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Washington Post:
India has taken extraordinary measures to prevent citizens from seeing the BBC's Narendra Modi documentary, including cutting electricity and detaining students — NEW DELHI — The film had already been banned, the social media posts censored. Now, the students huddled without light …
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Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter reinstates some Hindu nationalist accounts popular in India, including some denigrating Muslims, and blocks links to a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi — Human-rights groups say they have seen a rise in anti-Muslim material on the platform — Elon Musk's Unconventional Management Style: Former Employees Share Stories
The Guardian:
Margaret Sullivan, former Washington Post columnist and New York Times public editor, joins The Guardian US as a media, politics, and culture weekly columnist — GNM press office — Beginning this week, Margaret Sullivan, one of America's leading journalists and media commentators …
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Bryce Elder / Financial Times:
FT Alphaville closes its Mastodon server and reflects on why running a social media site is a bad idea, including due to reputational, legal, and security risks — Extinction looms for FTAV's Mastodon presence — A few months ago, FT Alphaville thought it might be fun to host a Mastodon server.
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Bloomberg:
Sinclair Broadcast's Diamond Sports Group heads toward an $8.6B debt restructuring in bankruptcy court and bets on its new direct-to-consumer streaming service — America's largest owner of local sports channels is heading toward a complex $8.6 billion debt restructuring in bankruptcy court …
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike, the first prolonged newspaper strike in decades, still has no end in sight after 100 days and four negotiating sessions — When staff at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette walked off the job in October, they became the first newspaper to strike in decades.
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Variety:
US short seller Hindenburg Research says Adani Group, India's largest corporation and aspiring media empire, is “pulling the largest con in corporate history” — Hindenburg Research, a firm that engages in short-selling of company stocks in anticipation of a share price decline …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
DirecTV drops Newsmax after carriage fee negotiations hit a standstill and the current contract expired on January 25; Newsmax was on cable in ~50M households — The conservative cable outlet was cut loose after the two sides failed to agree on terms, taking away a chunk of Newsmax's cable footprint.
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New York Times:
Rupert Murdoch withdraws his News Corp and Fox Corp merger plan after significant investor pushback; James Murdoch questioned the deal in letters to both boards — News Corp, one of his companies, said Rupert Murdoch had determined that a merger was “not optimal for shareholders of News Corp and Fox at this time.”
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Alex Ritman / The Hollywood Reporter:
Vice Media Group signs a deal to create bespoke, Arabic-language content and offer training for Saudi-owned MBC Group; Vice opened a Riyadh office in April 2021 — The youth media brand will create bespoke Arabic content for the government-owned Middle East behemoth.
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today:
Twitter launches a Search Keyword Ads option that lets advertisers place Promoted Tweets within specific search results, allowing targeting based on user intent — Twitter has launched a new ad option that will enable advertisers to place Promoted Tweets within specific search results …
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@mgsiegler and @glenngabe
Reed Richardson / GIJN:
Reporters Shield, a legal support and defense fund for investigative journalists and outlets worldwide, launches with $9M from USAID and $2M in private support — Between 2015 and 2000, Poland's daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza received more than 55 legal threats as a result of its work …
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