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Jared Schwartz / New York Post:
Longtime soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl dies in Doha, Qatar, while covering the Argentina-Netherlands World Cup quarterfinal — Influential U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl died in Qatar while covering the World Cup, his brother announced. He was 49. — While covering Argentina's quarterfinal win …
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Russell Lewis / NPR:
Longtime sports writer Grant Wahl dies at 48 in Doha, Qatar, after collapsing while covering the Argentina-Netherlands quarterfinal at the 2022 FIFA World Cup — Longtime soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl died on Friday while covering the Argentina-Netherlands quarterfinal at the 2022 World Cup in Doha, Qatar.
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Vox Media will no longer license its Chorus content management system to publishers; the existing six clients will have 18 months to migrate off the platform — Publishers using the platform will have 18 months to migrate their content — The digital media company Vox Media …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: LLCs tied to the CEO of crypto news site The Block secretly received $43M in Alameda loans, used in part to buy and run the site; CEO has now resigned — The Block, a media company that says it covers crypto news independently, has been secretly funded for over a year with money funneled …
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says she took the screenshots of internal systems that Bari Weiss shared and that “reporters were not accessing user DMs” — Elon Musk is giving outside writers unprecedented access to internal Twitter Inc. information …
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Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau:
[Thread] The “bombshell” Twitter Files show the value of skeptical editors, who strengthen stories by poking holes in reporting that uses cherry-picked examples — Can think of several moments when as a young reporter I thought I had a bombshell story and then it became a merely average story or not news at all after an editor poked at it with skeptical questions. Beware media folks who think they're too big-brained for editorial standards. https://twitter.com/...
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Molly White / @molly0xfff:
[Thread] Bloomberg, Dow Jones, The Financial Times, and The New York Times intervene in FTX's bankruptcy case, seeking to unseal customer and creditor details — A group of media outlets—Bloomberg, the NYT, Dow Jones & Co, and the Financial Times—just filed a motion to intervene in the FTX case, requesting that FTX be required to unseal customer and creditor lists.
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Bloomberg, The Block, @jwverret, @molly0xfff, @molly0xfff and CourtListener
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Source: Twitter is pitching last-minute heavily discounted ad packages for World Cup content, which may signal ad revenue trouble for the Super Bowl and Oscars — The platform's World Cup troubles with brands could create worries about other real-time marketing events like the Super Bowl
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Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Twitter emails advertisers about plans to launch controls to prevent their ads from showing up next to tweets with certain keywords, as soon as next week
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Brad Pitt sells a 60% stake in Plan B Entertainment to French conglomerate Mediawan, valuing his production company in the low hundreds of millions — - Brad Pitt has sold a 60% stake in his production company, Plan B, to French company Mediawan. — Plan B helped make …
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Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, @dalter007, @richlightshed, IndieWire, @sherman4949, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap and Variety
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CBS held news of Brittney Griner's imminent release for a week after learning about it, at the White House's request; source: another outlet held it for a day — The first news organization to pin down the news of the WNBA star's release from a Russian prison agreed to a White House request to delay the story
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Awful Announcing, Deadspin, New York Post, Breitbart, @jeremymbarr, @washingtonpost, CBS News and Fox News
Associated Press:
IFJ: 67 journalists and media workers were killed on the job globally in 2022, mostly due to the Ukraine war, chaos in Haiti, and criminal groups in Mexico — Russia's war in Ukraine, chaos in Haiti and rising violence by criminal groups in Mexico contributed to a 30% spike in the number …
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IFJ, New York Daily News, European Federation … and Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media
Peter White / Deadline:
Memo: Nancy Daniels, who oversees Turner's networks and several Discovery channels, and Jane Latman, who leads Food Network, are leaving Warner Bros. Discovery — EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Daniels, who oversees the Turner networks and a number of Discovery channels, and Jane Latman …
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The Hollywood Reporter, @cnschedules, @christodoyle, The Wrap and @jbflint
David Satin / The Streamable:
VUit, a live news streaming service, reaches a deal to add local CBS news stations in more than a dozen markets, including New York and Los Angeles — One of the largest free streaming services offering live and on-demand news is expanding its reach even further.
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