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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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Munsif Vengattil / Reuters:
Sources: India-based short video app ShareChat's parent company Mohalla Tech raises ~$300M from Google, Times Group, and Temasek Holdings at a ~$5B valuation — The parent company of India's ShareChat has raised nearly $300 million in fresh funding from Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
An interview with co-CEO Ted Sarandos on 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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Andrew Kersley / Press Gazette:
NPR SVP Anya Grundmann says the outlet has 100M+ podcast downloads per month and denies reports of a “catastrophic” staff exodus, saying the turnover rate is 5% — A vice president at US public radio broadcaster NPR has hit out at accusations of a “catastrophic” …
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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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Neal Justin / Star Tribune:
Minnesota Public Radio says it is closing down the award-winning program APM Reports, which specialized in long-form, investigative journalism — The program tackled a wide range of topics in its nearly seven-year run. — TEXT SIZE — MORE — “APM Reports,” the award-winning program, has been shut down.
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Cat Zhang / Pitchfork:
How musicians like Weezer's Rivers Cuomo and fans use Discord: artists share ideas, host parties, and engage with fans, who help with moderation and other tasks — Originally launched as a messaging app for gamers, the platform has become an intimate place for artists and fans to connect and build community.
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Shaun Walker / The Guardian:
Interview with Viktor Muchnik, who closed down his Siberian TV station TV2, which had been blocked by Russia amid strict war coverage laws, and left for Armenia — When journalists faced jail for reporting on Ukraine, Viktor Muchnik closed down his Siberian TV station and left for Armenia
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@shaunwalker7, @siberian_times, @bbcwillvernon and @goldentent
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The Financial Times rebrands its How To Spend It magazine as HTSI, with the meaning of the “S” open to interpretation, such as “save”, as inequality rises — Newspaper says possible definitions of renamed HTSI include ‘how to save it’ as cost of living crisis bites
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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
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.
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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@alexanderrusso, @yeselson, @elainejgodfrey, @patcaldwell, @newrepublic and @newrepublic
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