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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: CNN CEO Chris Licht has finished a six-month business review, as part of a plan to eliminate 1,000+ Warner Bros. Discovery jobs before the end of 2022 — - CNN CEO Chris Licht talked to CNBC about why he took the job, why he thinks some coverage of him has been “painfully inaccurate …
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Semafor:
Sources: former The Hill owner Jimmy Finkelstein says he's raised at least $40M for a new digital news outlet billed as a Washington Post-Daily Mail hybrid — The media entrepreneur Jimmy Finkelstein has taken one step closer to launching a new entrant in the American news landscape …
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The Wire:
The Wire apologizes, saying technical evidence should have been independently verified and that it was deceived “by a member of our Meta investigation team” — Last week, The Wire formally retracted its Meta stories after conducting an internal review of the technical source material used …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The US DOJ formally bans the use of subpoenas, warrants, or court orders to seize reporters' communications records or demand notes or testimony in leak probes — The rule codifies and expands a policy he issued in 2021, after it came to light that the Trump administration had secretly gone …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Similar to its heavy coverage of a migrant caravan in 2018, Fox News has steadily ramped up mentions of crime as the US midterms approach — A few weeks ago, I wrote an article headlined “Crime is surging (in Fox News coverage)." It was a follow-up to an article I'd written a few weeks prior …
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The Texas Tribune, one of the biggest nonprofit US newsrooms, names Sonal Shah as its CEO; The Tribune has 10K+ paying readers and 175K+ newsletter subscribers — Sonal Shah will take over from Evan Smith, who has run the nonprofit news organization since he co-founded it in 2009.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: Bloomberg Media is dropping programmatic ads from its website and apps starting on January 1, 2023, requiring brands to work directly with its media team — Bloomberg Media CEO Scott Havens writes about why it's dropping programmatic advertising at the end of the year:
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Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
A look at Cities 92.9, an Illinois talk radio station pushing election misinformation, run by a QAnon fan who studied journalism at Illinois State University — NORMAL, Ill. — When Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's campaign bus came to town recently, the local conservative talk radio station covered the event …
Peter Kafka / Vox:
Q&A with Semafor EIC Ben Smith on “Semaform”, targeting “the dissatisfied middle”, and rejected ideas like showing an advance copy of an article to its subject — A Q&A with the co-founder of the news startup. — Ben Smith generates attention anywhere he goes.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Research: nearly 3,000 media jobs have been cut in 2022 so far, with 1,100+ coming from the news media industry, including at CNN, BDG, Future, Gannett, and G4 — It's a brutal, fearful time for American media — with companies scrambling to cut costs and secure cash in a scenario reminiscent of the early pandemic.
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta says Apple updated its App Store rules to require IAPs for social media “boosts” to grow its business “while undercutting others in the digital economy” — Just when I thought the relationship between Apple and Meta couldn't get more hostile, here we are.
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Spotify says Apple's behavior is “choking competition” after Apple rejected its proposed audiobook purchasing process three times for breaking App Store rules
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Tom Grundy / Hong Kong Free Press HKFP:
A former South China Morning Post editor says two reporters quit in 2021 after the outlet axed their investigation into China's human rights abuses in Xinjiang — Two reporters quit the South China Morning Post (SCMP) last year after a senior editor axed their three-month investigation …
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@tomashbrook, @rushanabbas and @uyghurproject
Katie Hawkins-Gaar / Nieman Lab:
Spotlight PA, Injustice Watch, and The 19th reduce horse-race election coverage to focus on voters by surveying readers, highlighting judges' records, and more — As the U.S. heads into the 2022 midterm elections, plenty of newsrooms around the country are providing the same sort of coverage they always have.
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@inn, @katiehawk, @terryparrisjr and American Press Institute
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ESPN sells a majority stake in 27-year-old extreme sports franchise X Games to private equity firm MSP Sports; ESPN will remain its US linear broadcast partner — Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. MSP will assume day-to-day operational control of the X Games business, which will spin off from ESPN.
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