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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Jeff Bezos' opinion section changes contradict his October 2024 edict that WaPo won't endorse a presidential candidate because it can't be seen as taking a side — Months after insisting he would never allow his personal interests to influence the Post's content, one of the world's richest …
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Gene Weingarten / The Gene Pool:
Source: The Washington Post's media critic Erik Wemple wrote about the changes at its opinion section, but the piece was killed — Hello. — Welcome to a special edition of — Yesterday, at a hastily called meeting of the Opinions section of The Washington Post …
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Memo: WaPo CEO Will Lewis says opinion section changes are “not about siding with any political party” but about “being crystal clear about what we stand for”
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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
The US political press has not dealt with autocrats working this hard to seize power; trading soft coverage for access could fail media audiences and democracy — WASHINGTON — We are not ready for this. — The Washington, D.C., press corps, used to playing small ball for small exclusives …
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: in a tense meeting with journalists, Pentagon Press Secretary Sean Parnell said he'll end the travel pool and implied reporters “trash the warfighter” — Inside a tense off-the-record meeting, the Pentagon's new press chief confronted reporters and indicated they will do away …
Sharon Knolle / The Wrap:
Source: over 40 newsroom employees at the Los Angeles Times have taken buyout offers from owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, including roughly 17 reporters — “We should put out a missing flyer in search of the man who bought our paper and made promises about its future,” one employee tells TheWrap
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Sewell Chan / Columbia Journalism Review:
The last remaining member of the Los Angeles Times editorial board, Carla Hall, says she is taking a buyout, ending her 32-year tenure at the paper — After owner Patrick Soon-Shiong spiked the paper's Kamala Harris endorsement, a staff exodus resulted. — Carla Hall, the last remaining member …
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
Websites and apps for all 32 NFL teams had been collecting detailed consumer data without notice or opt-out choices; the NFL has updated policies to fix issues — Digital data, including information about consumers' precise movements and locations, was shared with ad-tech vendors
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok is preparing to shut down Creator Marketplace, which connects brands with creators, and replacing it with TikTok One, which includes AI tools, on April 1 — TikTok is preparing to sunset its creator marketplace in favor of a new, more expanded experience, the company has informed businesses and creators via email.
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Mark K. Miller / TVNewsCheck:
Nexstar Q4: revenue up 14.1% YoY to $1.49B, ad revenue up 29.6% to $758M driven by election year political advertising, net income of $229M; NXST jumps 11.1% — That resulted in net Income of $229 million, adjusted EBITDA of $628 million, net cash provided by operating activities of $411 million …
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Google Search's new rules for product-review sites upend publishers' business models; Similarweb says Forbes Advisor's traffic fell 83% YoY in January 2025 — New rules for recommendation sites such as Forbes Vetted and CNN Underscored threaten their business models, hurt freelancers
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BBC:
The BBC apologizes and admits “serious flaws” in the making of a documentary on children in Gaza, after criticism that the narrator was a Hamas official's son — The BBC has apologised and admitted “serious flaws” in the making of a documentary about children's lives in Gaza.
Michael Levenson / New York Times:
A Mississippi judge lifts an order requiring a newspaper to remove an editorial, after Clarksdale city officials voted to abandon their libel lawsuit — The judge's order against The Clarksdale Press Register in Clarksdale, Miss., had alarmed press advocates, who said it was a violation of the First Amendment.
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