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Chicago Sun Times:
The Chicago Sun-Times, which became a nonprofit newsroom in January 2022, drops its paywall and launches a donation-based digital membership program — We're dropping our paywall and making it free to read the news — but we're still counting on your support.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Publications owned by Alden Global Capital plan to stop endorsing US candidates in presidential, senate, and gubernatorial elections in their opinion pages — The change will be announced in an editorial set to run in the company's newspapers as early as Friday.
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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Shopify settles a lawsuit with five major education publishers that claimed the platform ignored notices of users selling pirated textbooks and other materials — Shopify Inc has settled allegations by a group of major educational publishers that the Canadian e-commerce company enables piracy …
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Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal:
Internal ByteDance report: revenue grew nearly 80% YoY to $61.7B in 2021 but operating losses more than tripled YoY from $2.14B to $7.15B due to growth spending — Social-media giant saw its operating losses more than triple last year to above $7 billion — TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. saw …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: the Kremlin told some state media to start admitting failings in the Ukraine invasion, worried that its upbeat propaganda was fueling people's doubts — With its troops losing ground almost daily, the Kremlin has told some of its state media to start admitting some of the failings …
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Pew: 6% of US adults regularly get news on BitChute, Gab, Gettr, Parler, Rumble, Telegram, or Truth Social, but no one site drew over 2% of those seeking news — The appeal of platforms like Parler, Truth Social and Telegram is another symptom of the partisan divide in media, according to the Pew Research Center.
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K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Prince Harry, Elton John, and others sue the Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers for allegedly hiring people to bug homes, access bank accounts, and more — Prince Harry has launched yet another lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of British tabloids the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Paramount programming executive David Nevins plans to leave at the end of 2022; the former Showtime CEO also held top positions at CBS, Viacom, and Paramount+ — 'I'm going to really think through my options before I make a move,' Mr. Nevins said of future plans
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
How media outlets harvest social media users' newsworthy images from natural disasters and more; Reuters has a Twitter account dedicated to pursuing photos — When Beth Booker posted a photo of her mother's house flooded by Hurricane Ian last week, messages of concern and sympathy came pouring in.
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Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
Philo, a live TV streaming service offering 60+ channels for $25/month, rolls out the first version of its app for Samsung smart TV models released since 2018 — Philo, the skinny bundle streamer that includes more than 60 popular television channels for $25 per month, is becoming more accessible for Smart TV users.
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Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Former reality TV star Bethenny Frankel sues TikTok, saying the platform failed to crack down on scam ads that used her videos to promote counterfeit products — The lawsuit highlights another gap in regulation of an online industry that has grown rapidly in recent years
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Sources: Facebook's two-year-old UK News tab is curated mostly by freelancers from Axel Springer's Upday who are paid £200-£350 per day and can't work elsewhere — The Facebook News tab was launched in Britain with much fanfare last year as part of a $1bn global programme from the tech giant to support publishers.
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