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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube says it's winding down YouTube Originals after six years and will only fund programs that are part of its Black Voices and YouTube Kids Funds — YouTube is getting out of the business of originals: The Google-owned video giant said it is winding down its original productions team after more than six years.
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
YouTube's global head of original content, Susanne Daniels, is leaving on March 1 after almost seven years — Susanne Daniels is exiting YouTube after nearly seven years at the Google-owned global video-sharing company. The YouTube global head of original content will depart in March.
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David Roeder / Chicago Sun-Times:
Chicago Public Media's board approves the Chicago Sun-Times acquisition, set to close on or about January 31, which will convert the Sun-Times into a nonprofit — The noncash transfer will not be final until contracts are approved, but both media organizations said they hope to close on the deal by the end of the month.
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Influencer and former NBA player Rex Chapman will host a weekly CNN+ show featuring “intimate conversations with athletes, entertainers, and everyday heroes” — Per the WarnerMedia-owned subscription streaming platform, which is set to debut in the first quarter of the year …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
NewsGuard, which rates the reliability of news sources, expects to be profitable in every quarter of 2022 thanks to licensing deals with advertisers and others — New York (CNN Business)NewsGuard, a four-year-old startup that scans the web and rates the reliability of news sources …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Ex-NY Post digital EIC Michelle Gotthelf sues News Corp, NY Post, and two editors, claiming she was fired for alleging ex-EIC Col Allan sexually harassed her — The ousted digital editor claims the Post's former longtime boss sexually propositioned her and later ordered her to scrub a story accusing Donald Trump of rape.
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@onionincunion:
All seven A.V. Club employees in Chicago, who G/O Media told to either move to LA or quit their jobs, choose to take their severance — UPDATE: The seven A.V. Club workers in Chicago have decided to take their union-contract-protected severances rather than move to L.A. without a cost-of-living adjustment. A statement from the union (1/X): https://twitter.com/...
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Markup says it has 30 employees, two newsletters totaling 14K subscribers, and had $6.8M in 2021 revenue, up from $4.2M in 2020, aided by a $2.5M Ford grant — The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that focuses on data-driven tech investigations, had $6.8 million in revenue in 2021 …
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Financial Times:
An in-depth look at Sony's ambition to become the world's most fully integrated entertainment company across movie blockbusters, music catalogs, and PlayStation — The Japanese corporation is on the cusp of full integration but critics say it needs to be wary of distractions like electric vehicles
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
The mission statements and manifestos of journalism startups, from Grid to Puck, promise to remake journalism but fail to articulate a unique message — The entrepreneurial spirit rages beneath the breastbone of your average journalist, rivaled in intensity only by his scorn for his bosses.
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Jem Aswad / Variety:
The Recording Academy reschedules the Grammy Awards to April 3 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas; sources hope for a full show and a live audience — The Grammy Awards will take place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on April 3, Variety has confirmed.
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Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
A look at Serbia's media landscape: opposition candidates get very limited and overwhelmingly negative coverage, independent news channels are blocked, and more — With new, less repressive tactics, countries like Serbia, Poland and Hungary are deploying highly effective tools to skew public opinion.
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