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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 …
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Hillary Frey / Slate:
A defense of Jonah Peretti, who kept BuzzFeed News going longer than others would have, while Facebook's pivot from news caused his creation's downfall — 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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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
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
The legacy of BuzzFeed News has two parts: brilliant stories and alumni, and also the tragedy of mismanagement and impossible, ceaseless exponential growth
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
BuzzFeed CRO Edgar Hernandez and COO Christian Baesler are leaving as part of the company's cuts, following advertisers pulling back; BZFD closes down 19.71%
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Reuters Institute:
A roundup of highlights from the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, on reporting in exile, investigative journalism, staff diversity, and AI — Here are a few highlights from the festival on topics such as press freedom, investigative journalism, climate coverage and AI
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Alastair Reid / @ajreid:
[Thread] At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, journalists debate the shifting value of social platforms including 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/...
Hsiuwen Liu / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists in Hong Kong, often veterans who had worked at closed outlets like Apple Daily, keep producing independent media despite strict government rules — 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 to sell most of the film and TV studio's assets back to him, backed by PE firm CVC — 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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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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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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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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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
After YouTube pulls Heart On My Sleeve due to a UMG copyright notice, a look at the legal dilemma for Google, which claims scraping data to train AI is fair use — If young Metro don't trust you, I'm gonna... tie you up in a decade of fair use litigation. — The AI Drake track …
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