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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
BBC agrees to pay damages to a former nanny after false allegations she had an affair with Prince Charles were used to get the Princess Diana Panorama interview — False claims that Tiggy Legge-Bourke had affair with Prince Charles ‘were likely spread to help secure exclusive’
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Ofcom report finds that 29% of UK teenagers use Instagram for news, 28% use TikTok and YouTube, 24% use BBC One and Two, down from 45% five years ago — Instagram, TikTok and YouTube are now the preferred mode of news consumption for British teenagers, a report by U.K. media regulator Ofcom has found.
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Reuters, The Guardian, Press Gazette, Times of India, The Independent and Broadband TV News, more at Techmeme »
Ryan Barwick / Marketing Brew:
Research: Reddit's brand-safety approach to monetization is cautious, labeling all subreddits as no_ads until a manual human review applies some_ads or all_ads — New research may pull back the curtain on Reddit's seemingly inconsistent approach to monetizing its communities.
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Social Media Today, more at Techmeme »
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Taliban agents detained and threatened Lynne O'Donnell, a veteran war reporter from Australia, and forced her to tweet retractions for prior accurate reporting — A veteran war reporter in Afghanistan was told she would go to jail if she didn't tweet an apology for her reporting.
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The Guardian, @katie_robertson, @nialakhalil, @shaharzadakbar, @lynnekodonnell, Lynne O'Donnell's Newsletter and Mediaite
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Memo: CNN CEO Chris Licht elevates Virginia Moseley to EVP of US-based editorial, in charge of newsgathering for TV and digital, and lays out other execs' roles — CNN's new chief expanded the news outlet's leadership team Wednesday, keeping some senior executives in place while adding new ones to the mix.
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New York Times, Poynter, @iwmf, @raju, @benmullin, @sarafischer, @lacaldwelldc, @philiprucker, @mdornic, @edokeefe, @kriscoratti, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times and The Hollywood Reporter
Ashley Wong / New York Times:
Hell Gate, a New York City news outlet owned by five journalists, launches a subscription for $6.99 per month or $70 per year to keep the website afloat — After years of being put through the wringer of New York City media, five journalists created Hell Gate, the blog-style news site run on their terms.
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Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
A US House panel votes 53-2 to advance the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, which would affect ad targeting and how tech companies use people's data — A House panel advanced a comprehensive data privacy bill in a 53-2 bipartisan vote Wednesday, pushing forward legislation that aims …
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MediaPost, @commonsense, Free Press and Marketing Dive, more at Techmeme »
Roshni Neslage / American Journalism Project:
American Journalism Project will give $3.15M to support three nonprofits: The City, ICT, and Verite, a sister newsroom of Mississippi Today launching this fall — Support will help nonprofits serving New Orleans, New York City and Native communities build sustainable growth models …
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@craignewmark, @indiancountry, Indian Country Today, @mstodaynews, @peterlattman, @tmorris504, @thecityny, @sarabethberman and @vegalteno
Knight Foundation:
The Knight Foundation awards $20K grants to 25 newsrooms to upgrade their digital publishing tools; the program has given $1.5M to 75 newsrooms over three years — Twenty-five newsrooms will receive $20,000 grants to deploy an improved publishing solution, in third year of Knight initiative in partnership with News Revenue Hub
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@coachgharvey, @knightfdn, @knightfdn, @planetdetroit, @sfpublicpress and @berkeleyside
Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia:
Baidu's video streaming service iQiyi signs a content deal with Douyin, TikTok's sister app in China, ending a long dispute over alleged copyright infringement — Douyin users will be able to use iQiyi content to make their own short videos — Under a new agreement, users of short video platform Douyin …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix ends customer service help via its @Netflixhelps Twitter account, established in February 2009, and says it will focus on helping via its own platforms — Netflix has quietly pulled the plug on its popular Twitter customer-help account after 13-plus years and more than 900,000 tweets, Variety has confirmed.
Josh Dzieza / The Verge:
A look at GPT-3-powered fiction writing tools like Sudowrite, which proposes plot twists, rewrites in specific tones, suggests metaphors, and more — On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series …
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