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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Stephen Hayes, The Weekly Standard's former EIC who broke ties with Fox to protest Tucker Carlson's January 6 special, joins NBC News — Stephen Hayes, the conservative political analyst who raised eyebrows in November when he took to The New York Times to announce his breaking ties …
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Reuters:
Meta says it has paused new users from joining its social media tracking tool CrowdTangle as it works “through some staffing constraints” — Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) has paused new users from joining its social media tracking tool CrowdTangle due to staffing constraints.
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Chris Eggertsen / Billboard:
Joni Mitchell pulls her music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young, saying “irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives” — “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” Mitchell wrote on her official website Friday.
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Internal messages detail Spotify's lax health content policy; the company told staff multiple Joe Rogan podcast episodes “didn't meet the threshold for removal”
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Pigeon 605, which sells ads and sponsored posts, emails news to 4K of 200K residents in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, based on interest topics users pick — Here's a fun one. Did you know Paul Reuter, who would go on to found Reuters, initially used pigeons to fly stock prices and other bits of news between Aachen and Brussels?
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J. Clara Chan / Hollywood Reporter:
Podcast network Lemonada Media, which grew its annual revenue from $1.5M in 2020 to over $5M in 2021 and reaches 2M+ listeners per month, raises an $8M Series A — The latest fundraising round was led by BDMI, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann.
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@heymadisonwells, @aslavitt and Lemonada Media
Stefanie Murray / Center for Cooperative Media:
A look at Ad Lab, which launched last year as an advertising network of 16 independent media organizations in New Jersey with a shared sales representative — The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University has served as a central connection point, a hub, for New Jersey journalists for 10 years.
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@elzbthtilis, @stefaniemurray, @mitrakalita and American Press Institute
James Hale / Tubefilter:
YouTuber Hank Green compares TikTok's creator fund, which pays creators less as more creators join, unfavorably to YouTube, which pays 55% of ad revenue — In 2020, TikTok established a creator fund that distributes $200 million annually to creators based in the U.S.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Salt Lake Tribune tells staffers to hire and expense services to scrub their personal info from the internet, after threats followed a pandemic editorial — The Salt Lake Tribune alerted police to threats that the newspaper received after publishing a Jan. 15 editorial that ripped state leaders …
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@joshuahol, @patbagley, Media Nation, @nickparkerstet, @deborahblum, @dabeard and @oliverdarcy
Joanne Kenen / Politico:
Some experts say David Leonhardt, author of the influential NYT newsletter “The Morning” underestimates and underplays COVID-19's risks by cherry-picking data — THE NIGHTLY READS ‘THE MORNING’ — With 5 million readers, David Leonhardt, the author of The New York Times …
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J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:
Services revenue for Apple, which includes Apple TV+, Apple Music, the App Store, and iCloud, brought in $19.5B in Q1, up from $15.8B a year ago — The tech giant reported a total of $123.9 billion in revenue, while Wall Street analysts expected the tech giant to make $118.3 billion.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Hearst Newspapers claims 300K digital-only subscribers, up 50% YoY, of which 140K are the San Francisco Chronicle's, as it plans a shared product and data hub — Heart's newspapers represent a sort of counterpoint to the perception that the industry is all about financial distress and contraction.
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@risj_oxford, @medici1, @caseyseiler, @timafranklin, @poynter and @timothyorourke
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
A US judge refuses to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by a Georgian chess master against Netflix over a mention of her in an episode of The Queen's Gambit — A judge on Thursday refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Georgian chess master who alleged that she was defamed in an episode of the Netflix series “The Queen's Gambit.”
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@jenshahade, New York Post, The Guardian, SlashFilm, The A.V. Club and The Wrap
Vipal Monga / Wall Street Journal:
Shopify denies copyright infringement claims from publishers and says court is the wrong venue to force changes in copyright laws that shield tech companies — E-commerce company says it isn't liable for copyright infringement by sellers; has responded to takedown requests
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