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Nicola Agius / Search Engine Land:
Google says it blocked or removed 5.5B ads and 12.7M advertiser accounts for violating its policies in 2023, up from 5.2B and 6.7M respectively in 2022 — The number of advertisers who were blocked or removed due to policy violations nearly doubled compared to the previous year. — Chat with SearchBot
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Some NBC News staff raise concerns that the hiring and firing of Ronna McDaniel will damage relationships with GOP sources, making breaking news more difficult — The News — NBC News's dramatic hiring and firing of a former RNC chairwoman this week threatens to undo years of repositioning itself …
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David Zurawik / CNN:
NBCU News Group executives made the only decision they could have when reversing Ronna McDaniel's hire, following the on-air revolt by MSNBC's biggest stars
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Memo: NBCU News Group Chair Cesar Conde tells staff NBC dropped Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor and apologizes for hiring the former RNC chair
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The Wrap:
Sources: ex-Vice chief Shane Smith is trying to raise money to buy Vice Media back from Fortress, which led a' group that bought Vice out of bankruptcy in 2023 — When Vice cofounder Shane Smith disappeared from public view five years ago, it seemed about time.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
After more than nine years, London's Met Police apologize and settle with three journalists who were stopped from covering a Black Lives Matter protest in 2014 — One photographer was hit in the face in the lead-up to the detention of the journalists. — The Metropolitan Police has settled …
Hannah Wiley / Los Angeles Times:
Two journalists who were attacked by Minnesota police as they covered the 2020 George Floyd protests for the LA Times settle a lawsuit with the state for $1.2M — Two journalists who were cornered and attacked by the Minnesota State Patrol as they covered protests over George Floyd's murder …
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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Google sends a cease and desist to Gan Jing World, a video platform linked to Falun Gong that embeds and reskins YouTube videos without permission — Google has sent a cease and desist letter to Gan Jing World, a bizarre video platform linked to the Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong.
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Li Yuan / New York Times:
A profile of Wang Xiaoshuai, who decided to defy China's censors by screening his latest film, Above the Dust, in Berlin, despite orders to withdraw it — “I always strive for creative freedom,” Wang Xiaoshuai said. “But it's become impossible because of the circumstances.”
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Bill Maher launches The Club Random Studios, a podcast network with a focus on “freedom of expression”, and hires ex-ESPN anchor Sage Steele as its first host — “I am looking for people who are not talking point people,” the HBO host tells THR of his new podcast venture.
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Alexander Martin / The Record:
The Big Issue, which pays UK homeless people to be newspaper street vendors, confirms a cyber incident, after being listed on the Qilin ransomware gang's site — The Big Issue, a street newspaper in the United Kingdom famed for providing homeless people with a legitimate income by paying …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
S&P Global cuts Paramount Global's debt rating to junk status, citing the “deterioration of the linear television ecosystem” and higher DTC streaming costs — Analyst says more buyers likely to emerge for media company's assets with ratings cut
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Clothilde Goujard / Politico:
Amazon loses an EU legal bid to delay complying with DSA rules on making its online ad library publicly available, after a judge rejected Amazon's request — Tech giant said it is “disappointed with this decision.” — Amazon lost a legal bid to delay obeying part of the European Union's new content moderation law.
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
RIAA: US recorded music industry revenues grew 8% YoY to $17.1B in 2023, with paid subscription revenues up 11% to $10.1B and paid subscriptions up 6% to 96.8M — The US recorded music industry generated $17.1 billion in 2023. — That's according to the Recording Industry Association of America …
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