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3:55 PM ET, July 21, 2022

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Jon Porter / The Verge:
Facebook splits the Feed on iOS and Android into Home, a TikTok-style tab with recommended content, and Feeds, a chronological tab of followed pages and people  —  While new Feeds tab will show chronological content from pages you actually follow  —  Facebook's almighty News Feed is getting split in two... kind of.
Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
The Atlantic's tech and business workers tell management they plan to form a union with ~130 people in jobs like data analysis, software engineering, and sales  —  Workers are following in the footsteps of their editorial counterparts and asking the media company to recognize the union and bargain a contract.
Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting:
How Industry Dive, which has 26 publications in 23 industry segments and $100M+ in revenue, became profitable, by embracing ads, making smart bets, and more  —  Riches in niches  —  Publishing is often treated as a monolith, but there are many types of publishers with different business models.
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’
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Profile of Vincent Bolloré, dubbed France's Rupert Murdoch, whose €20B conglomerate controls Vivendi, which includes Canal+, CNews, and publisher Hachette  —  The seven-part 2019 American television series “The Loudest Voice” on Roger Ailes, the mastermind behind the rise …
Discussion: @bbgneweconomy
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.
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and others register for a license in Indonesia under which they might have to censor content and hand over users' data  —  Meta, TikTok and Twitter among groups to register for licences under which authorities can censor platforms
 
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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
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
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
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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
Discussion: The Streamable
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
The Guardian:
The Guardian reports £255.8M revenue for the year ending April 3, 2022, up 13% YoY, and £6.7M net operating inflow; digital revenue surpassed print, a first
Matthew Doig:
A Los Angeles Times editor who edited the story about a USC dean's drug use refutes claims made in a book by a reporter about editors trying to kill the story
 

 
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Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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