Mediagazer: Former employees at defunct Charlottesville weekly The Hook speculate the buyer who killed its digital archive is linked to a story about a 2004 rape accusation (Paul Farhi/Washington Post)

12:05 PM ET, December 15, 2022

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Oliver Darcy / CNN:

The Washington Post plans to cut “a single digit percentage” of its workforce in Q1 2023; Fred Ryan told staff that new hires mean the newsroom will not shrink — New York CNN — — The Washington Post will conduct layoffs in the coming year as it reorients itself for the future …

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Andrew Oxford / Santa Fe Reporter:

Current and former Gannett employees at Gannett's New Mexico newspapers detail just how disastrous years of layoffs and budget cuts have been — National newspaper behemoth's slashing tactics leave fewer journalist covering New Mexico and readers adrift in their communities

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The SEC charges eight influencers with securities fraud, alleging they used Twitter and Discord to manipulate stocks from January 2020 as part of a $100M scheme — The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged eight social media influencers with securities fraud, saying Wednesday …

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Former employees at defunct Charlottesville weekly The Hook speculate the buyer who killed its digital archive is linked to a story about a 2004 rape accusation — The Hook, a beloved Charlottesville weekly, closed a decade ago but its archives lived on — until its 22,000 stories were suddenly taken offline in June.

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Kristin Robinson / Billboard:

TikTok is helping a new class of music business executives break through, circumventing the notoriously exclusive path into the industry usually required — The pandemic spurred many young music business hopefuls to join TikTok, now they are some of the industry's most sought-after talents.

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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:

Senator Tom Cotton blocks the PRESS Act, which would shield reporters from having to reveal sources, arguing they must instead face “scrutiny and consequences” — Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) blocked the Press Freedom Act on the Senate floor on Wednesday as Democrats tried …

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Céline Gounder / Fútbol with Grant Wahl:

Grant Wahl's wife Céline Gounder says the US soccer journalist died of an undetected ascending aortic aneurysm and “there was nothing nefarious about his death” — First and foremost, on behalf of myself and our family, I want to express our deepest gratitude for the outpouring …

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FuboTV says it was a victim of a cyberattack on Wednesday during the France-Morocco World Cup semifinal, which caused a service outage — The attack on the streaming service happened during the critical France-Morocco semifinal match. — The streaming multichannel video provider FuboTV …

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