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11:05 AM ET, February 2, 2023

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TechCrunch:
Twitter plans to end free access to its API starting February 9, shuttering support for both v1.1 and v2, making a paid version available instead  —  Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version, the Elon Musk-owned microblogging website …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Some former CNET employees describe the breakdown of barriers between editorial and advertising under Red Ventures and say they were pressured to change stories  —  CNET built a trusted brand for tech reporting over two decades.  After being acquired by Red Ventures, staff say editorial firewalls have been repeatedly breached.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The Daily Show's Roy Wood Jr. will host the White House Correspondents' Association's dinner on April 29  —  Roy Wood Jr. will be this year's featured entertainer at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner on April 29.  —  The Daily Show correspondent has a standup special …
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Holden Foreman, The Washington Post's first accessibility engineer, on his role, improving access for people with disabilities, challenges, and more  —  “It is definitely stressful to be the first in this new role.  I feel deep down like I need to justify its creation with every step that I take."
Discussion: Ad Age and @niemanlab
Samantha Cole / VICE:
Netflix Japan used AI art in the anime short “The Dog & The Boy”, citing a “labor shortage” in the industry, which has long faced labor abuses and poor wages  —  A new short film called ‘The Dog & The Boy’ uses AI-generated art for its backgrounds.  —  Samantha Cole
Emily Bary / MarketWatch:
SEC filing: Comcast sold 5,726,385 BuzzFeed shares from January 30 to February 1 as BuzzFeed's stock surged, leaving the company with 19.97% of BuzzFeed's stock  —  Buzzfeed stock has rocketed in recent days amid enthusiasm over its use of AI  —  Comcast Corp. has sold part of its stake in Buzzfeed Inc. …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix says US password sharing rules haven't been set yet, removes rules from its US help page that said users must connect to a “primary Wi-Fi” every 31 days  —  Based on info sourced from Netflix's support pages, The Streamable reported on Tuesday details about its upcoming anti-password sharing efforts.
Lizzie Johnson / @lizziejohnsonnn:
[Thread] After the murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, The Washington Post picked up and finished his work on an alleged $500M Ponzi scheme  —  Not long after Jeff German — a reporter at the @reviewjournal — was slain outside of his home last fall, my editor called me with a question. The Post had reached out, asking if we could help in some way. Jeff's editor had an idea. Maybe we could take on the last of his work.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: BDG Media suspends Gawker operations and CEO Bryan Goldberg says the company will cut 8% of its full-time staff after “a surprisingly difficult” Q1 2023  —  BDG Media is suspending Gawker and will lay off 8% of full-time staff, according to an internal memo from CEO Bryan Goldberg that was obtained by Axios.
Mizanur Rahman / Houston Landing:
Houston Landing, a free, independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, digital-only news outlet, which received $20M in seed funding in 2022, announces a spring launch  —  More than a year ago, researchers studying local news in the Houston metro area learned something critical to the launch of the Houston Landing.
Reeves Wiedeman / Vulture:
As documentaries boom, filmmakers, their subjects, and the bill-paying streamers wrestle with questions of ethics, money, and control, amid shrinking budgets  —  The boom — or glut — in streaming documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects.
 
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Bryan Curtis / The Ringer:
A profile of James McNicholas, who covers Arsenal for The Athletic and has an acting career that includes starring in the BBC's Horrible Histories and Ted Lasso
Bloomberg:
TikTok is limiting the number of songs that some users in Australia can post on its app, an experiment meant to assess how much they value music in their videos
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Pakistan “degrades” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” and warns of a full block if the nonprofit fails to comply
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Max Tani / Semafor:
The US DOJ charges former ABC News foreign correspondent James Gordon Meek over the alleged transportation of CSAM; the FBI raided Meek's home in April 2022
Sahil Patel / The Information:
Sources: Netflix told advertisers that sign-ups for its ad tier doubled in January 2023 over December 2022; Netflix predicted 1.75M ad tier subscribers in Q1
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg renames its Quicktake streaming channel to Bloomberg Originals and adds more documentaries and talk shows, after seeing growth in ad-supported video
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone's ad joint venture meant to rival Meta and Google is set to win unconditional EU antitrust approval
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram from its App Store in China, after orders from the country's regulators citing national security concerns

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Telegram partners with Tether to let the messaging app's ~900M users send USDT to each other through The Open Network blockchain

 
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