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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: Substack dropped efforts to raise money, after talks to raise $75M-$100M at a $750M-$1B valuation, during which the company said 2021 revenue was ~$9M — Amid an industrywide downturn, venture investors are preaching austerity and halting new deals, particularly for companies that have spent aggressively on growth.
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The BBC details its budget cuts: laying off up to 1,000 people over the next few years, merging World into News, 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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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
Some US journalists question whether showing more graphic footage would force the public and political leaders to fully confront America's gun violence epidemic — As journalists descend on Uvalde—as they did on Columbine, Newtown, and Parkland—some are questioning whether a more graphic approach …
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Lionsgate misses with Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $929.9M vs. $961M est. and a net loss of $104.6M; Starz global streaming subscribers grew to 24.5M, up 47% YoY — Lionsgate came in below Wall Street expectations for the first three months of the year, but its TV production division again …
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Teresa Carr / Undark Magazine:
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?
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Reuters:
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.
Sports Business Journal:
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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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
The NYT presenting its package on Haiti as a “first” illustrates that the media's definition of a news peg should be expanded beyond uncovering new facts — “Haiti's Lost Billions.” “The Root of Haiti's Misery: Reparations to Enslavers.” “How a French Bank Captured Haiti.”
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Anousha Sakoui / Los Angeles Times:
A cottage industry of legal analysts on social media is exploding during the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial, showing how media coverage of big cases has changed — Emily D. Baker is exasperated. In the penultimate week of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp's defamation trial …
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Tony Webster / Minnesota Reformer:
Minneapolis agrees to pay $600K to settle a lawsuit by freelancer Linda Tirado, who was blinded in one eye by a police projectile while covering 2020 protests — The Minneapolis City Council on Thursday agreed to pay a $600,000 settlement in a lawsuit brought by writer and photojournalist Linda Tirado …
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Reuters:
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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