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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Coda wins three Oscars, including Best Picture, giving Apple its first Oscar and making Apple TV+ the first streaming service to win the awards' highest honor — Apple made history by nabbing Hollywood's most coveted honor, as “CODA” won the Oscar for best picture at Sunday's Academy Awards.
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The New York Times wins its first Oscar for The Queen of Basketball, which won the Academy Award in the Documentary Short Subject category — The Op-Doc “The Queen of Basketball” won in the Documentary Short Subject category at the 2022 Academy Awards. — The Op-Doc “The Queen of Basketball” …
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The Streamable, The Wrap, @nytimespr, @yara_bishara, @lindsaycrouse, @lindsaycrouse, @patrickhealynyt and Engadget
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Interview with Chris Wallace on leaving Fox News, whose questioning of the truth became “unsustainable”, expanding beyond politics on his CNN+ show, and more — As he starts a new streaming show at CNN, the longtime TV anchor reflects on his decision to leave Fox News after 18 years.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Morning Brew co-founder says its daily newsletter has 4M subscribers and the company generated about $50M in revenue during 2021, up from $20M in 2020 — - Morning Brew's primary newsletter has surpassed 4 million subscribers after hitting 3 million just eight months ago.
New York Times:
Ukraine's Zelensky was interviewed by Russian journalists; Moscow ordered the story quashed, but Meduza and others based outside Russia have since published it — It was a remarkable moment in the war in Europe: President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine gave a 90-minute-long Zoom interview …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The FT launches FT Edit, a £0.99 per month smartphone edition offering eight curated articles at 8am on weekdays and select weekend content — The Financial Times has launched FT Edit, a streamlined app it hopes will attract an audience beyond its traditional, professional readers.
Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
A profile of Penske Media CEO Jay Penske, who has become “the Rupert Murdoch of entertainment publications” as the owner of Variety, THR, Deadline, and more — A quiet Hollywood power broker with a famous name goes on a buying spree that has given him Rolling Stone, South by Southwest and a private island.
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Steven Perlberg / Insider:
Crypto news outlet The Block hires Bloomberg News editor Sarah Kopit as its EIC and plans to grow its newsroom from ~20 to around 100 in the next two years — - The Block has hired longtime Bloomberg News editor Sarah Kopit as editor-in-chief. — The crypto news site wants to grow …
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@mdudas, @fishkiller, @mpmcsweeney, @bradmichelson and @perlberg
Jacob Granger / Journalism.co.uk:
The EJC launches the Solutions Journalism Accelerator, a three-year program providing $4M+ in grants and mentorship to media organizations across Europe — As news organisations wrestle with distrusting audiences and a problem-centric news agenda, a new accelerator offers European media …
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@ninafasciaux, @fexi, @ejcnet, @jinnovationcity, @edjnet, @verapeneda and European Journalism Centre
Reuters:
Novaya Gazeta says it will suspend operations until the end of Russia's “special operation” in Ukraine, after receiving a second warning about its reporting — Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, whose editor Dmitry Muratov was a co-winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize …
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Justin Carter / Gizmodo:
Crunchyroll says next week it will end its ad-supported simulcast of new anime episodes for free users, after its acquisition by Sony's Funimation last August — Starting with next week's slate of spring anime, you'll have to fork over cash. — Alerts — For anime fans …
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Raksha Kumar / Reuters Institute for the Study …:
Q&A with Malaysiakini co-founder and CEO Premesh Chandran, who stepped down in February, on independent media in Malaysia, replicating its business model, more — “Technology and advertising have to be a primary element,” says the Malaysian outlet's founder in his first interview after stepping down
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