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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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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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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Audie Cornish, who previously hosted NPR's All Things Considered, will join CNN to host a weekly program on CNN+ and a new podcast — NPR veteran Audie Cornish is joining CNN to host a weekly program on its soon-to-launch streaming service, CNN Plus, as well as a new podcast.
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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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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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.
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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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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Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Jason Kilar says HBO Max “broke through” in 2021 and WarnerMedia will spend $18B+ on content in 2022; Disney and Netflix are expected to spend $33B+ and $17B+ — WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar vows to spend $18bn on content in 2022 to build on subscriber growth
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