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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:

Twitter agrees to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk” for $54.20 per share in cash; the ~$44B deal requires shareholder and regulatory approval — - Twitter's board accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to buy the social media company and take it private, the company confirmed.

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Brooke Singman / Fox News:

Trump says that, regardless of Elon Musk's Twitter purchase, “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth”, whose stock closed down 12.9% on Monday — Trump said a Musk Twitter takeover would be a positive development, but he will stay with his own platform

The Verge:

Elon Musk says he wants to improve Twitter by “making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans” — Elon Musk will buy Twitter for $45.5 billion — Twitter has accepted Elon Musk's offer to purchase the company for $45.5 billion …

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Alex Sherman / CNBC:

Sources: rival strategies for CNN+, combined with unexpected events like Jeff Zucker's resignation and the Discovery merger, fueled the service's rapid demise — Chris Licht wasn't supposed to start his new job as CNN's chief until May. — But on Thursday he found himself addressing …

Helen Davidson / The Guardian:

Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club scraps the Human Rights Press Awards days before its plan to announce the winners, citing national security law fears — Foreign Correspondent's Club's decision sparks outrage from journalists and resignations from press freedom committee

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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

Guardian, Financial Times, and Mirror journalists were excluded from the UK Home Secretary's trip to Rwanda, where she signed a controversial asylum seeker deal — Journalists from the Guardian, Financial Times and Mirror were allegedly blocked from joining Home Secretary Priti Patel's trip to Rwanda this month.

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

Sources: Netflix staff morale is down amid its declining stock price, subscriber losses, and an engineering restructuring to create “junior” and “senior” levels — As Netflix shares plunge to their lowest point in five years, the company risks losing its most valuable resource: its star employees.

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Tim Peterson / Digiday:

Roku partners with Analytic Partners, Ipsos, IRI, and Nielsen to provide more ad data for marketing mix modeling and help it better compete with traditional TV — To catalyze the shift of TV ad dollars to streaming will require not only proof of streaming's performance but evidence of what makes it perform.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Toni Reid joins YouTube as VP of product management to oversee Shorts, Gaming, livestreaming, and community products, after 24 years at Amazon — Toni Reid, after 24 years at Amazon, is joining YouTube as VP of product management to lead the video platform's Emerging Experiences and Community team.

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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

Joe Kahn's openness to criticism can help The New York Times, which hasn't had an ombudsman since 2017, rethink its approach to politics and government coverage — I know him. Here's why I think he might be the man for this perilous moment. — Unlike The Washington Post …

Sky News:

The UK's Commons Speaker summons Mail on Sunday's editor over an article citing MPs saying Labour leader Angela Rayner distracted Boris Johnson with her legs — Boris Johnson said he deplored the article about Labour's deputy leader and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the “misogynist” culture at Westminster must change.

Josh Ye / Reuters:

Sources: Tencent-controlled Chinese video game streaming service Huya, which rivals DouYu, plans to lay off hundreds of staff; Huya had 2,075 employees in 2020 — Chinese video game streaming site Huya (HUYA.N) has started laying off staff, three sources close to the matter said …

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Robin Wigglesworth / Financial Times:
Analysis: Bloomberg Terminal had a 32.5% share of market data industry in 2021, with its revenue up 5.2% to $11.6B; Refinitiv had a 19.7% share

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Leon Gettler / The Conversation:
Investigation: in the past two years, regional Australia saw 100+ out of 435 newspapers cease printing, comprising 68% of the country's 182 news “contractions”

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David Zurawik / CNN:
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
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