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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
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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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Interviews with current and former Facebook content moderators in US show they make $28K/year, some develop PTSD, and a few are radicalised by fringe content — The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America — She spent the past three and a half weeks in training …
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Washington Post:
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, @brrubin, @samahhadid, @abo1fares, @karenattiah, @michellemanafy, @dabeard, @gerddoha, @ikaveri and @ahmed
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Mark Chandler / The Bookseller:
A new book on Khashoggi's murder, written by an anonymous ex-FT reporter, claims the journalist had intelligence on Trump which was a threat to Saudi Arabia — Gibson Square is publishing the first book on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder at the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
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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Bloomberg, @akademie_abp, @niemanlab and @michaelluo
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
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 and Page Six
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
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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Press Gazette, Financial Times, @ahmed, @pauljdavies, @jimwaterson, @mattgarrahan and @financialtimes
Alex Wong / New York Times:
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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@darrenheitner, @akshaysawaiet and @theginamiller
Akshat Rathi / Quartz:
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
Claire Atkinson / NBC News:
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
Todd Spangler / Variety:
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” …
Lisa O'Carroll / The Guardian:
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
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