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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
An interview with Bloomberg's Chief Digital Officer about reaching 500K subs five years after launching a paywall, ad business, engaging with Gen Z, and more — Press Gazette caught up with Bloomberg Media chief digital officer Julia Beizer in New York. — Bloomberg Media's chief digital …
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Talking Biz News, @pressgazette, @pressgazette, @pressgazette and @palewire
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
A look at The Gleaner, a local Kentucky newspaper, now a ghost newsroom with no full-time staff, as the loss of local papers grew to 2.5/week on average in 2023 — Rise of ‘ghost newsrooms’ spawns effort by local news startups to fill the void — The Gleaner, the local newspaper in Henderson …
Jane Martinson / The Guardian:
The UK government's potential scrutiny of Abu Dhabi's role in the Telegraph purchase is welcome after its failure to do so with the Independent — Intervention over a UAE-backed bid is welcome, but it's unlikely to signal a new era of media-ownership transparency
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Financial Times, @jimpearson17@threads.net and Bloomberg
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The Guardian:
Sources: the UK culture minister's probe into Abu Dhabi-backed bid for The Telegraph could be stifled by the Foreign Office, which aims to boost UAE relations — Foreign Office could stifle possible inquiry into bid from Abu Dhabi-backed fund RedBird IMI in absence of cabinet secretary
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Telegraph and The Guardian
Carmel Dagan / Variety:
Marty Krofft, a TV producer and co-creator of popular kids TV shows like H.R. Pufnstuf and Land of the Lost, died on November 25 at age 86 — Marty Krofft, who with his brother Sid produced memorable kids shows “H.R. Pufnstuf” and “Land of the Lost” — as well as the 2009 feature based on the latter — has died.
Yona Tr Golding / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Paul Caruana Galizia, son of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia of Malta, on writing about her death, choosing his own media career, and more — Writing was a compulsion for investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Known for her candid and witty prose …
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CNN, @mcco12@threads.net, @occupyjusticema and @amanpour
New York Times:
Internal docs: X may lose ~$75M in ad revenue by 2023 end as Amazon, Microsoft, and other major brands halted or consider halting ads; X says it may lose $11M — Internal documents show companies like Airbnb, Coca-Cola and Microsoft have halted ads, or are at risk of doing so …
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The Information, New York Post, @carnage4life@mas.to, The Hill, Newser, @jason_kint, @fmhilton@mastodon.sdf.org, @nash076, @chronotope, @profcarroll, @rmac18, @blowryontv, @rmac18, @profgalloway@threads.net, @karaswisher@threads.net, @drewharwell@threads.net and Reuters, more at Techmeme »
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Charles Peters, the founding editor of The Washington Monthly, a small political journal that challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies, dies at 96 — His political journal challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies for decades. — Charles Peters, the founding editor of The Washington Monthly …
Yashraj Sharma / Wired:
Ahead of elections in India in December and 2024, political parties are courting social media influencers to reach rural voters while dodging media interviews — Major political parties in India are courting social media influencers to reach rural voters, paying for reach and dodging tough questions.
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@yashjournals, @wired, MIT Technology Review and Financial Times, more at Techmeme »
Bloomberg:
RT and Sputnik have created mirror sites, like swentr.com, which have a fraction of the originals' traffic but allow them to bypass EU sanctions — - Mirror websites help Russia evade sanctions that block RT.com — EU measures fail to stop Kremlin disinformation campaigns
Discussion:
Lutz Güllner on LinkedIn and Felix Kartte on LinkedIn
Philip Reeves / NPR:
A snapshot from the Media Hub in Riga, Latvia, which offers refuge to exiled Russian and Belarusian journalists, like Kirill Martynov of Novaya Gazeta Europe — Russian independent news media is still functioning from Riga, Latvia. The exile presents challenges to newsgathering and press freedom.
Discussion:
@niemanlab and @kincaid323
Financial Times:
A New York law that suspended the statute of limitations on sex abuse claims spurred a flood of lawsuits and hope among advocates for a music industry reckoning — Almost 3,000 lawsuits have been filed in the year since the Adult Survivors Act passed — One evening in 2001 …
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Mother Jones, CNN, Billboard, CMU, Reuters, The A.V. Club and Rolling Stone
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