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Abbey White / The Hollywood Reporter:
Over 100 New York Times contributors and others call on the paper 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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The Guardian:
France's BFMTV suspended presenter Rachid M'Barki last month and launched an internal investigation into news packages linked to an Israeli disinformation unit — Rachid M'Barki, one of channel's longest-serving hosts, suspended during inquiry into news packages linked to ‘Team Jorge’
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Kristin Dolan, the wife of AMC Chairman James Dolan who runs a data analytics company, emerges as a candidate to become AMC network's CEO — Cable-TV company known for hits like ‘The Walking Dead’ has discussed potential deals with Roku, Sony and others; transition to streaming has been rocky
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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 …
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Sources: Federico Quadrani, the executive producer for Jake Tapper's show, was ousted by CNN last week over an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate — It's been one year since former CNN chief Jeff Zucker resigned over his relationship with top exec Allison Gollust — and now the network is weathering a new alleged scandal.
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Mediaite, Fox News, @katiecouric and @johnnydollar01
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Twitter updates policies to allow cannabis ads targeting US states where cannabis is legal, promoting brands or providing information, not offering direct sales — Twitter on Wednesday updated its advertising policies to allow cannabis ads to run on its service in states where cannabis is legal, in accordance with federal guidelines.
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MPR News:
Star Tribune names Steve Grove, a former Google executive and Minnesota's commissioner of employment and economic development, as its publisher and CEO — The Star Tribune has tapped Minnesota's commissioner of employment and economic development to take the paper's top job.
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Star Tribune and MediaPost
Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg:
After news orgs sought names of SBF's bail guarantors, a judge unseals records: Stanford Law emeritus dean Larry Kramer and Stanford scientist Andreas Paepcke — Two people who co-signed Sam Bankman-Fried's $250 million bail package have been have been publicly identified as a former dean …
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
A look at the fight between DirecTV and Newsmax over carriage fees; any deal Newsmax makes can affect the terms of its pacts with other pay TV providers — Viewers who have tuned into the conservative news channel Newsmax in recent weeks may think they are watching a telethon.
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CNN, @thetweetofjohn, The Desk, IndieWire and @jayrosen_nyu
Brendan Coffey / Sportico:
Sinclair Broadcast's Diamond Sports Holdings skipped a $140M debt payment due on February 15, 2023, formally starting a 30-day grace period to resolve the debt — Regional sports network operator Diamond Sports Holdings has skipped a $140 million debt payment due Wednesday …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Vermont-based Superplastic, which creates “synthetic” influencers and characters, raised $20M led by Amazon's Alexa Fund and plans to work with Amazon Studios — Janky and Guggimon, ‘synthetic’ celebrities conceived in a studio and big on social platforms like TikTok and Instagram …
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The Wrap, Variety, Fast Company, Forbes, Deadline, Insider and The Hollywood Reporter, more at Techmeme »
Paul Kirby / BBC:
A Russian court jails journalist Maria Ponomarenko for six years over posting on social media about Russia's deadly 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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Committee to Protect …, @resistsbob, Forbes, Al Jazeera, @mbk_center, Amnesty International, European Federation … and Politico
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