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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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.
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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 …
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RTDNA:
Survey of 1,780 US TV stations: 20.4% of news directors said staff had been physically attacked in 2021, rising to 31% in top-25 markets, down from 39% in 2021 — More than one in five TV news directors reported there had been an attack on their newsroom employees in 2021 …
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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 …
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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
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
National Geographic names Nathan Lump as its new editor-in-chief; Lump previously worked for Expedia, Travel + Leisure, and NYT's travel section — The journalist most recently led editorial for Expedia and previously was editor in chief of Travel + Leisure.
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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 — - The Athletic lost $6.8 million in the first two months since it was acquired by The New York Times.
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David Pierce / The Verge:
The New York Times credits Wordle for a huge jump in new subscribers, saying the game “brought an unprecedented tens of millions of new users to The Times”
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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 — Cameo, the celebrity video greetings startup, laid off 87 of staffers Wednesday, a move that CEO Steven Galanis described as “right-sizing.”
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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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