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BBC details its budget cuts: laying off up to 1,000 people over the next few years, merging BBC News with BBC World, making CBBC and BBC 4 online-only, and more — The plan focuses on creating a modern, digital-led and streamlined organisation that drives the most value from the licence fee and delivers more for audiences
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The UK launches a review of the BBC focused on impartiality and staff diversity and asks it to aim for 25% of its staff to be from low socioeconomic backgrounds — The British government asked the BBC to aim for one in four of its staff to be from low socio-economic backgrounds as it launched …
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How a 2019 joint investigation by the San Antonio Express-News and the Houston Chronicle led to the disclosure of sex abuse by Southern Baptist church leaders — A 2019 investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News prompted this week's massive disclosure about church leaders implicated in sex abuse cases.
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Sources: the NFL plans to launch its own streaming service, NFL Plus, in July 2022; the centerpiece will be live games on phones and tablets for ~$5 per month — Today in Unpacks: SBJ's Ben Fischer with the latest from the NFL owners meetings in Atlanta. — PGA Championship finale lower than Phil's win in 2021
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The Daily Telegraph reports 740K subscribers, on track to hit 1M by the end of 2023, as 2021 revenue grew 4% YoY to £245M and profit jumped 25% YoY to £33.3M — Telegraph Media Group Ltd Chief Executive Officer Nick Hugh is counting on Silicon Valley to pay the British newspaper for content …
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The Online News Association's 3M Truth in Science Award raises ethical questions as 3M, the sponsor, has a history of lying about its scientific findings — Does the ONA's “3M Truth in Science Award” imply that journalists and chemical companies are interested in telling the same story?


Google starts rolling out ads in YouTube Shorts globally and says advertisers will be able to make their video ads on Shorts more shoppable later in 2022 — Google is starting to gradually roll out ads in YouTube Shorts around the world, the company announced at its Marketing Live event this week.
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Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news outlet that covers education at the local level, raises $3.1M to permanently launch Votebeat, a newsroom for covering voting locally — Chalkbeat, the nonprofit news outlet that covers education at the local level, has raised $3.1 million to permanently launch …
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A Q&A with Justin Peden, a 20-year-old Alabama college student who uses OSINT to document the war in Ukraine through his popular Twitter account, The Intel Crab — Justin Peden, a 20-year-old Alabama college student, runs one of the most-followed Twitter accounts documenting the war in Ukraine.


Capital Cities Communications CEO Thomas S. Murphy, who bought ABC for $3.5B in 1985 and sold the combined company to Disney for $19B in 1995, dies at 96 — As the head of Capital Cities Communications, he engineered the acquisition of the TV giant. He later sold the company to Disney, at a huge profit.
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An interview with Novaya Gazeta's UK correspondent Evgeniya Dillendorf on the Russian media, why BBC in Russia is “not as influential as it could be”, and more — Russian independent media failed to gain wider public trust in the country because it did not try …
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Russia's foreign ministry says it told YouTube that every time it blocks a weekly briefing the country will expel an American journalist or outlet — Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday that reporters from Western countries will be expelled from Russia if YouTube (GOOGL.O) blocks access to its spokeswoman's briefings.
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