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Jahnavi Nidumolu / Reuters:
Twitter drops the “Government-funded” and “state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media outlets and journalists, including NPR, BBC, CBC, RT, and Xinhua — Twitter dropped the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels, which implies government involvement …
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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Twitter emails advertisers to say they must now have “a verified checkmark or subscribe to either Twitter Blue or Verified Organizations” to keep running ads — As Twitter's legacy blue check mark system finally comes to an end, the social network's new paid-for verification system …
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Dara Kerr / NPR:
Sources: Twitter removed its “visibility filtering rules”, or “shadow bans”, for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government accounts and state-affiliated media — Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier …
Hillary Frey / Slate:
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti innovated and kept BuzzFeed News going longer than others would have, only for Facebook's pivot away from news to kill his creation — I heard about BuzzFeed News shutting down right before it hit Twitter. Word travels fast among industry old-timers like myself, and we try to keep each other in the loop.
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
BuzzFeed News' legacy has two components: brilliant stories and alumni plus digital media's tragic mismanagement of unrealistic, impossible exponential growth
BuzzFeed News' legacy has two components: brilliant stories and alumni plus digital media's tragic mismanagement of unrealistic, impossible exponential growth
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
The end of BuzzFeed News signals a vast shift in digital media: the old way of thinking about news as text distributed primarily on social media has passed
The end of BuzzFeed News signals a vast shift in digital media: the old way of thinking about news as text distributed primarily on social media has passed
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Alastair Reid / @ajreid:
[Thread] At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, journalists debate the shifting value of social networks, especially Twitter and Facebook — Outrageous setting for this powerhouse panel here at #ijf23 with @CharlieBeckett @emilybell @mathewi and @mitrakalita. What now for journalism as the platforms move on? https://twitter.com/...
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Reuters Institute:
Highlights from talks at International Journalism Festival 2023 in Perugia, Italy, about reporting in exile, investigative journalism, generative AI, and more — Here are a few highlights from the festival on topics such as press freedom, investigative journalism, climate coverage and AI
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A look at sports media rights money with cable TV's rise and fall, and why leagues and franchises worry they won't replicate the reach and revenue of peak cable — Television has changed the course of sports as long as it has existed, in ways both sweeping and specific.
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@benjstrauss, @barredindc, @mulvihill79, @joeovies, @benjstrauss, @dcsportsbog, @jbflint and @roehlteacher
Hsiuwen Liu / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists in Hong Kong, many who once worked at outlets that have since closed, like Apple Daily, continue to produce media independently despite China's laws — Hong Kong Court News, an online outlet that debuted at the start of the year, operates out of a rented coworking space in Wong Chuk Hang …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Hasbro is in talks with Entertainment One founder Darren Throop, who is backed by private equity firm CVC, to sell him back most of EOne's assets — Hasbro Inc. is in talks with Entertainment One founder Darren Throop to sell most of the film and TV studio's assets back to him, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
How business journalists are building their audiences via LinkedIn, which is using newsletters and curation to engage users and writers on the social network — Linkedin has one of the biggest business newsrooms in the world, with more than 250 editors following a major expansion in the past year.
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@dougalshawbbc, @mattnavarra, @amyrlewin and @pressgazette
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Bloomberg Media announces six new shows, focusing on documentary or interview formats, for Q2 2023, and hires Cassie Thornton as its head of IP partnerships — The new head of IP, Cassie Thornton, will be tasked with striking licensing deals to bring Bloomberg's journalism to other platforms.
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@thestalwart, @lauren_jellis, @rajakorman, Bloomberg Media, Bloomberg Media and Talking Biz News
Todd Shields / Bloomberg Law:
A US appeals court declines to force the FCC to speed up its decision to approve or deny Standard General's proposed $5.4B acquisition of TV broadcaster Tegna — Share To: — A court declined to speed regulatory consideration of Standard General LP's proposed purchase of TV broadcaster Tegna Inc. …
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Radio & Television … and Cablefax