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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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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 …
Kevin Marks:
Twitter changed how embeds work for deleted tweets, causing blank spaces on websites; Twitter says it is “to better respect” when users deleted their tweets — With all the fuss about Twitter's promised edit button, and how they might design it, we're missing a disturbing development …
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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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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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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 …
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Pinterest will ban ads and posts that feature climate misinformation, as searches about sustainability rise on the service — The virtual pinboard service will remove content that denies climate change after also blocking ads about politics, weight loss and anti-vaccine sentiment.
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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Edo, an ad measurement service for TV and streaming 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
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
VerSe Innovation, the parent company of news aggregator app Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, says it has raised $805M at a valuation of nearly $5B — At a time when a number of startups are finding it difficult to raise capital, VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of news aggregator app Dailyhunt …
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
The NYT buying The Athletic to gain young subscribers puts it in direct competition with local US newspapers, which depend on sports coverage for subscribers — The New York Times is a marvel of journalism. Not coincidentally, it's also a rare journalism business success story.
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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