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Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova were killed in the incident that injured Fox correspondent Benjamin Hall — New York (CNN Business)Two journalists were killed while reporting in Ukraine on Monday, including Pierre Zakrzewski, a longtime Fox News photojournalist.
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Insider EIC Nicholas Carlson earns $600K per year plus an annual $600K bonus, last recorded in 2019, per a leaked salary document for all 640 editorial staffers — In late January, Insider's Global Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Carlson announced a new series on Twitter called “Salary Journeys.”
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Some Disney staffers plan a series of walkouts to protest what they see as Disney's insufficient support of LGBTQ+ employees after Florida's Don't Say Gay bill — The week of digital walkouts begins today — In the days since The Walt Disney Company first came under fire for giving money …
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Nearly 80 former and current BuzzFeed staff file arbitration claims saying they were illegally shortchanged in its IPO and seek damages estimated at over $8.7M — The group is asking for compensatory damages estimated at more than $4.6 million. — More than 40 former and current employees …
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Sources: two British publishers have removed references to Taiwan and other banned topics in books intended for western readers so they can be printed in China — References to Taiwan, Hong Kong and other subjects deemed sensitive by Beijing are excised — Two British publishers …
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Mediaset, the Italian broadcaster that rebranded as MediaForEurope last year, and offers to buy Spain's leading private free-TV player Mediaset Espana for €780M — The expected move comes after Milan-based Mediaset last year moved its legal headquarters to the Netherlands …


Detroit's Outlier Media, a text message-based news service, is combining with Detour Detroit, a newsletter startup aimed at millennials — Two women-led journalism organizations in Detroit — Outlier Media and Detour Detroit — are combining under the Outlier umbrella, the companies announced Tuesday.
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The South China Morning Post spins off Artifact Labs to turn content from its 118-year-old archives into NFTs, to be led by Gary Liu after SCMP finds a new CEO — The South China Morning Post will spin off an independent venture to turn historical art, photographs and content …
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Source: AT&T's Xandr will continue as OANN's sole ad vendor through 2024 despite DirecTV dropping the network next month as the two deals were separate — AT&T's financial relationship with One America News is deeper than previously known and will continue even after DirecTV drops …
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Libel law in Sweden helped stifle its #MeToo movement: one woman was convicted in 2019 for naming an alleged abuser and faces trial again for writing a memoir — AS FLIGHT SK946 rounded the southern tip of Greenland, with her husband and 2-year-old son quietly sleeping next to her, Cissi Wallin felt her resolve begin to harden.
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Q&A with The Financial Times chief commercial officer Jon Slade about its paywall that turns 20 years old in June, plans to retain its 1M subscribers, and more — To have a successful subscription business, a publisher needs to prioritize readers over advertisers, especially …
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Local newsletter network 6AM City is now in 24 cities and has 1M subscribers; COO says a newsletter launch costs $250K-300K with a 75% profit margin by year 3 — After expanding to an extra 16 cities last summer, 6-year-old hyper-local newsletter publisher 6AM City has seen exponential subscriber growth …
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A Russian court fines Marina Ovsyannikova ~$280 for her anti-war video statement before her on-air protest; she was held without legal counsel for 12 hours — Fine of about £215 is relatively light sentence for protest that shocked Russian TV viewers and earned plaudits from western leaders
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Marina Ovsyannikova, editor of Russian state TV network Channel One, interrupted its evening broadcast with an anti-war sign and was subsequently arrested
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