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David Pierce / The Verge:
An interview with YouTube Shorts Director of Product Management Todd Sherman on UI challenges as YouTube rolls out the TikTok competitor to its TV apps — YouTube Shorts is working. That much Todd Sherman knows for sure. Sherman, the product manager behind YouTube's endless-scrolling …
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Axios, YouTube Official Blog, Next TV, The Streamable, MIT Technology Review, Adweek, @stokel, Deadline, @nealmohan, @kantrowitz, Tubefilter, @jank0, @susanwojcicki, @dcseifert, @gregfinn, AdExchanger, @alexptachick, @tdd, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, CNET, Variety, 9to5Google, The Hollywood Reporter and YouTube Viewers on YouTube, more at Techmeme »
Marisa Sarnoff / Law & Crime:
Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy loses his defamation lawsuit against Insider over articles accusing him of violent sexual misconduct — The founder of a website known for crass and degrading content that often veers into harassment, racism, and misogyny has lost his defamation claim …
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@jayshams, Washington Post, @klasfeldreports, @bgrueskin, Sportico, Awful Announcing, @davidfolkenflik, @be_d, @aaschapiro, @jakelahut, New York Post, @melkorkalicea, @oneunderscore__, @mjnblack, @nichcarlson, @stoolpresidente, @phil_lewis_, @jason_kint, @mccannsportslaw, @gregbensinger, @rach_greenspan, @bobbypotus and Barrett Media
Steven Perlberg / Insider:
Bloomberg says it won't pay for staff's Twitter verification and CNN says it's “highly unlikely”; Puck says the cost is an extension of its marketing budget — - Twitter is planning to require users to pay to keep their verification. — Insider asked 14 newsrooms whether …
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Los Angeles Times, @maxwelltani, Press Gazette, Mediaite and CNET
Billy Perrigo / TIME:
Q&A with Mastodon founder and lead developer Eugen Rochko on how decentralized social media servers mitigate hateful speech, why he built the service, and more — As Twitter changed hands at the end of October, another very similar social media site was experiencing something of an influx.
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New York Times, The Wrap, MIT Technology Review, Vanity Fair, TechCrunch, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Slate, @allisonlcarter, @mathewi, @byajperez, @mattdpearce, Insider, @bydavidgardner, @chriscuomo, The Unraveling, @philthatremains, @redsteeze, Al Jazeera, Forbes, Fortune, BleepingComputer, @rachelmetz, @rachelmetz, @sethabramson, New Republic, @profcarroll, @stopfundinghate, Pinky's Linkies, Harry's Last Stand Newsletter and Associated Press
Robert P. Baird / Columbia Journalism Review:
A profile of liberal magazine The American Prospect and David Dayen, who helped grow its readership by nearly 50% since taking over as executive editor in 2019 — How The American Prospect became the magazine of the moment — At the end of the eighties, the left wing of the Democratic Party was in bad shape.
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@austinahlman, @alex_sammon, @ryanlcooper, @ddayen, @rmc031, @bobbybaird and bookforum.com
Wall Street Journal:
Time names Forbes COO Jessica Sibley as its CEO, replacing Edward Felsenthal, who will remain EIC of the outlet and become executive chairman of the company — The publisher of Time magazine has been expanding its operations as it seeks to diversity from its print business
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TIME, The Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, @daniel_eckler, The Wrap, MediaPost and Talking Biz News
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: The Recount has ~12 staffers left after October's cuts, as the outlet attempts a sale for a nominal sum after losing $10M on $1M in revenue in 2021 — Around a dozen staffers are left at The Recount, a video news startup that launched in 2018, after the company's latest round of cuts last month …
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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
An interview with former White House press secretary Jen Psaki about shifting her career into TV news, launching her own show on Peacock in 2023, and more — The ex-White House press secretary will be breaking down the midterms Tuesday night in the MSNBC studio and has been sounding out Mika …
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@vanityfair, @vanityfair, @seungminkim, @vanityfair and The Post Millennial
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A profile of Molly Jong-Fast, who became a liberal media star by amassing 1M Twitter followers and joined Vanity Fair as a special correspondent on November 3 — She wasn't a political expert. But her Trump-era angst found a following among Democrats — and even the White House is interested.
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@mikiebarb, @aaronjmate, @ggreenwald, @maxblumenthal, @johnanzo, @neilmcmahon, @davmicrot, @mollyjongfast, @taylorlorenz, @peterhotez, @adrienneelrod, @amy__bailey, @dcopaken, @katierogers, @lrozen, @cheeseheadlucy, @randy_gage, @ejeancarroll, @aaron_renn, @gtconway3d, @tarapalmeri, @anniekarni, @georgehahn, @moveincircles, @samuelmoyn, Talking Biz News, @kirstenpowers, @katiephang, @thehowie, @gabehudson and bookforum.com
Max Tani / Semafor:
MSNBC removing Tiffany Cross demonstrates the tension between delivering a progressive point of view to its liberal audience while avoiding bombast and snark — MSNBC's decision to part ways with its top-rated weekend anchor came after an escalating internal conflict.
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@tiffanydcross, New York Post, Fox News, @maxwelltani, HuffPost, @alexi, @chrislhayes, @owillis, @abdallah_fayyad, @maxwelltani, The Daily Beast, TheBlaze, Poynter, @jbenton and Barrett Media
A.J. Katz / Adweek:
Paramount names Megan Marcus as its VP of podcast editorial, where she will oversee CBS News' slate of podcasts — CBS News has named Megan Marcus vp of podcast editorial at Paramount where she will oversee content for CBS News' slate of podcasts. — In this new role, Marcus will oversee …
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Variety, Inside Radio and Barrett Media
Jerusalem Post:
Israeli journalist Rina Matzliach, a Meet the Press anchor on the N12 channel, resigns after 40 years, saying freedom of the press is at risk in the country — Matzliach urged journalists to “to protect the freedom of the press and freedom of expression.” — Israeli journalist Rina …