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7:50 PM ET, February 21, 2022

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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
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.
Knight Foundation:
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
James Fallows / Breaking the News:
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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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Dean Baquet is unable to acknowledge major flaws undermining his newsroom, casting himself as a savior of journalism against Twitter critics and young staffers
Timothy McLaughlin / The Atlantic:
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.
Andrew Kersley / Press Gazette:
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 …
Discussion: abc.org.uk
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
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.
Discussion: The Guardian, OCCRP and Euractiv
Helen Davidson / The Guardian:
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
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
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.
Bloomberg:
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. …
Discussion: @pranavmukul
Wall Street Journal:
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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Walter Cronkite School of Journalism …:
Digital media executive Sree Sreenivasan joins Arizona State University to lead CronkitePro, an education program for journalism and comms professionals
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists should tell their audiences that the media itself is in the crossfire of an information war, amid repeated alarms over a Russian invasion of Ukraine
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James Hibberd / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix announces four comedy specials to be hosted and produced by Dave Chappelle, with a focus on other veteran comedians
Harold Brubaker / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Philadelphia NPR station WHYY has had 49% turnover since January 2021 as staff complain about poor communication, organization, and focus on short news pieces