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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Newsmax condemns Lara Logan's antisemitic statements and QAnon tropes made on Eric Bolling's primetime program: “We have no plans to interview her again” — “Newsmax condemns in the strongest terms the reprehensible statements made by Lara Logan,” the network said in a statement.
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Laura Wagner / Defector:
Semafor wants to tackle polarization using a “revolutionary” article template, but “Semaform” is a basic copy of what already exists, plus patronizing subheads — All around the world, and especially in the United States, widening economic inequality …
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Sources: Puck, which is approaching 20K paid subscribers, recently held talks with potential investors with a goal of raising ~$15M at a $75M+ valuation — The humble email newsletter, which became a star in its own right, appears headed back to earth. — Meta, which owns Facebook, is killing Bulletin, its newsletter product.
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
A deep dive into the fight between Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis over the “don't say gay” bill and how it delayed the move of thousands of Disney jobs to Florida — In supporting a bill that critics called 'don't say gay,' Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis compares his attack …
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@sshawfl, @pulmyears, @lauraapollo, @annaforflorida, @adamweinstein, @froomkin, @nikkibarnesfl, @theresamlewis and Fox News
Miklos Bolza / AAP:
An Australian judge declines to throw out Crikey's public interest defense in a defamation lawsuit by Lachlan Murdoch; a trial is scheduled for March 27, 2023 — Bids by media mogul Lachlan Murdoch and Australian news publication Crikey to strip down each others' pleadings have failed amid a bitter defamation dispute.
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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Snap reports Q3 revenue up 6% YoY to $1.13B, vs. $1.14B est., DAUs up 19% YoY to 363M, vs. 358.2M est., a $360M net loss, up from $72M YoY; stock is down 25%+ — - Snap beat analysts' expectations on earnings per share but missed on revenue. — The company's board authorized a stock repurchase program of up to $500 million.
Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
Google now lets users disable targeted ads without breaking useful features by having to turn off settings like Web & App Activity and YouTube History — In a major fix, Google's own privacy settings will no longer disable crucial features of its apps. — Alerts
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Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Study finds the number of push alerts sent by publishers was 2% higher in 2021 than in 2019 and 28% higher than in 2018; 3% were opened at time of sending — The instant traffic hit from push alerts means that most publishers are now using them every day, regardless of whether the content …
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Media Voices, Nieman Lab and MediaPost
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
YouTube announces YouTube Premium's first major price hike, increasing the family plan from $17.99/month to $22.99/month, or $29.99/month in the App Store — YouTube Premium is getting its first major price hike. The service will now charge $22.99 per month for its family plan.
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The Streamable, Deadline, Engadget, TechCrunch, @artemr, @sub8u, @nexusben, @androidpolice, Android Authority, Android Police, IMore and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Jon Lafayette / Next TV:
Tastemade names Evan Bregman as its general manager of streaming and launches new streaming channel Tastemade Home on Amazon Freevee, Tubi, and Sling TV — Evan Bregman named general manager of streaming — Lifestyle content company Tastemade said it launched a new streaming channel …
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The Streamable, Tubefilter, Adweek, Tastemade and Media Play News
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
In Spain, 10 of the top 14 daily original news podcasts on iVoox and Apple Podcasts are produced by Spanish news outlets and eight launched in 2021 or 2022 — In 2015, students at what's now the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism set out to solve a few different problems in Spanish-language podcasting.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Survey: 52% of US respondents think advertising should be news outlets' main source of funding, 26% have ever paid for news or donated money to news orgs — About a quarter of Americans have ever paid for news directly. Those who have are more likely to make over $150,000 a year.
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