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Vox:
Vox plans to retire its Recode and The Goods brands, moving Recode's coverage to Vox's tech section and The Goods' coverage into its culture and money sections — Today, Vox announced it will retire the branding for Recode and The Goods. You can still find all the same great work …
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Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
How TV Rain and dozens of other exiled Russian media outlets flocked to Latvia's capital of Riga, only to encounter a distrustful public and strict regulations — Dozens of media outlets have fled to the capital of Latvia, only to encounter a distrustful public and a set of strictly enforced laws and regulations.
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Reuters Institute, @newyorker, @brianstelter, @ilvestoomas and @sevslv
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Isobel Koshiw / The Guardian:
Ukrainian reporters say wartime censorship and a shared sense that the army is also protecting journalists has made reporting on army corruption a challenge — War restrictions on press freedom and a sense the army is protecting officials complicates the task of rooting out corruption
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@andrew__roth
Wall Street Journal:
Dominion lawsuit documents show how Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott deals with the Murdochs, Rupert's involvement in editorial, the influence of top hosts, and more — Court documents show how CEO deals with Murdochs on editorial strategy, influence of top hosts
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@jbflint, @jtoonkel, @noahcrothman, @phil_rosenthal, Media Matters for America and Insider
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Legal experts say the $1.6B Dominion lawsuit puts Fox News in real jeopardy as the amount and weight of evidence surpasses other major, recent defamation cases — Outside legal observers say the Fox News Channel finds itself in real legal jeopardy in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought …
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Washington Post, Associated Press, @jackshafer, @joanespositochi, @deggans, @stengel, @aaronblake, @joeconason, @paulcshipley, @davidsacks, @wajahatali, @oliverdarcy, @dbauder, @badfoxgraphics, @kimmasters, @casmudde, @unrealdmgold, @thekenbarnett, @mattgertz, @sharonwaxman, @davidfolkenflik, @davidamoyal, @juliusgoat, Florida Politics, The Wrap, @darnell@one.darnell.one, @GreenFire@climatejustice … and CBS News
Benedict Evans:
Analysis: Amazon had $38B in 2022 ad revenue, more than the entire global newspaper industry and likely more than the revenue Prime generated from subscriptions — I first started paying attention to Amazon's ad business a couple of years ago, when a line called ‘other’ in the back of the accounts started to grow really fast.
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@aparanjape, @minethatdata, @riolongacre, @vilile, @benedictevans and Cord Cutters News, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global explores selling a majority stake of BET Media Group, which caters primarily to Black audiences; actor Tyler Perry expressed interest — Potential sale of part of parent of BET and VH1 would help Paramount shore up resources for streaming
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The UK's Reach reports revenue fell 2.3% YoY to £601.4M in 2022 and operating profit fell 27.4% YoY to £106.1M; digital revenue made up £149.8M of total revenue — Growing online audience for Reach was accompanied by plunging revenue in Q4 2022.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Medium opens up its Mastodon instance as a perk included in its $5/month or $50/year membership, and forecasts a community in the “six figures” later in 2023 — Publishing platform Medium is opening up its debut Mastodon instance, me.dm, to its members, the company announced today.
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Alex Benzer, @medium and @kimonostereo
Karan Deep Singh / New York Times:
A profile of Meena Kotwal, the founder of The Mooknayak, an online news outlet she started two years ago to cover Dalits and other marginalized groups in India — Meena Kotwal started a news outlet focused on Dalit and other marginalized groups in India, hoping that telling their stories will help improve their lives.
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@surajyengde, @profdilipmandal and @pjkanojia
Corinne Purtill / Los Angeles Times:
Simon & Schuster suspends sales of CBS News medical contributor Dr. David Agus' The Book of Animal Secrets, pending a rewrite amid allegations of plagiarism — The publication of a new book by Dr. David Agus, the media-friendly USC oncologist who leads the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute …
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News and Corporate Information …, @latimes, @jaclyncosgrove, @latimes, @icpetrie, @latimes, @latimes, Insider, The Daily Beast, @jpanzar, Deadline and CBS News
Alexander Lee / Digiday:
The Washington Post launches On the Record, a daily news quiz and its first in-house game, as the outlet hopes to attract new subscribers using gamification — Last week, the Washington Post launched its first in-house gaming product, just over a month after announcing the closure of Launcher, WaPo's gaming and esports vertical.
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