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The Dallas Morning News fired a reporter for violating its social media policy after she called the mayor “bruh” on Twitter; her union filed a NLRB complaint — Meghan Mangrum moved to Dallas to cover education. — Meghan Mangrum moved to Dallas last summer to cover education …
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Reuters:
African pay TV company MultiChoice signs a deal with Comcast to create a pan-Africa streaming service built on Showmax, MultiChoice's streaming service — Africa's biggest pay TV company, MultiChoice Group (MCGJ.J), said on Thursday it had entered into an agreement with U.S.-based media conglomerate Comcast …
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
ITV reports 2022 revenue up 7% YoY to £4.3B, external revenue up 8% YoY to £3.7B, ITV Studios revenue up 19% YoY to £2B, and digital revenue up 18% YoY to £411M — U.K. commercial broadcaster ITV's annual results for 2022 were revealed Thursday and the picture is robust.
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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Netflix dominates in subscriptions and ARPU, followed by Disney+/Hulu, and WBD's HBO Max/Discovery+; Amazon and Apple don't disclose Prime Video and TV+ numbers — Netflix continues to dominate but Disney, Paramount, Comcast and Warner Bros. Discovery all expect big DTC growth this year and next
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
In a memo, Daily Mail editor Ted Verity says DMGT is proposing layoffs at the print titles and bringing the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday “much closer together” — Mail Newspapers editor-in-chief Ted Verity said future growth would come from digital.
Center for Public Integrity:
The Center for Public Integrity acquires The Accountability Project, which lets journalists search and organize 1.8B public records on campaign finance and more — The Accountability Project makes more than 1.8 billion public records easy to search and analyze.
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Jon Lafayette / Next TV:
Report: Comcast rejected a proposal to run the RSNs being shut down by Warner Bros. Discovery; MLB has hired three executives for a local media department — Leagues seeking ways to keep regional sports network revenue flowing — Comcast is not interested in running the regional sports …
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Reuters Institute:
Q&A with Emmanuel Yegon, co-founder of the outlet Mobile Journalism Africa, on training young reporters, mobile journalism's potential and challenges, and more — Emmanuel Yegon is a journalist, a mobile journalism trainer, and the co-founder of Mobile Journalism Africa (MoJo Africa) …
Josh Dickey / The Wrap:
Ozy Media suspends operations due to “operational and legal challenges” following the arrest and indictment of its CEO Carlos Watson on federal fraud charges — Ozy Media on Wednesday said it was suspending operations, days after founder Carlos Watson was indicted on federal fraud charges.
Peter Zimonjic / CBC News:
Canada's parliament summons four Google execs to appear on March 6 after the company blocked news content over the Online News Act; not all execs must appear — Google's actions amount to censorship and show disrespect to Canadians, says NDP MP Julian — A parliamentary committee …
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Max Fisher / @max_fisher:
[Thread] Max Fisher, writer of The New York Times' column The Interpreter, says he's leaving partly due to management's bitter fight with the newsroom's union — After seven great years at the NY Times, I resigned last week to pursue an exciting new project, to be announced soon. But I wanted to share a bit about why I left what had been my dream job since my days at the student paper.
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Peter White / Deadline:
Vice Media Global President of News & Entertainment Jesse Angelo leaves to launch Checker Media, which will focus on news, documentaries, and non-fiction — EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Angelo is the latest top executive to leave Vice Media as he starts his own production company.
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
A look at Fox's risky secondary defense in the Dominion lawsuit if its First Amendment defense fails: claiming commentators believed election fraud took place — It's a risky strategy, legal experts say, but could help the network make the case that its commentators had reason to see false claims as plausible.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Court documents detail Fox News executives, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, and others struggling to navigate election fraud lies by Donald Trump and his associates
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