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10:25 PM ET, December 4, 2022

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Shirin Ghaffary / Vox:
Examining the reasoning of journalists who remain on Twitter, like WaPo's Taylor Lorenz and NBC News' Ben Collins, and of those who have left, like Jelani Cobb  —  Under Elon Musk's leadership, journalists have even more of a love-hate relationship with the platform.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Matt Taibbi posts internal Twitter documents showing the company's 2020 debate over the handling of content related to NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story  —  The new disclosures, touted as “The Twitter Files,” were posted in a lengthy Twitter thread by investigative reporter and author Matt Taibbi (and retweeted by Musk).
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Elon Musk thinks the “Twitter Files” show that Twitter staff nefariously helped Joe Biden, but all they show is a team debating a difficult moderation decision  —  Free-speech crusader Elon Musk isn't happy with Twitter's years-old decision to suppress a news story …
Tyler Falk / Current:
A survey of 2,310 US radio stations: white employees made up 75.4% of noncommercial newsrooms in Q4 2021, down from 78.8% YoY, vs. 92.1% of commercial newsrooms  —  A survey tracking workforce diversity in radio and television found that racial diversity has grown among the news staffs of noncommercial radio stations.
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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013  —  Andrew Anglin spent his first day back on Twitter defending Ye's antisemitic rants.  —  Andrew Anglin ― …
Loree Seitz / The Wrap:
Semafor's climate and energy editor Bill Spindle left last week, citing the outlet's “over-dependence on Chevron advertising”  —  Semafor's climate and energy editor Bill Spindle has exited the publication after several months after saying his tenure was “marred by an over-dependence …
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Sarah Kinosian / Reuters:
Sources: El Salvador's president built a propaganda machine with government-linked traditional media plus social media trolls, while attacking independent press  —  President Nayib Bukele has built a communications juggernaut in El Salvador.  Its engine: paid internet trolls whose online attacks …
New York Times:
Sources: Twitter's US ad revenue was 80% below internal expectations for the week of the World Cup's Nov. 20 start, as Twitter keeps missing weekly ad targets  —  Under Elon Musk, the company has cut its financial expectations as some advertisers request discounts and are offered incentives.
Brian Stelter / The Atlantic:
A eulogy for HLN, launched by Ted Turner on New Year's Day 1982 and now effectively closing, made mostly obsolete at a time when anyone can broadcast headlines  —  Media Winter is here once more, and it is getting ugly.  It seems as though every news giant is shrinking toward 2023 through end …
Angela Fu / Poynter:
Gannett's layoffs, affecting ~200 people in its news division, include reporters at the flagship USA Today and producers on regional digital optimization teams  —  Among those affected were reporters at flagship paper USA Today and producers working on Gannett's digital optimization teams.
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
The Washington Post has laid off Sarah Kaufman, one of the last full-time dance critics in the US; as of 2015, there were two full-time critics remaining  —  The Washington Post has laid off Pulitzer Prize winner Sarah L. Kaufman, one of the last full-time dance critics in the country …
 
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Reuters Institute:
Ravish Kumar, a leading TV anchor in India for NDTV, resigns in protest as the Adani Group seems poised to take over the independent news channel
Herb Scribner / Axios:
Filing: Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy in Texas; Jones and Free Speech Systems have been ordered to pay $1.5B in damages to Sandy Hook families
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
The NYT union has sent a letter to the paper's CEO and publisher threatening a daylong walkout on December 8 if they don't come to terms on a new labor contract