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1:35 PM ET, February 23, 2022

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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Boris Johnson says UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has asked Ofcom to review whether RT's news channel license should be suspended  —  U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review of the Russian-backed RT news channel.  —  Addressing the House of Commons on Wednesday …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix is testing Fast Laughs, a stream of short, curated comedy clips, on its TV app in select English-speaking countries  —  Fast Laughs is rolling out to ‘select English-speaking countries’  —  Netflix is testing Fast Laughs, a stream of comedy clips hand-picked by Netflix, on its TV app.
Discussion: TechCrunch, The Streamable and Engadget
Lily Kuo / Washington Post:
As China walks a tightrope over the Ukraine crisis, Beijing-linked Horizon News accidentally posted apparent coverage rules banning posts unfavorable to Russia  —  China did not explicitly endorse Moscow's latest moves toward Ukraine but still recognized on Tuesday what it called Russia's …
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Roku launches Advertising Watermark to help advertisers and publishers verify the authenticity of their video ads and defend against “device spoofing”  —  To reduce advertising fraud in the connected TV (CTV) and streaming businesses, Roku is starting up a new free technology …
Discussion: Next TV, Ad Age, Media Play News and MarTech
Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Condé Nast's Vogue and GQ will make content exclusively for TikTok, including hashtag challenges and print inserts  —  Vogue and GQ will make content exclusively for TikTok, both for their own respective brand channels and in print, under a new deal Condé Nast signed with the social media platform.
Discussion: @markdistef
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
WSJ and Google Ad Manager study finds advertisers that used first-party data in campaigns were 37% more likely to run another campaign  —  The Wall Street Journal welcomes its cookieless future, and advertisers have taken notice.  The publisher, in a case study conducted in partnership …
Discussion: @markstenberg3
The Nation:
The Nation names Bhaskar Sunkara, founder and publisher of Jacobin, as president  —  The founder and publisher of Jacobin to lead publishing and business development for America's leading source of progressive politics and culture.  —  Contact: Caitlin Graf, The Nation, press [at] thenation.com, 212-209-5400
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
GB News will join the BBC, Sky News, and ITN broadcast pool for political coverage from April; GB News currently receives footage later than other broadcasters  —  GB News is joining the BBC, Sky News and ITN's broadcast pool for political coverage ten months after its launch.
Discussion: @mike_fabricant
Sam Kille / Report for America:
Permanent community news funds, formed by community foundations working with local news leaders, are a major new trend for supporting local news  —  READ THE ‘COMMUNITY NEWS FUND’ REPORT  —  Report for America today released a report that identified a major new trend - the creation of …
Discussion: @report4america
 
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Conservative Brief, which employs three writers, has become huge on Facebook, surpassing WaPo and NYT, ostensibly by paying large Pages to share its content
K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Disney EMEA, BBC Studios, and Sony Pictures join the Digital Entertainment Group International trade body; Google and Warner Bros. are already members
Discussion: WORLD SCREEN and Media Play News
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen expands its Media Impact planning tools, adding streaming platform ratings to help advertisers and media buyers plan cross-platform campaigns
Discussion: Variety
Kurt Erickson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Missouri police say a flaw in a state education webpage had gone undetected since 2011, after MO's governor attempted to prosecute a reporter for being a hacker
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
An update on some of the amateur sleuths, including Claude Taylor and Louise Mensch, who built large social media followings with unfounded claims about Trump
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Wall Street Journal:
Mexico's president calls reporters “mercenaries” and asks them to reveal their salaries over investigations of his son's use of an oil executive's $1M residence
Emily Atkin / HEATED:
Emily Atkin, who launched Heated with a $20K Substack advance in 2019, says the climate newsletter is going on hiatus as she takes “a big digital break”
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Working paper: private equity firms, which in 2019 owned 23% of US newspapers, reduced local coverage more than other owners but drove more digital subscribers