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5:30 PM ET, May 5, 2022

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Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Karine Jean-Pierre to replace Jen Psaki as White House press secretary on May 13, becoming the first Black woman and first openly LGBTQ+ person to hold the job  —  Jen Psaki's deputy will take over her high-profile spot when Psaki departs in the coming weeks, making her the first Black person to hold the job.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Guardian issues new social media guidelines: staff are not expected to have a Twitter presence and shouldn't scoop the website or criticize colleagues  —  The Guardian has issued new social media guidelines warning that staff who engage in public slanging matches with each other on Twitter could face disciplinary action.
Wall Street Journal:
Whistleblowers: Meta deliberately took down Pages for hospitals and other Australian institutions in 2021 as a negotiating tactic over the news bargaining law  —  When Facebook blocked news pages last year to pre-empt Australian legislation that would force it to pay for content …
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
In a town hall, CNN chairman Chris Licht says he does not plan large staff cuts and does plan to retain Chris Wallace and Audie Cornish, who were hired for CNN+  —  Chris Licht, the new head of CNN global, told employees in a town hall on Thursday that he planned to experiment at the crucial prime-time hour this summer.
New York Times:
Elon Musk's hate for ads conflicts with Twitter's business model, as ad execs say they will move spending elsewhere if the company relaxes content moderation  —  Many marketers were already lukewarm on the service.  Now, some may move their money elsewhere if the content moderation policies are relaxed.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
At Digital Content NewFronts, Twitter aimed to convince advertisers their content would be in a brand-safe zone thanks to upcoming premium video partnerships  —  Twitter returned to the Digital Content NewFronts this evening to pitch its upcoming premium video content slate to advertisers, as it had in previous years.
Andrew Kersley / Press Gazette:
Report finds 80% of UK journalists come from professional and upper-class backgrounds, up from 72% in 2016; 42% of the general workforce has that background  —  Some 80% of journalists come from professional and upper class backgrounds according to a new report from the NCTJ …
RTDNA:
Survey of 1,780 US TV stations: 20.4% of news directors said staff were physically attacked in 2021; in top-25 markets, 31% were attacked, down from 39% in 2020  —  More than one in five TV news directors reported there had been an attack on their newsroom employees in 2021 …
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
AMC Networks reports 9.5M subscribers in Q1, up from 9M+ at the end of 2021; net revenue grew 3% YoY to $712M and operating income rose 2.9% YoY to $174M  —  The company, led by interim CEO Matt Blank, posted its quarterly results.  —  AMC Networks, the cable networks and streaming company …
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Researchers say 15+ adtech firms had sufficient data to detect that Gannett provided inaccurate ad auction data to advertisers for nine months but did nothing  —  Firms that facilitate online-ad transactions had enough information to detect error that affected Gannett's systems for over nine months, researchers say
Branko Marcetic / Jacobin:
In the last week, PayPal has abruptly canceled and frozen the funds of independent news outlets Consortium News and MintPress News without explanation  —  Over the past week, PayPal canceled without explanation the accounts of two prominent independent news outlets.
 
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Piers Morgan's flagship show on NewsUK's talkTV had an estimated 62K viewers one week after launch, down from 317K; other shows had zero views during prime time
Janko Roettgers / Protocol:
Cameo lays off 87 staff; source says CTO Rob Post, marketing exec Emily Boschwitz, CPO Nundu Janakiram, and Chief People Officer Melanie Steinbach have gone
A.J. Perez / Front Office Sports:
The New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien says in 2022, the company will insert ads to money-losing The Athletic and create NYT-Athletic subscription bundles
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@wcp:
[Thread] The Washington City Paper produces its final regular print edition after 41 years, available on Friday, as it transitions to a digital-first strategy
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok plans to launch Pulse, its first ad product with revenue sharing, in June 2022, offering US creators and publishers with 100K+ followers a 50/50 split