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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Sources: WVPB dismissing reporter Amelia Knisely came after years of pressure on the station by Governor Jim Justice's administration and some state legislators — Late last fall, West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Amelia Ferrell Knisely reported one story after another about allegations …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: NBC Sports prepares a bid for NBA rights after 20+ years; the NBA can't formally negotiate with companies other than WBD and Disney before April 2024 — - NBC Sports is prepared to make an aggressive offer to win back NBA rights after more than 20 years without them.
Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen: Fox's Super Bowl airing averaged 113M viewers, up 1% over 2022's game and the third biggest TV program yet; Fox cited a record ~7M streams, up 18% YoY — Fox's telecast of Super Bowl LVII on Sunday night brought in an average 113 million viewers, according to Nielsen.
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Max Tani / Semafor:
A look back at Spotify betting hundreds of millions of dollars on podcasts, which CFO Paul Vogel says were a “big drag on our business in 2022” — By 2021, Spotify had paid to sign some of the biggest names in podcasting, and it was ready to start squeezing its competitors.
Seth Mydans / New York Times:
Cambodian PM Hun Sen orders the shutdown of the Voice of Democracy, one of the country's last independent outlets, intensifying a long-running media crackdown — The leader, Hun Sen, was not satisfied with an apology he received from the outlet after it wrote about his son, a lieutenant general.
Aaron Mok / Insider:
Report: TikTok is planning to let creators charge $1 or more for videos and is working on the Creator Fund 2.0, which could pay creators with 100K+ followers — - TikTok creators could soon start charging fans to watch their videos, per The Information. — The company hopes a paywall …
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
How a slowing digital ad market, Apple's ATT changes, tech companies' internal turmoil, weak content moderation, and more are contributing to a junk ad epidemic — Scrolling past ads has rarely been enjoyable. But in recent months, people say the experience seems so much worse.
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Paramount Global says Showtime co-presidents Jana Winograde and Gary Levine are stepping down and the Showtime team will merge with MTV Entertainment Studios — That didn't take long at all: Just after revealing that Showtime co-presidents Jana Winograde and Gary Levine are stepping …
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Samantha Cole / VICE:
A look at the torrent of deepfake porn harassment targeted at female creators, as a Twitch streamer admits to buying deepfakes of streamers after he was caught — After Atrioc was caught buying non-consensual, pornographic deepfakes of fellow Twitch streamers, the abuse against women targeted has been endless.
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Wired:
Publishers worry that Microsoft's and Google's search chatbots, which summarize key info from articles, may undermine their businesses and spread misinformation — Microsoft's new search interface can serve up key information from articles, removing the need to click—and potentially undermining publisher business models.
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Semafor:
Sources: Naguib Sawiris, the Egyptian billionaire who sold Euronews in 2021, plans to debut a Dubai-based global business news outlet in late 2023 or early 2024 — The American Super Bowl, kicking off shortly, is also Madison Avenue's Super Bowl. And one of the biggest advertisers' goal …
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
In a staff email, Insider UK discloses the minimum salaries for each newsroom role; the lowest-paid journalists make £35K+ and the highest-paid make £60K+ — The lowest editorial salaries at Insider UK start at £35,000. — Insider has disclosed to its UK journalists …
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