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Lucy Craymer / Reuters:
New Zealand plans to introduce legislation requiring companies like Meta and Google to pay local publishers for news, modeled after laws in Australia and Canada — The New Zealand government said it will introduce a law that will require big online digital companies such as Alphabet Inc's …
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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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John Arlidge / The Sunday Times:
An interview with BBC chairman Richard Sharp on the license fee, new forms of funding, moving business teams to Manchester, maintaining “impartiality”, and more — Richard Sharp celebrated the BBC's centennial year not by enjoying newly discovered episodes of Hancock's Half Hour …
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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.
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 ― …
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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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Anthony Crupi / Sportico:
Diamond Sports Group votes to block parent company Sinclair Broadcasting from having any further input into the day-to-day operations of its Bally Sports unit — Just days after taking a $1 billion impairment loss on its troubled Bally Sports unit, the board of Diamond Sports Group has voted …
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Next TV, Business Wire, @novy_williams, Sports Business Journal, @richlightshed, @jesswelman and @bryandfischer
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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The Streamable
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 …
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@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 …
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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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