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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar is leaving on April 8; sources: Warner Discovery CEO David Zaslav and some Discovery executives plan to take over within a week — Executive leaves as Discovery prepares to take over company; CEO shook up entertainment industry during his stint
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Sources: WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group CEO Ann Sarnoff will leave the company as soon as this week as WarnerMedia completes its merger with Discovery — LOS ANGELES — Ann Sarnoff, the chief executive of the WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group, will leave the company …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
LinkedIn plans to add 80 news roles in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia, an expansion that will bring its total number of editors to nearly 200 — Linkedin is tripling the number of editors it employs in the UK as part of wider growth that will see it employ nearly 200 journalists worldwide.
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Variety:
In the last year, at least sixteen women of color have left the BBC's news and D&I departments, due to factors including a glass ceiling and racism — At least 15 women of color have left the BBC in the last year saying they are “exhausted” from fighting a system that …
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Pew Research Center:
Study: the number of statehouse reporters is up 11% since 2014 to 1,761, of which 20% work for nonprofits, up from 6% in 2014, and 48% cover capitols full time — As newspapers employ fewer statehouse reporters, nonprofits are filling much of the void — As newspapers employ fewer …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
iHeartMedia purchases the rights to roughly a dozen NFTs to create the Non-Fun Podcast Network based around characters and voices from prominent NFT collections — iHeartMedia, the holding company of iHeartRadio, is pouring several hundred thousand dollars into purchasing the rights to roughly …
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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Twitter begins “drastically” reducing the reach of Russian government accounts and will remove tweets from government-affiliated accounts with prisoners of war — It'll ‘ask government or state-affiliated media accounts’ to take down pictures featuring prisoners of war
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Substack says users can now produce paid, subscription-based podcasts on its platform and that three Patreon-hit podcasts moved over; Substack takes a 10% cut — And everyone wants something from Daniel Ek — This story is part of a group of stories called — Happy Tuesday, everyone.
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Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
Jami Floyd, the director of New York Public Radio's Race & Justice Unit and the author of 45 WNYC and Gothamist articles retracted for plagiarism, resigns — WNYC staffer Jami Floyd authored 45 articles that were removed from wnyc.org and Gothamist websites last week …
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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Edo, a TV ad measurement service co-founded by actor Edward Norton, raises $80M from Shamrock Capital at a $200M+ pre-money valuation — Company, co-founded by actor Edward Norton, wants to compete with Nielsen by helping advertisers see whether consumers take action after seeing a commercial
Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
An Iran court indicts Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi on a claim he stole the idea for his film, A Hero, from a documentary by one of his former students — An Iran court found evidence the celebrated filmmaker based his new movie on a documentary made by one of his film students.
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Lynette Rice / Deadline:
DailyMailTV, a daily syndicated TV news magazine that Stage 29 Productions launched in 2017 with top stories from DailyMail.com, will end its run this summer — It's official: DailyMailTV, the syndicated show from Stage 29 Productions and syndicated by CBS Media Ventures, is wrapping up this summer.
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