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At the Oscars, Netflix's Roma wins Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Foreign Film, but not Best Picture — “Roma” took home three Academy Awards tonight — though not Best Picture, which went to “Green Book.” — Alfonso Cuarón did win an Oscar for directing the film.
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Interview with The New York Times' CEO Mark Thompson on the importance of NYT's brand in growing the subscriber numbers, how he'd run a local paper, more — “I believe that if you're producing journalism of value, there is no reason to expect that consumers wouldn't be prepared, in some way …
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@akademie_abp and @niemanlab
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How NYT plans to avoid the Trump slump and sign up 10M paying subscribers by 2025 through global expansion, attracting a younger audience via podcasts, and more — Mark Thompson's nautical and military metaphors have generated some ribbing from others at The New York Times.
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Newsonomics

Interviews with current and former Facebook content moderators in US show they make $28K/year, are routinely high at work, and can develop PTSD-like symptoms — The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America — She spent the past three and a half weeks in training …
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@parkermolloy, @gorskon, @andybcampbell and @markdistef, more at Techmeme »

Sultan Mohamed Abuljadayel has been named as the mysterious off-shore purchaser of a stake in London's Evening Standard newspaper — Mohamed Abuljadayel's £25m stake is yet another Middle Eastern interest in UK media — The mysterious off-shore purchaser of a stake …
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Financial Times, @ahmed, @pauljdavies, @jimwaterson, @mattgarrahan and @financialtimes

The Washington Post announces the Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship, a new global opinions program established to honor the late Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi — Award-winning Saudi scholar and activist Hala Al-Dosari named inaugural fellow — The Washington Post today announced the launch …
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@washpostpr, @michellemanafy, @dabeard, @gerddoha, @ikaveri and @ahmed

How TV sports anchors like SportsCenter's Scott Van Pelt are finding new ways to connect with viewers in an age of instant sports highlights on social media — Scott Van Pelt closed an episode of “SportsCenter” last month with a two-minute monologue about the 31st anniversary of his father's death.
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@theginamiller

Q&A with WSJ EIC Matt Murray on Murdoch's hands-off approach to the paper's Trump coverage, how tech has impacted the news business, and the ongoing China story — “Rupert Murdoch has never given me one instruction about how to cover Trump.” — Matt Murray was named editor-in-chief …
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@raju

BuzzFeed Taps WNBC's David Hatcher as Executive Producer of ‘AM to DM’ Talk Show on Twitter — Sports-Betting Venture Action Network Raises $17.5 Million From Ex-UFC Owners, Chernin Group, Pro Sports Teams — Veteran TV producer David Hatcher is now overseeing BuzzFeed News' “AM to DM” …

Trailblazing feminist mag Spare Rib may be axed from the British Library's digital archive if there is no Brexit deal as it will lose EU copyright protections — EU copyright exception would no longer protect British Library scans of pioneering feminist magazine

Craig Newmark on where his motivation to support journalism comes from, how he chooses the beneficiaries, and what he wants to achieve with his philanthropy — Craig Newmark became a billionaire on the back of creating Craigslist, a website for classified ads.
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@tracysheridan, @amywebb and @jeremylittau

Focusing on subscribers, Netflix has different incentives than polarizing ad-based platforms, highlighting what its viewers in 190 countries may have in common — Instead of trying to sell American ideas to a foreign audience, it's aiming to sell international ideas to a global audience.
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@claudferraz, @kainazamaria, @rianvdm and @lthomasnews