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Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Fox News names Jesse Watters as the permanent host of its 7PM opinion show after a year of rotating guest hosts — Fox News announced Monday that Jesse Watters will be the permanent host of the network's 7 p.m. ET hour, which will be re-named Jesse Watters Primetime beginning January 24.
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Axel Springer names Goli Sheikholeslami as CEO of Politico Media; Sheikholeslami previously served as the president and CEO of WNYC — It is the first major move by the German media giant since it purchased the Virginia-based political publication. — Axel Springer has tapped Goli Sheikholeslami …
Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ names Internews Europe CEO Jodie Ginsberg as its CEO, succeeding Joel Simon, who stepped down at the end of 2021 after leading the organization for 15 years — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today named Jodie Ginsberg as its new President. Ginsberg will succeed Joel Simon …
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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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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Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Joe Biden has held fewer news conferences and given fewer interviews than his five immediate predecessors after nearly one year in office — WASHINGTON (AP) — In what's become a familiar scene, President Joe Biden lingered after delivering a recent speech on the pandemic as reporters fired a barrage of questions.
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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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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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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Symone Sanders, the former chief spokeswoman for Vice President Kamala Harris, to join MSNBC as an anchor and will host a new weekend program — Ms. Sanders, 32, will host a weekend show on the cable network, one of the first big programming moves by MSNBC's president, Rashida Jones.
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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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Times Higher Education:
Times Higher Education acquires US-based Inside Higher Ed and says they will have a combined audience of more than 50M annually — Leading providers of university insights and data will reach combined audience of more than 50 million annually — Times Higher Education has acquired …
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Inside Higher Ed, Press Gazette, PR Newswire, @timeshighered, @phil_baty and @chavergalthe
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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