Mediagazer: Q&A with David Skok, founder of Canadian tech and business news site The Logic, which launched in 2018 and will soon employ 23 staff, on growth plans and more (William Turvill/Press Gazette)

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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:

Sources detail how Tucker Carlson's embrace of Trumpism as the foundation of his show, unlike Hannity's embrace of Trump himself, would reshape Fox News — Tucker Carlson had a problem. — After years in the cable wilderness, he had made a triumphant return to prime time.

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At the WHCD, President Biden reaffirmed the role of the free press, thanked reporters for covering Russia's war in Ukraine, and memorialized fallen journalists — President Joe Biden used Saturday night's return of the White House Correspondents' Dinner to reaffirm the role of the free press …

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

Q&A with David Skok, founder of Canadian tech and business news site The Logic, which launched in 2018 and will soon employ 23 staff, on growth plans and more — David Skok, a former newspaper and broadcast journalist, founded subscription news startup The Logic in 2018 with CA$300,000 …

Discussion: @pressgazette, @pressgazette, @pressgazette, @jessicalessin and @wturvill

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A look at the 2021 compensation for the top paid execs at AT&T, Netflix, Disney, ViacomCBS, Fox, Comcast, Discovery, and Endeavor, as lavish pay packages return — It was a year of plague, mergers and mega-paydays for the moguls who run some of the largest media companies in the world.

Hilary Niles / Center for Public Integrity:

A look at how Native American journalists report on tribal affairs despite the absence of press freedom and the ubiquity of tribal government ownership of media — Lori Edmo just wanted to find out how her tribe was spending federal COVID-19 relief money. As a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes …

Discussion: @shmohawk_ca, @publicintegrity and @publicintegrity

Ax Sharma / Wired:

Hollywood's fight against VPN providers like ExpressVPN now goes beyond piracy, as a recent lawsuit alleges VPNs enable crimes like hacking, murder, and more — Beyond accusations of encouraging copyright infringement, film companies have begun accusing VPNs of enabling a slew of illegal activity.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

SEC filing: Amazon values MGM's film and TV content library at $3.4B, and its “goodwill” value, referring to intangible assets like brand reputation, at $4.9B — Amazon had pegged its deal for MGM, which it closed last month, as worth around $8.5 billion.

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Max Tani / Politico:

Some White House correspondents complain that Biden Administration storylines, while important and substantive, are “boring” and don't create star journalists — Washington reporters have long considered the role of White House correspondent to be the crown jewel of American political journalism.

Ryan Barwick / Marketing Brew:

Despite blocking Russian state-funded media from ad revenue, Google continued to serve ads alongside stories from those same publishers on Russia's Mail.ru — Google has blocked state-owned Russian media from monetizing via ads. But articles from those publishers have been appearing on Mail.ru, a popular Russian media platform.

Discussion: @ryanbarwick, @ryanbarwick, @craigsilverman, @marketingbrew and @joshsternberg

Reuters:

Sources: Elon Musk has a new Twitter CEO lined up and offered monetizing ideas, like charging websites for quoting or embedding tweets from verified accounts — Elon Musk told banks that agreed to help fund his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) that he could crack down on executive …

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Lachlan Markay / Axios:

The FEC unanimously rejects a complaint against Courier Newsroom that claimed the network of progressive news sites had to register as a political committee — The Federal Election Commission has unanimously rejected allegations that a network of progressive news sites had operated …

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