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Interviews with 30+ people about CNN tumult reveal a new claim of sexual assault against Chris Cuomo while at ABC and details about Jeff Zucker's power collapse — The network's top-rated host and its president both were forced out, following ethical lapses, an office romance and a letter from a lawyer for “Jane Doe.”
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar says CNN CMO Allison Gollust has resigned after a company probe found violations of policies by her, Jeff Zucker, and Chris Cuomo — Allison Gollust and former CNN boss Jeff Zucker have said they failed to disclose a consensual romantic relationship to the company
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Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Google plans to bring Privacy Sandbox to Android, preserving its Ad ID system for two years, and says it'll be less disruptive than ATT for advertisers and devs — It says it will give other companies plenty of time to adapt to changes to its Android software. Similar changes made by Apple affected big internet companies.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Sarah Palin loses defamation suit against the NYT as jury finds there was insufficient evidence to prove the newspaper defamed her — The verdict came a day after the judge said that he planned to dismiss the case, ruling that Ms. Palin's legal team had failed to prove that the newspaper defamed her.
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Jane Croft / Financial Times:
UK Supreme Court rules that suspects in a criminal investigation have the right not to be named by the media until charged, rejecting Bloomberg's appeal — Supreme Court decision will have far-reaching implications for British media — Bloomberg has lost a privacy case at the UK's highest court …
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Staff memo: ViacomCBS renames itself as Paramount; shares will trade on Nasdaq starting Thursday as PARAA, PARA, and PARAP — Bob Bakish and Shari Redstone announced the news in a memo to staff ahead of the company's presentation to investors. — The “ViacomCBS” name is being retired.
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Mason Walker / Pew Research Center:
Survey finds 23% of US adults get news from podcasts at least sometimes and 56% never do; 33% of adults ages 18 to 29 at least sometimes get news from podcasts — The controversy around Spotify and its podcaster Joe Rogan has drawn new attention to the medium at a time when podcasting …
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
AMC Networks ended 2021 with 9M+ subscribers and forecasts 20-25M by 2025; revenue rose 9% to a record $3.1B in 2021 as operating income rose 11% to $490M — AMC Networks reported its fourth-quarter 2021 earnings Wednesday, revealing it had reached more than 9 million paid streaming subscribers by the end of 2021.
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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Facebook rebrands News Feed to just Feed after more than 15 years — The ‘News Feed’ is now just the ‘Feed’ — Meta is changing the name of Facebook's News Feed, the primary part of the service that users scroll through to see what their friends and family have shared.
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Spotter, which buys YouTubers' back catalogs, raises a $200M Series D at a $1.7B valuation led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, bringing its total funding to $755M — How do YouTubers make a living? Usually, through a mixture of merch sales, membership programs or maybe even a custom product.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
A Russia-controlled court in Crimea sentences RFE/RL freelancer Vladyslav Yesypenko to six years in prison for allegedly possessing and transporting explosives — SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — A Russia-imposed court in Ukraine's Crimea has sentenced RFE/RL freelance correspondent Vladyslav Yesypenko …
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Dennis Romero / NBC News:
P.J. O'Rourke, a former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, author, satirist, and libertarian-leaning commentator, dies at 74 from complications of lung cancer — P.J. O'Rourke, an influential baby boomer satirist and commentator who defied the counterculture's leftward politics, died Tuesday morning.
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Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
SoundCloud's 2020 fiscal report shows €193.5M revenue, up 31% YoY, with gross profit rising 53% to €61.1M and operating losses dropping 41% to €15.4M — SoundCloud's last 12 months have been nothing short of transformative. — In March 2021, the company launched its pioneering …
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