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8:40 AM ET, December 15, 2022

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Ryan Mac / New York Times:
Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts “dedicated to sharing someone else's live location”  —  The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter's owner.
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Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Twitter plans to shut down its newsletter platform Revue and delete all related data on January 18, 2023, after acquiring the company in January 2021  —  One day after Jack Dorsey took to Revue to share his thoughts on the Twitter Files, the company announced it would shut down the newsletter platform early next year.
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 …
New York Times:
Leaked emails show Russia's largest state broadcaster VGTRK worked with security services to mine right-wing US and Chinese media to craft its Ukraine narrative  —  Leaked emails detail how Russia's biggest state broadcaster, working with the nation's security services …
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
NBC News:
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Platformer:
Sources: Twitter is considering forcing all users to opt in to personalized ads and share their location data but may let Blue users opt out of personalized ads  —  Agree to personalize your ads — or else  —  A month ago, when Elon Musk's Twitter first set out to revamp the Twitter Blue subscription …
Ariel Shapiro / The Verge:
NPR cancels its 2023 summer internship program due to “a worldwide set of economic challenges”; about one-sixth of the outlet's current staff started as interns  —  I hope you all had a great weekend.  We have a lot to dive into today, so let's get to it: NPR cuts its summer internship program …
John Raby / Associated Press:
Three Charleston Gazette-Mail reporters in West Virginia say they were fired for publicly criticizing their company president's interview with an ex-coal CEO  —  Three reporters from a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper in West Virginia say they have been fired after publicly criticizing …
 
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Marie-Danielle Smith / Canadian Press:
Canada's House of Commons passes a bill that requires web giants to pay media outlets, and Meta again threatens removing news content from Facebook in Canada
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Ofcom accepts the BBC's calls to reduce the news and current affairs quota on Radio 5 Live from 75% to 70%, cut some news quotas on “opt-out” services, and more
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Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon partners with Netflix to give some customers who subscribe to another service via its new +play marketplace a free one-year Netflix premium subscription
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
HBO pulls Westworld, The Nevers, and other canceled shows from HBO Max as part of Warner Bros. Discovery's plans to cut costs, including by saving on residuals
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Max Tani / Semafor:
RSF: 533 journalists, including 78 women, both record numbers, are currently detained globally, and at least 57 were killed while working in 2022, up 19% YoY
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
IMDb says industry professionals on free or standard IMDbPro plans can now choose whether to display their ages, names, and other personal info on its sites
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
The US Supreme Court asks the Biden administration to weigh in on lyrics website Genius' attempt to revive a lawsuit over Google's alleged theft of its work
Tom Tapp / Deadline:
Allen Media Group's ad-supported streaming service Local Now plans to add local PBS stations that reach audiences in 300+ markets and the PBS Kids 24/7 channel
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