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Kevin Rector / Los Angeles Times:
Journalists covering abortion rights protests in Los Angeles on Friday say police used physical force to deny them access, ignoring newly expanded protections — Independent journalist Tina-Desiree Berg was standing on a sidewalk filming the arrest of an abortion rights protester …
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at Chris Licht's political ties and early moves as CNN chairman and CEO, as the longtime ratings obsessive tries to position CNN as above partisanship — In 2010, Chris Licht, then the executive producer of MSNBC's Morning Joe, suffered a brain aneurysm and, as he later put it in a memoir …
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Javier Garza Ramos / Nieman Reports:
A reporter in Mexico describes how “gringo style” shootings, like the random lone shooter events in the US, are covered in Mexico, where they rarely occur — What American gun violence looks like to reporters who have to deal with a very different kind of threat
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Andrew Kersley / Press Gazette:
Analysis: since 2018, UK consumer trust in The Times has dropped from 63% to 43%, while the BBC fell from 75% to 55%, and The Telegraph declined from 55% to 36% — The Times, The Telegraph and the BBC have suffered the biggest drops in trust among UK news media over the past five years, according to one annual survey.
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Sports Business Journal:
Sources: F1 renews its ESPN US media rights deal through 2025, rejecting Amazon and Comcast, for around $75M-$90M per year, up from the current $5M per year — F1 has agreed to renew its rights deal with ESPN through 2025, sources told SBJ. The three-year deal still doesn't have a signed contract …
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Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Source: in February, Meta started an official internal process to shut down CrowdTangle, but paused the plan as the EU's Digital Services Act gained traction — On May 17, as several states held their primary elections, Jesse Littlewood searched the internet using a tool called CrowdTangle …
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Seth Smalley / Poynter:
YouTube faces criticism for a failure to enforce quality standards, a lack of communication, and more during an International Fact-Checking Network conference — The tech giant has been under particular scrutiny since the international fact-checking community sent a critical open letter to its CEO in January
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Reclaim The Net, @poynter, @poynter, MediaPost and icfj.org
Adam Johnson / The Column:
Police PR departments often invite local news to cover training simulations to sell the “community” on the idea that use of force is inevitable and preferable — Technology that allegedly “trains” officers for “split-second” “life or death” decisions is far more about P.R. than preventing violence.
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@drriley_writes, @adamjohnsonnyc and @adamjohnsonnyc
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
PwC M&A survey for media and telecom: deals for the 12 months ending May 15, 2022, totaled 1,014, up 28% YoY, with a record $469B value, but the pace has slowed — Media and telecom M&A activity was lively in the first half of 2022 with deals for the 12 months ending May 15 totaling 1,014 …
ITV News:
Channel 4 plans to broadcast a documentary made by Alison Millar about Lyra McKee, who was shot dead while observing riots in Northern Ireland in April 2019 — Channel 4 has announced a film about the life and death of “trailblazing” investigative journalist Lyra McKee - who was shot dead in 2019 in Londonderry.
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@luighseach, @niscreen, @hotpress, The Irish Sun and Metro.co.uk
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Apple quietly raised the prices for the Apple Music student plan, from $4.99 to $5.99 per month in the US and Canada and from £4.99 to £5.99 per month in the UK — Apple last month quietly raised the price of the Apple Music student plan in several countries such as South Africa …
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Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:
How TikTok is cashing in on its exploding popularity; source: TikTok plans to grow its e-commerce gross merchandise volume to $2B in 2022 and $23B in 2023 — Alyssa McKay used to work part-time at a frozen yogurt store in Portland, Oregon, making minimum wage to cover her college tuition.
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