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Polk Awards: The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The New Yorker win two awards each; WSJ's Facebook Files wins the business reporting prize — The Times was honored for coverage that revealed a plot behind the murder of the Haitian president and for investigations on the toll of America's air war in the Middle East.
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Knight Foundation will invest $3.2M over three years to help 26 Black-owned media outlets become financially sustainable — With Knight's commitment of over $4 million, legacy publishers and startup networks will become more financially sustainable to better serve communities of color
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After Dean Baquet dismissed criticism from “unnuanced voices on Twitter”, The New York Times urgently needs to re-hire a public editor to avoid future missteps — For the New York Times, that means a public editor. — This post started out several days ago as a follow-up to …
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Dean Baquet is unable to acknowledge major flaws undermining his newsroom, casting himself as a savior of journalism against Twitter critics and young staffers
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Profile of Ronson Chan, chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association and an editor of Stand News, which closed after two editors were charged with sedition — In the summer of 2019, Ronson Chan, then an editor for the independent news outlet Stand News, took a delayed honeymoon to Germany with his wife.
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@stand_with_hk, @jeffreygoldberg, @tmclaughlin3, @tmclaughlin3 and @theatlantic


ABC report: The Economist's digital subscribers grew 14% YoY to 995,228 in 2021, accounting for nearly half of all digital magazine subscriptions in the UK — The Economist retained its spot as the UK magazine with the largest digital edition circulation, reaching nearly one million subscribers in 2021 …


After an acrimonious departure from GB News, Andrew Neil will host a 10-week show on Channel 4; Neil once described C4 as the “broadcasting arm of the Guardian” — Live programme is Neil's first major return to broadcasting following departure from GB News


Swiss outlets were excluded from an investigation, involving 47 publications, into Credit Suisse to protect them from the vague wording of a banking secrecy law — Switzerland-based news organisations were excluded from the Suisse Secrets investigation into Credit Suisse's banking practices over fears of punitive legal punishment.
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Foreign Correspondents' Club of China criticizes reporting conditions at the Winter Olympics, saying reporters were tailed and manhandled despite IOC assurances — Foreign Correspondents' Club of China says reporters tailed and manhandled by security despite assurances from Games officials
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Sources: CNN probe found that Allison Gollust, then a top marketing exec, passed along Gov. Andrew Cuomo's preferred topics to producers before a 2020 interview — An internal investigation found that a top executive, Allison Gollust, had extensive communications with then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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Interview with Luca Sofri, founder of Italy's Il Post, an outlet that is member- and ad-funded like the Guardian, with 50K members and a €400K profit in 2020 — Luca Sofri, the founder of Italy's Il Post news website, told Press Gazette how, 12 years after launch …
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Sources: Reliance and Viacom are in talks to add Lupa and Comcast to a consortium bid for Indian Premier League TV telecast, expected to cross $5.3B — Mukesh Ambani's conglomerate is bringing together a consortium aiming to outbid entertainment giants Amazon.com Inc. …
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How advertisers are dealing with Meta's ad price increases prompted by Apple's ATT changes, with some shifting their ad budgets to Google, Amazon, and TikTok — Privacy features prompt e-commerce businesses to slash ad spending; ‘Apple has changed the game’ — Facebook was long one of the surest bets in digital advertising.
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