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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 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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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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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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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.


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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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 …


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.


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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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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A look at Ukraine's News United, a 24/7 news show created post-invasion by the country's four main TV channels, and made mandatory for small channel news slots — Working from secret studios, Marichka Padalko provides a familiar face and keeps the nation updated


Disney says Florida's “Don't Say Gay” bill “should never have passed and should never have been signed into law” after Governor Ron DeSantis signs it into law — A company rep says the legislation “should never have passed and should never have been signed into law.”