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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Roblox plans to add age guidelines to its games and announces a new in-game ads system for brands to advertise via interactive billboards, posters, and more — And it's bringing digital billboards and age guidelines to do it — Roblox rode a wave of pandemic-era growth to a seven-fold value increase …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
An interview with Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner about the end of the magazine era, not reading Rolling Stone anymore, how his son Gus saved it, and more — The Rolling Stone founder talks about LSD, not reading the magazine anymore and how the Stones now look like “Lord of the Rings” characters onstage.
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@markfollman, @rjcc, @maureendowd, @jimlaporta, @jackshafer and @jeffgoodell
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
How colleagues of murdered Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German staked out his alleged killer while continuing to report on the story — Two members of Jeff German's four-member team told The Daily Beast how they found out about their colleague's death—along with how they knew to look at Robert Telles.
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Over 500 US-based Condé Nast workers at 11 publications win union recognition, under the NewsGuild of New York; magazines include Vanity Fair, Allure, and Vogue — Condé Nast employees won union recognition Friday from their company, making workers at iconic …
Steven Perlberg / Insider:
The Information CEO Jessica Lessin says revenue grew 35% YoY in H1 2022 and the outlet has 360,000+ “active readers”, including its free newsletters audience — - The Information is one of the rare digital-media outlets that have remained independent.
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@edyson, @jfberke, @rafat, @perlberg, @nmcalone, @lucas_shaw, @lessin, Talking Biz News and Vanity Fair
Madison Hahamy / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the tensions between the staff at the Toledo Blade and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and their owners, who are subjects of over a dozen NLRB complaints — On February 9, 2019, at about 10 pm near the end of a Saturday night shift, John Robinson Block, one of the owners of the Toledo Blade …
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@cjr, @cpotterpgh, @mhahamy and @bladeguild
A.J. Katz / Adweek:
Charter's Spectrum Networks launches Spectrum News CTV, a TV app with original content and news from its 30+ local TV news outlets, free to Spectrum customers — Spectrum Networks today announced the launch of a Spectrum News CTV app for Roku and Apple TV, a compliment to the Spectrum News mobile app the company launched in 2020.
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Charter, @charlierybak, @tvgrimreaper and Light Reading
Janko Roettgers / Protocol:
Kantar: political campaigns are expected to spend $1.2B on streaming ads in the 2022 US midterms as streaming increasingly reaches a big share of the electorate — The week after Labor Day traditionally marks the beginning of the fall election season, with campaigns rushing to get their message …
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@jank0
Nathan Grayson / Washington Post:
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins announces that from now on, he will simultaneously stream on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter — The mainstays of Twitch's ‘Fortnite’ era recently made big moves. The receptions were quite different.
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@vahn16, @vahn16, @ninja, @willoremus, @vahn16, @ninja, @ninja, PC Gamer and The Jacob Wolf Report, more at Techmeme »
Sean Holstege / Arizona Republic:
A federal judge sides with the ACLU and media organizations, granting a preliminary injunction blocking a new Arizona law that would limit the filming of police — A federal judge in Arizona has, for now, halted the enforcement of a new state law that would ban people filming police at short range.
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@anthony, @raystern, @eff, @oshadavidson, @joajacobo, 12news.com, Associated Press and The Hill
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
California's budget includes $25M for a local news fellowship, starting in May 2023, with stipends distributed via UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism — The budget passed in California this week includes $25 million worth of help for local news, which will be distributed via UC …
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UC Berkeley Graduate School …, San Francisco Chronicle, @goanand, @goanand, @goanand, @goanand, @goanand, @goanand, @giselilla, @goanand, @jayrosen_nyu, @matthewfoldi, @mattdpearce, @tonybiasotti, @mattdpearce, @indira_l, @ckrewson, @carrielozano, @goanand, @steve_glazer, @awinston, @lpandell, @dangillmor, @lizzyhazeltine, @vwpickard, @ezraromero, @michaelbolden, @jayrosen_nyu and @emilybell
NBC Chicago:
A Republican PAC sends mailers to Illinois voters that are styled as newspapers with fake names like the “Chicago City Wire” and the “DuPage Policy Journal” — A conservative group that is behind a recent series of television advertisements critical of Gov. J.B. Pritzker …
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