Mediagazer: 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 (Tyler Falk/Current)

10:25 AM ET, December 5, 2022

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Lucy Craymer / Reuters:

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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:

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Warner Music launches three free, ad-supported, and genre-based streaming channels, exclusively on the Roku Channel for three months in the US and Canada — Warner Music Group has punched its way into the free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) segment, with the launch of a trio of genre-based channels exclusively on the Roku Channel.

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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

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Variety:

Netflix plans to release the first three episodes of Netflix's Harry and Meghan docuseries on December 8, followed by the next three on December 15 — Netflix revealed on Monday that the six-part documentary series will premiere in two instalments ahead of Christmas.

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Kate Dwyer / New York Times:

Astra Magazine to shut down after two sell-out issues, highlighting creative freedom and budgets are not enough to save the future of literary journals — The literary journal attracted great names. Its issues sold out. And then it was over — a fate that offers insight into the tenuous place …

Discussion: @jenbenka, @nytimes, @ahablives, @paperhaus, @troyonyango, @_andrewhahn and @mechanicalkurt

France 24:

Turkish journalists and press advocates raise concerns over a media law passed in October that could censor the media and silence dissent ahead of elections — A new law gives Turkey fresh ammunition to censor the media and silence dissent ahead of elections in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans …

Discussion: Bloomberg

Bron Maher / Press Gazette:

John Ryley, head of the UK's Sky News, steps down after 17 years and plans to pursue “projects incompatible with leading a news organization” — Ryley said his departure would allow him to pursue “projects incompatible with leading a news organisation”.

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