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After Bulgaria expelled a Russian journalist for a state-owned outlet, Russia summons a Bulgarian correspondent in Moscow to the foreign ministry — Russia on Thursday warned Bulgaria that it would retaliate against Sofia for its decision to expel a Russian journalist on national security grounds …
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Mark Caro / Local News Initiative:
Q&A with Ken Doctor on the Press Forward's philanthropic commitment to invest $500M in local news, his local digital news outlet Lookout Santa Cruz, and more — Veteran journalist Ken Doctor had been analyzing “Newsonomics” for many years when he jumped back into the game to launch …
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Voice of San Diego, Andy Donohue on LinkedIn and The Atlantic
Columbia Journalism School:
Columbia Journalism School names Margaret Sullivan as executive director for the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security, starting on January 1 — Margaret Sullivan, weekly columnist for the Guardian US, will become the Executive Director for the Craig Newmark Center …
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@sulliview, @craignewmark, @sulliview and @columbiajourn
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Meta announces new creator tools, including a Reels A/B testing tool to test different versions of Reels and see which perform best — Creators on Facebook are getting a handful of new tools on the platform — including the ability to test how different Reels perform against each other.
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Engadget and Meta, more at Techmeme »
Bloomberg:
The FTC says Jeff Bezos personally ordered Amazon execs to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to 2022 — - FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’
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The Verge, Reuters and Washington Post, more at Techmeme »
Jared Newman / TechHive:
Amazon adds advertisements for physical products, such as earbuds, to Fire TV's top feature carousel, which until now has only promoted streaming video content — Amazon will hawk products straight from the top carousel and bring ads into search results. — CORD-CUTTER CONFIDENTIAL
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MediaPost, @techhive, @Newmy@writing.exchange, AdExchanger and Cord Cutters News, more at Techmeme »
The Hollywood Reporter:
HBO's Casey Bloys concedes that creating Twitter accounts to undermine TV critics was a “very, very dumb idea to vent my frustration” — The HBO CEO apologized for the accounts that trolled critics posting about network programming on social media.
Erin Woo / The Information:
Source: TikTok users sent $250M+ worth of digital gifts to US livestreamers in Q3; TikTok takes a 50% cut and is on track to earn $500M in US tips in 2023 — A young man with a shaved head and leather jacket bounces up and down in New York's Union Square, chanting “TGIF” as viewers send him a stream of tips costing a few cents each.
Gerardo Arbaiza / Reuters:
El Salvador's Congress repeals a law that criminalized the publication of gang messages, which critics said unjustly targeted journalists; no arrests were made — El Salvador's Congress repealed a law on Wednesday that criminalized the publication of gang messages, as ruling party leaders declared victory …
Sophia Stewart / Publishers Weekly:
Scholastic employees, represented by the News Guild of New York, staged a one-day work stoppage on November 1 after the publisher's rejection of a wage proposal — Unionized workers at Scholastic staged a one-day work stoppage on November 1 following the children's publisher's rejection …
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@newsguild, @gaufre, @nyguild, @brerva and The NewsGuild
Committee to Protect Journalists:
At least 27 local and international journalists covering recent political rallies in Bangladesh's Dhaka were attacked by demonstrators and the police — Bangladesh authorities must immediately and impartially investigate the assaults on at least 27 journalists covering recent political rallies …
Burcu Karakas / Reuters:
Turkey arrests two high-profile journalists under its “disinformation” law: RSF says 20+ journalists, mostly local reporters, are being targeted by the 2022 law — Free speech advocates expressed their concerns on Thursday over a widening state crackdown on press freedom …
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Balkan Insight
Amanda Chicago Lewis / The Verge:
A critical look at the SEO industry: users complain that Google isn't as useful anymore, some experts complain it's harder to game Google's algorithm, and more — As the public begins to believe Google isn't as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts …
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