Mediagazer: Sources: some WaPo opinion writers were taken aback when their new editor David Shipley recently suggested publishing editorials as Instagram comments or haikus (Max Tani/Semafor)

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Twitter reinstates Trump's account, after Elon Musk ran a Twitter poll where 51.8% of 15M+ users voted yes on reinstatement, saying “the people have spoken” — Donald Trump on Saturday said he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority voted in favor …

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[Thread] Elon Musk says “new Twitter policy” will deboost and demonetize “negative/hate tweets”, reinstates Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and Babylon Bee — New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won't find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.

James B. Stewart / New York Times:

Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry — At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules.

Reuters:

Sources: Simon & Schuster owner Paramount Global declines to join Penguin Random House in appealing the ruling blocking their merger; deal will likely collapse — Book-publishing powerhouse Simon & Schuster's owner will let its $2.2 billion sale to Penguin Random House collapse on Monday …

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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

The BBC's Qatar World Cup coverage ignored the opening ceremony, instead criticizing the treatment of migrant workers, corruption, and homosexuality bans — Coverage kicks off with focus on treatment of migrant workers and gay people, and corruption at Fifa

Max Tani / Semafor:

Meduza has millions of readers in Russia despite being blocked there, after boosting its Telegram following and using censorship-resistant tech in its app — The biggest stories in media usually follow the money. Today, Max looks at one of the biggest shifts in the business of media …

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Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:

The ordeal of an University of Arizona student journalist highlights the growing threat of online harassment to young journalists, driving some of them out — Young reporters are forced to contend with waves of abuse and harassment, driving some out of the industry before they even get started.

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

A look at things journalism could lose if Twitter dies: real-time feedback on stories, news outlets being publicly called out, DMs as a reporting tool, and more — Goodbye to screenshotted best bits, DMs, “that tweet should be a story”... “If Twitter goes away my job would actually be really different,” I told my husband this week.

Freddie deBoer:
Twitter is probably not going anywhere, and writers bemoaning its demise are overestimating the importance it has to their work and careers

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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:

Robin Wheeler, Twitter's head of ad sales, seems to have left the company, a week after Elon Musk reportedly convinced her to stay; sources say she was fired — Robin Wheeler, Twitter's head of ad sales, seems to have left the company yet again, just over a week after Elon Musk reportedly had to convince her not to resign.

Paul Tassi / Forbes:

Twitter's automated copyright strike system appears to be broken, as users upload full movies; some accounts with viral tweets were later suspended — While Twitter, the website, remains online and has not simply collapsed after the vast majority of workers were fired or resigned under Elon Musk …

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Press Gazette:

Associated Newspapers will pay “substantial damages” to Koo Stark, an ex-girlfriend of Prince Andrew, for calling her a “porn star” in a 2019 Daily Mail article — A former girlfriend of the Duke of York will receive “substantial damages” from the publisher …

Max Tani / Semafor:

Sources: some WaPo opinion writers were taken aback when their new editor David Shipley recently suggested publishing editorials as Instagram comments or haikus — Washington Post opinion writers have mixed opinions of their new boss, David Shipley, after he delivered a mandate to write less …

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