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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 Company:
The New York Times wins its first Oscar for The Queen of Basketball, which won the 2022 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.
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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Chris Wallace's complaints to Fox News management about Tucker Carlson's January 6 “documentary” show he had decided Fox was becoming irredeemable as a news org — When Chris Wallace resigned from Fox News last December, media observers correctly diagnosed the move's real meaning …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Morning Brew co-founder says the company's daily newsletter has topped 4M subscribers and the business generated ~$50M in 2021 revenue, up from $20M in 2020 — - Morning Brew's primary newsletter has surpassed 4 million subscribers after hitting 3 million just eight months ago.
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The Financial Times launches FT Edit, a £0.99 per month smartphone app offering eight curated articles on weekdays at 8am and select weekend and archive content — The Financial Times has launched FT Edit, a streamlined app it hopes will attract an audience beyond its traditional, professional readers.
New York Times:
Ukraine's Zelensky was interviewed by Russian journalists; Moscow ordered to quash the story, 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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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 between 70 and 100 over 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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Reuters:
Novaya Gazeta says it will not publish until the end of Russia's “special operation” in Ukraine, after Roskomnadzor gave it 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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Bloomberg:
Bloomberg LP suspends operations in Russia and Belarus, cutting off access to products like the terminal and data feed — Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News, suspended its operations in Russia and Belarus following President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A profile of right-wing video service Rumble, which had $6.5M revenue in the first nine months of 2021 and is providing Trump's Truth Social with tech support — The company, supported by Donald Trump, Peter Thiel and other prominent conservatives, wants to help build a “new internet” independent from Silicon Valley's titans.
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
CBS News and The Weather Channel partner to bring Weather Channel correspondents, reporting, mixed reality technology, and more to CBS News programming — Allen Media Group CEO Byron Allen announced the deal on ‘CBS Mornings’ Monday.
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