo and Podcast Movement, more at Techmeme »
Moiz Syed / Source:
Interview with Moiz Syed, formerly of The Intercept and ProPublica, on the lack of empathy among newsroom managers, the “straitjacket of objectivity”, and more — “Journalists are encouraged to hold the powerful accountable, but never to proclaim the larger moral lessons of their work.”
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
A look at the product box programs offered by InStyle, The Cut, Eater, and Group Nine, as more publishers launch them as worthwhile revenue streams — InStyle and The Cut created their first product boxes for sale this month, as this line of business at Eater and Group Nine reaches their one-year anniversaries.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Paul Dacre is re-appointed EIC of DMG Media, an advisory role that won't involve day-to-day editing, less than three weeks after leaving the role — Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre is returning to his advisory editor-in-chief position at Mail publisher DMG Media, just three weeks after leaving the same role.
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
A look at projects like The Voguverse and companies like Pixel Vault that are trying to build media franchises around their NFT collectibles — There's a long way to go — In the online auction market OpenSea, you can pay around $600 to buy a portrait of a robot in streetwear — and, if you're lucky, a stake in a new media empire.
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