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Wall Street Journal:
Source: Vice Media secures $30M+ in debt financing from Fortress; sources: Vice owes millions to vendors and advisers, some of whom have hired debt collectors — Company owes millions of dollars in overdue payments to several vendors, some of whom have resorted to debt collectors
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@jtoonkel, @amir, @jbenton, @lawrencehurley, @niubi, @alexbruell, @tvgrimreaper, @mateirosca, @mediaevan, The Information and The Wrap
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
How women journalists around the world are targeted by powerful people, commonly by probing and speculating on the woman's personal life and relationship status — Tackling difficult subjects and holding powerful people accountable often triggers online attacks that torment and humiliate women journalists.
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International Center …, @washingtonpost, @tarushi_aswani, @rvawonk, @ghadaoueiss, @ranaayyub, @jswatz, @halbritz, @sandibachom, @digiphile, @ainajkhan, @kenroth, @wolfe321, @marionkoopmans, @emilyytayylor, @ghadaoueiss, @thomas_drake1, @icfj, @suhasinih, @taylorlorenz, @mattlaslo, @laurie_garrett, @gfarooqi, @taylorlorenz, @washingtonpost, @washingtonpost, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @jswatz, @washingtonpost, @taylorlorenz, @writerwong, @hemjhaveri, @nadineyousif_, @washingtonpost, @taylorlorenz, @dankennedy_nu@journa.host, Committee to Protect … and @dangillmor@mastodon.social
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
An analysis of 12 news outlets' US job postings finds that average pay ranges at some are four times larger than at others; pay ranges widen with experience — Who in US media is hiring and what are the salaries on offer? — Pay transparency remains unusual in UK media, but in parts of the US, it's a legal requirement.
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@scottnover, @michaelroston, @elliemaeohagan, @pressgazette, @pressgazette and @pressgazette
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Today's mainstream media is much better than the old media oligopolies, but Bari Weiss, Fox News, and others are exaggerating the issues to sell their own wares — More competition means it's better than ever, but you hear more about the flaws — Fresh episode of Bad Takes is out today …
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@mattyglesias, @mattyglesias, @mattzeitlin, @anthony, @jamespmanley, @mattyglesias, @campussources, @joeycoleman, @gregbudzban, @mattyglesias and @semaforben
Abbey White / The Hollywood Reporter:
Over 100 people and organizations from Hollywood call on the NYT to stop “bias, fringe theories, and dangerous inaccuracies” in its coverage of trans people — Hannah Gadsby, Joey Soloway, Margaret Cho, Jameela Jamil, Lena Dunham, Jonathan Van Ness and Jazz Jennings were also among …
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nytletter.com, Hell Gate, GLAAD, Deadline, BuzzFeed News, @binarybits, @owillis, @rcolesworthy, @glaad, @muna_mire, @muna_mire, @wcruz73, @femme_thoughts, @jmkliegman, @transscribe, @shiramstein, @melissagira, @shaneferro, @isle_mcelroy, @bykatesmith, @macfathom, @nikostratis, @luxalptraum, @byjudedoyle, @bykatesmith and @harronwawker
Catherine Wang / Forbes:
How BandLab, a music production app and social network for creators, woos users through its SongStarter AI tool, which generates royalty-free instrumental ideas — A scion of Malaysia's richest family, Kuok Meng Ru transformed his love of classic rock and blues into a music empire.
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@forbes
Paul Kirby / BBC:
A Russian court jails journalist Maria Ponomarenko for six years over posting on social media about Russia's bombing of Ukraine's Mariupol in March 2022 — Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko has been jailed for six years for posting on social media about a deadly attack by Russian warplanes on a theatre in Ukraine.
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Amnesty International, @mbk_center and Politico
Will Goodbody / RTÉ:
Dublin-based NewsWhip, used by Google, Meta, the BBC, and The New York Times, raised $13M led by AshGrove Capital to grow its media monitoring operations — Newswhip, the Dublin based predictive media monitoring firm, has raised $13m in fresh investment. — The round was led by London-based AshGrove Capital.
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@paulyq, NewsWhip, Business Post and The Irish Times
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York appeals court rejects Fox News' bid to dismiss a Smartmatic defamation suit over 2020 election statements and reinstates claims against Jeanine Pirro — A New York state appeals court rejected Fox News' bid to dismiss a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit accusing the network …
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NPR, The Guardian, @mollyjongfast, @jeremymbarr, @jeremymbarr, @mjk_4mjk@mastodon.ie, @jeremymbarr, Bloomberg, Insider, Reason, Associated Press and Deadline
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Gigi Sohn, Biden's nominee for the last of five FCC seats, faced a third Senate Commerce Committee confirmation hearing amid telecom, media, and GOP opposition — More than a year since she last faced a Senate hearing over her nomination to the FCC, Gigi Sohn returned again on Tuesday …
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The Hill, PC Gamer, Wall Street Journal, Next TV, Inside Radio, MediaPost, Light Reading, Fox News, Free Press, Ars Technica, The Verge, Fox News and Radio & Television …
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
The Dallas Morning News plans to reassign the five staff at Al Día on March 1, leaving its Spanish-language outlet to publish just translations and wire stories — Al Día, the Dallas Morning News' Spanish-language sister newspaper, will be disbanded on March 1 …
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@hanaatameez, @niemanlab, @rebeccaaguilar, @marcela_elisa, @sarahscire, @dallasnewsguild and Dallas News Guild
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Fox says its free ad-supported streaming TV service Tubi passed 64M MAUs, up from 51M MAUs in May 2022, and 25M MAUs when Fox acquired the service in March 2020 — Fox's free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) service, Tubi, reached 64 million monthly active users, the company announced today.
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Fox Corporation, @tvgrimreaper, Light Reading, Media Play News, The Streamable, Fox Corporation and Cord Cutters News
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