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A profile of Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on his career, decisions to buy Politico and Insider, the impossibility of claiming pure neutrality, and more — Mathias Döpfner has global ambitions for what he calls a more ‘nonpartisan’ kind of journalism — even as his own politics are hard to pin down
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Memo: Disney-owned National Geographic magazine, which has ~125 editorial staff, laid off six of its top editors last week, three months after naming a new EIC — National Geographic magazine, the venerable journal of science, history and the natural world, laid off six of its top editors …
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Chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili settles a defamation lawsuit against Netflix over a line in The Queen's Gambit final episode saying she had “never faced men” — The fictional series had named Nona Gaprindashvili, a pioneering real-life chess champion, and falsely claimed she had “never faced men.”
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@eriqgardner, The A.V. Club, @chesscomlive, ComingSoon.net, IndieWire, Deadline, The Wrap and Variety


New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss appoints Michelle Donelan as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport; Donelan once worked for the WWE — New U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss has appointed Michelle Donelan as the new secretary of state for culture.
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Deadline, Press Gazette, Columbia Journalism Review, NME, NME, Mediaite and Politico
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Yahoo acquires The Factual and plans to integrate its AI system for rating the credibility of news sources into Yahoo News while licensing it to other companies — Yahoo has acquired The Factual, a company that uses algorithms to rate the credibility of news sources, Yahoo president and general manager Matt Sanchez told Axios.
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@jlanzone, @brianprovost, @megdunk, Media Voices, @alex, @librarythingtim, @gintautasd, @rafat, @arifcrafiq, @davidclinchnews, @sarafischer and MediaPost


A book excerpt details how YouTube's love affair with PewDiePie soured in 2017, before he stopped pushing boundaries and signed a livestreaming deal in 2020 — The Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit focused on antisemitism, received an unusual invitation from YouTube in early 2017: come meet our biggest influencer.
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@mhbergen, @mhbergen and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
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Real Life, a magazine founded in June 2016 and funded by Snap, ceases publication immediately due to a lack of funding — Real Life no longer has funding, and is ceasing publication indefinitely. We thank all of our contributors and readers. Good night 💚 https://reallifemag.com/ https://twitter.com/...
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CNN hires John Miller, a former TV correspondent who also had two long stints with the NYPD, to serve as its chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst — Miller, who also worked at ABC News and for the FBI, is one of Chris Licht's first on-air hires at CNN.


Source: Hong Kong Journalists Association President Ronson Chan, who was set to begin a Reuters Institute fellowship in September, was arrested on Wednesday — PAY ATTENTION: You can save a live of girl at risk. Donate to Legit Charity on Patreon. Your support matters!
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Bloomberg and @jerometaylor


Gulf Arab states demand that Netflix remove all content deemed to violate “Islamic and societal values and principles”, including content made for children — Gulf states have demanded that Netflix remove all content deemed to violate “Islamic and societal values and principles”, Saudi media report.
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Reuters, Financial Times, Light Reading, Al Jazeera, Variety, @chrislikesdinos and Middle East Eye


Ad targeting and big TV ad budgets are to blame for repetitive advertising on streaming services, despite evidence repeated ads make people less likely to buy — Ads are fine, but can I get more than one? — For the last few months, Parks & Recreation has been my go-to background show.
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@michellemanafy, @dannygroner, @pierce, @robblackwellab, @mattrly and @simonowens


Some Wikipedia editors in Russia have been doxxed, threatened, and arrested for not supporting Russia's war in Ukraine; some now edit less and others have quit — One Friday in March, not long after Russia invaded Ukraine, Mikhail, a Russia-based Wikipedia editor, opened the Telegram app to discover that he had been doxxed.
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@carljackmiller, @lizzadwoskin, @jshermcyber, @restofworld, @mashaborak and Numlock News