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11:30 AM ET, April 7, 2022

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Steven Perlberg / Insider:
Memo: NYT's Dean Baquet says Twitter presence is optional, urges staff to “meaningfully reduce” time on Twitter, and bars criticism of colleagues on Twitter  —  - NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet said in a memo that Twitter is now “purely optional” for staffers.
Greg Evans / Deadline:
Media critic Eric Boehlert, who wrote for Press Run, Media Matters for America, Salon, Rolling Stone, and Billboard, dies in a bike accident at 57  —  Eric Boehlert, a media critic devoted to calling out right-wing misinformation through his writing at Media Matters for America, Salon …
Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
A parody criticizes Substack's VP of comms after she said Twitter staff worried about Elon Musk “pushing for less regulated speech” should not move to Substack  —  Free speech means I'm allowed to do this  —  Hello, welcome.  I'm a “VP” ("vice president") of “Comms” ("communications") at the newsletter company.
Variety:
Source: JB Perrette will run Discovery's streaming businesses and Kathleen Finch will oversee its cable networks, except HBO and CNN, after the merger  —  Zaslav, as longtime observers predicted, has opted to have a direct-report relationship with the leaders of the businesses …
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J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nine top WarnerMedia executives, including HBO Max chief Andy Forssell, will exit the company, ahead of the merger with Discovery, expected to close on Friday
Sara Fischer / Axios:
First Look Media, parent company of The Intercept, is laying off 20 people, according to a note to staff from CEO Michael Bloom and a source  —  First Look Media, the parent company to The Intercept, is laying off 20 people, according to a note to staff obtained by Axios and a source familiar with the situation.
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Le Monde launches an English-language edition; the outlet has 425K digital subscribers and is aiming for 1M in the next 2-3 years, with 25% reading in English  —  French newspaper Le Monde is launching an English version of its website on Thursday to win over international subscribers …
Discussion: Press Gazette and @atbwebb
Peter Kafka / Vox:
How The New York Times tries to find new kinds of subscribers as its audience ages and how that effort threatens local papers  —  The paper of record's subscriber base isn't getting any younger.  Maybe a $600 million deal will help.  —  The New York Times is a marvel of journalism.
Kevin Marks:
Twitter quietly changed how deleted tweet embeds work, showing blank embeds on websites; Twitter says it is “to better respect” when users delete their tweets  —  With all the fuss about Twitter's promised edit button, and how they might design it, we're missing a disturbing development …
Reuters:
Mexico's president says the government will channel a quarter of its publicity budget, about $37M, into health insurance and pensions for poorer journalists  —  President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday said his government would channel a quarter of its publicity budget into paying …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Nielsen: as of February 2022, the US had over 817K unique program titles across traditional TV and streaming services, up 26% from December 2019  —  Feeling swamped by the deluge of TV and streaming choices available at the touch of a button?  You're not alone.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Pinterest announces a comprehensive policy to ban ads and posts that feature climate misinformation, the first major online platform to do so  —  Pinterest announced today it's becoming the first major digital platform to introduce a comprehensive misinformation policy designed to combat false …
 
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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
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
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