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Rachel Monroe / New Yorker:
How the staff of Uvalde Leader-News covered the Texas school shooting; the local paper's employees lost neighbors, acquaintances, and a daughter in the shooting — The paper's employees lost neighbors, acquaintances, and a daughter in a school shooting. Then they had to report the story.
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Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Tencent backed out of financing Top Gun, concerned about the CCP's reaction to its pro-US messaging; Chinese investors are steering clear of Hollywood — Tencent Holdings pulled out of financing the film over concerns about Chinese officials' reaction
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Kelsey Weekman / BuzzFeed News:
Celebrities complaining about labels pressuring them to post TikToks is reminiscent of how some artists decades ago said that making MTV videos was demeaning — When Halsey posted on TikTok saying that their record label is making them fake a viral TikTok moment before releasing a song, the internet split into two opposing factions.
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@kelsaywhat, @kelsaywhat, Nylon and Los Angeles Times
Alex Shephard / New Republic:
MSNBC hiring Jen Psaki isn't much better than CBS hiring Trump's ex-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, especially as networks market themselves as bulwarks of truth — When CBS co-president Neeraj Khemlani defended the network's decision to hire former Trump administration official Mick Mulvaney earlier …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Interview with co-CEO Ted Sarandos about Netflix's recent 75% stock drop, backing Dave Chappelle's transgender comedy special, Hollywood schadenfreude, and more — The Netflix executive says he — and the company he helped build — will survive a bout of bad earnings numbers.
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Bloomberg Media and iHeartMedia plan to release five podcasts in 2022 as part of a three-year co-production and distribution deal first announced in May 2021 — Bloomberg Media and iHeartMedia are releasing five podcast shows this year, part of a co-production and distribution podcast deal between …
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@bbgmedia and Inside Radio
Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal:
Report: Google, Bing, and YouTube regularly return China's state media content in top US results about Beijing's human-rights record and the origins of COVID-19 — On issues important to Beijing, official Chinese sources also enjoy strong placement on YouTube and other widely used U.S. services, a new report finds
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Isobel Koshiw / The Guardian:
A look at Ukraine's wartime United News, in which the country's main TV channels broadcast the same content 24/7; some see the unified TV coverage as propaganda — State-backed broadcast has strategic and practical justifications but some see it as dangerous monopoly
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@shaunwalker7, @ikoshiw, @ikoshiw, @ikoshiw, @ikoshiw, @cequirk, @cequirk, EuroFile, @ikoshiw and @risj_oxford
Bassem Mroue / Associated Press:
A Lebanese security chief met US officials in Washington as part of mediation to return journalist Austin Tice, who vanished in Syria in 2012, to his family — BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese security chief has met U.S. officials in Washington as part of mediation between Washington and Damascus …
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@levitt_matt and @demopj
Pew Research Center:
For locally focused US newspapers, weekday circulation fell 40% from 2015 to 2020 and average minutes per website visit fell 13% YoY in Q4 2020 to 1.8 minutes — The transition to digital news consumption has hit the newspaper industry hard in recent years.
Tim Baysinger / Axios:
Omedia projects the global box office will grow nearly 73% YoY to $36B in 2022 and another 23% to $44B in 2023, surpassing the $41.7B made pre-pandemic in 2019 — The theatrical box office will continue its rebound out of the pandemic in 2022 and is expected to surpass its last pre-pandemic year in 2023, according to data from Omedia.
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Cape Gazette:
The Delaware Journalism Collaborative, a statewide partnership of local news organizations and community groups, launches to help address community polarization — News outlets, partners explore solutions through reporting and public conversations — The Local Journalism Initiative …
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