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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Meta eliminated many journalism-adjacent positions as part of its 11K layoffs, including David Grant, The Meta Journalism Project Accelerator's program manager — “Meta had the resources at its peak to do incredible things. Not just the dollars, but the encouragement to think of the best outcome possible …
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
The New York Times' bizarre SBF profile presents the disgraced founder through a gauzy lens, fails to challenge him, and gives him the benefit of the doubt — FTX filed for bankruptcy on Friday, leaving reasonable people to wonder how a cryptocurrency platform founded in 2019 …
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J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:
BuzzFeed reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $103.7M, a $27M net loss, vs. $3.6M YoY, time spent down 32% YoY to 151M hours, and ad revenue flat YoY at $50.4M — Total revenue reached $103.7 million for the quarter, representing a 15 percent year-over-year increase.
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
An interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on expanding Politico to foreign capitals by adding 100-150 staff, advising Elon Musk on Twitter, and more — We are living through the twilight of the press baron. Once, there were conquerors of newspapers, magazines …
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Larry Edelman / The Boston Globe:
The Boston Globe announces NPR SVP for News Nancy Barnes will be its next editor, succeeding Brian McGrory on February 1 to become the first woman in the role — The Boston Globe announced Monday that Nancy Barnes would be its next editor, tapping a deeply experienced journalist …
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Isabel Debre / Associated Press:
Israel says the US DOJ opened an investigation into the fatal shooting of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, calling the probe a “grave mistake” — Israel's Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Monday the U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation …
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: News Corp. executives expect Sunday Times Editor Emma Tucker to replace Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Matt Murray, who took the role in June 2018 — News Corp. executives in London have told associates they expect the editor of the Sunday Times, Emma Tucker, to take the top editorial job at the Wall Street Journal.
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Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Disney plans to air the first two episodes of Andor on Hulu, ABC, FX, and Freeform cable channels starting November 23 as a way to promote Disney+ — Walt Disney Co. will air the first two episodes of its Star Wars TV series Andor on several of its broadcast and cable TV outlets …
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Axios:
Sources: the consortium in exclusive talks to buy Forbes includes investment firms GSV Ventures and SUN Group, in a deal that values Forbes at ~$800M — After a chaotic path ended in a failed SPAC IPO earlier this year, Forbes Media is now in exclusive talks to sell to a consortium of investors …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
David Zaslav says the ad market is weaker than at any point in 2020 and that HBO went from making $2B in 2019 to losing ~$3B in 2021 as content spending surged — - Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav spoke Tuesday at RBC's 2022 Global TIMT Conference in New York.
Jack Mirkinson / Discourse Blog:
CNN's “interview” with Jeff Bezos, where he gave the broad but non-specific promise that he plans to give most of his money to charity, is shameful PR nonsense — CNN's ‘interview’ with Jeff Bezos was shameful PR nonsense. — Let's say you're a billionaire tyrant and the company you founded …
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New York Times:
Iran hired a US private investigator to surveil Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad in a failed 2021 kidnap plot; the investigator helped the FBI instead — The U.S. investigators are hired under false pretenses by authoritarian governments to do their “dirty work,” the F.B.I. says.
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