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Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
Republican leaders say journalists will no longer be allowed to work on the Iowa Senate floor, breaking a more than 140-year tradition, worrying press advocates — When Iowa's 2022 legislative session commences Monday, there will be a notable absence on the floor of the state Senate: reporters.
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Caitlin Petre / Nieman Lab:
Research finds journalists consider some uses of metrics “clean”, like those used for a story's promotion, while using metrics to determine content is “dirty” — In late January 2012, A. J. Daulerio, then the editor in chief of Gawker.com, published a post on the site announcing an experiment.
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Politico Playbook issues a correction after misidentifying Sen. Schumer's wife as Justice Sotomayor, blaming an editor for not verifying a tipster's photo — OOPS — Politico's Playbook newsletter issued a correction on Saturday morning after misidentifying Democratic leader Chuck Schumer's wife …
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Nick Lewis / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Armenia's introduction of higher defamation fines and criminal charges for “grave insult” sparks worries that the new laws help clamp down on critical outlets — When Armenia's government took office after the 2018 Velvet Revolution, it seemed to usher in a new era of press freedom for the former Soviet Republic.
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Politico:
Ruth Shalit Barrett sues The Atlantic for $1M, claiming the magazine defamed her in an editor's note retracting her October 2020 article on niche sports — A writer whose article was controversially retracted by The Atlantic magazine is suing the publication.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Discovery takes a minority stake in OpenAP, a joint venture between Fox, NBCU, and ViacomCBS to define video ad audiences — After making a successful bid to grow its heft in the media business with the looming acquisition of WarnerMedia, Discovery wants to extend its influence in the world of audience measurement and data.
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nexttv.com, Ad Age, Wall Street Journal, PR Newswire, @megancgraham and The Hollywood Reporter
Benjamin Lee / The Guardian:
The Power of the Dog and Succession were the big winners at an unusual Golden Globes ceremony, featuring no stars, audience, or winners to accept the prizes — Jane Campion's Netflix drama and HBO hit triumph as stars distance themselves from Hollywood Foreign Press Association
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Edison Research: the 10 most popular US podcasts in 2020 were seven or more years old on average and none debuted in the last couple of years — Dawn Ostroff wants to find more hits. The chief content officer of Spotify is upset that her company isn't producing enough new popular podcasts …
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@caseynewton
Variety:
Variety appoints Ramin Setoodeh as co-editor-in-chief to work alongside Cynthia Littleton to lead editorial operations in the coming months — Littleton and Setoodeh will co-run the newsroom and oversee editorial activities across all Variety platforms.
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@raminsetoodeh and Hollywood Reporter
Jay Caspian Kang / New York Times:
How Ryan's World, launched in 2015 with a then three-year-old Ryan Kaji, grew into a content behemoth with 10 YouTube channels and deals with Amazon and others — Ten-year-old Ryan Kaji and his family have turned videos of him playing with toys into a multimillion-dollar empire.
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@bradesposito, @ashkan, @mathewi, @nytimes, @gdalmiathinks, @mformahi, @gilasakawa and @simonowens, more at Techmeme »
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
John Pinette, Meta's VP of Global Communications, leaves the company after overseeing its public relations teams since 2019 — John Pinette ran the company's public relations teams since 2019 — Meta Platforms Inc.'s head of communications said he is leaving the company in a Friday afternoon post …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Sinclair's sports group, Diamond Sports, is close to clinching a deal to stream NBA games on a new service to launch in the first half of this year — - Diamond said to be nearing loan for regional sports networks — The struggling subsidiary gets a boost from NBA digital rights
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