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As lawmakers ripped TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in a congressional hearing on March 23, creators on the app defended the platform with the tag #tiktokhearing — It was a near-perfect split screen: As lawmakers ripped TikTok in a congressional hearing with the company's CEO on Thursday, the app's users took to the platform to defend it.
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Sources: Apple plans to spend $1B per year to produce movies for release in thousands of theatres, a big increase from years past, seeking to grow TV+ awareness — Apple Inc. plans to spend $1 billion a year to produce movies that will be released in theaters, according to people familiar …
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Sources: Apple considers bidding for the streaming rights to a range of English soccer games, including to show Premier League games in the UK, following Amazon
Sources: Apple considers bidding for the streaming rights to a range of English soccer games, including to show Premier League games in the UK, following Amazon
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NPR stops producing the Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot, Rough Translation, and Everyone & Their Mom podcasts, and cuts 10% of staff to close a $30M+ budget gap — NPR moved this week to cut 10 percent of its staff and stop production of a trio of acclaimed seasonal podcasts - Invisibilia …
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The FTC proposes banning difficult-to-cancel subscriptions via “click to cancel” rules requiring companies to make ending a subscription as simple as signing up — The US Federal Trade Commission is proposing a formal ban on subscriptions that are simple to start but difficult to stop.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution EIC Kevin Riley is retiring, to be succeeded by Leroy Chapman Jr., the first Black editor-in-chief in the outlet's 155-year history — Managing Editor Leroy Chapman to succeed Kevin Riley as editor-in-chief. Riley announced retirement Thursday.
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Journalism schools aren't interested in banning Fox News, despite the Dominion case appearing to reveal that the network committed a breach of journalism ethics — Fox News appears to have committed a gross breach of journalism ethics: intentionally lying to its audience about the 2020 election.
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@markjacob16, @jayrosen_nyu, @froomkin, @niemanlab and @markjacob16
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Fox lawyers argue the company shouldn't be found liable in the Dominion case as the Murdochs and other executives were not directly involved in Fox News content — Lawyers for the company, which faces a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit, are pushing for a judge to rule in their favor before a trial.
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A look at local news publishers' views on grants and government funding: one skeptic views tech company grants as “business-building projects”, not philanthropy — Publishers report revenue diversification, philanthropy and public funding key to sustainability
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Cory Doctorow plans to sell a third audiobook via Kickstarter after refusing to consent to Amazon's DRM for Audible, which gets 90%+ of genre audiobook sales — Red Team Blues is my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller; it's a major title for my publishers Tor Books and Head of Zeus …
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WGA East members at Hearst Magazines offices in Alabama, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania held a half-day March 23 walkout and rally for a fair contract — Hundreds of WGA East members employed at Hearst Magazines Media staged a half-day walkout and rally today to demand a fair contract.
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Q&A with Center for Cooperative Media Research Director Sarah Stonbely residents' top needs from local news outlets, especially calendars of municipal meetings — Blairstown, Paterson, and Trenton are three very different communities in New Jersey, but when Sarah Stonbely …
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A look at the Internet Archive's and the major publishers' arguments in a New York court as publishers struggle to prove IA's book lending hurt their revenues — A federal judge will soon decide if digital lending violates copyright laws. — Today, the Internet Archive (IA) …
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