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Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
Months before The New Yorker published allegations of sexual harassment against CBS News' Jeff Fager, the Washington Post had the story but didn't publish it — The afternoon of March 7, 2018, was go time, or so we believed. Inside a glass huddle room at the Washington Post …
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Tom Feran / Plain Dealer:
Cleveland daily paper The Plain Dealer has laid off 14 unionized newsroom staff, mostly reporters, as part of its December announcement to cut 29 jobs — CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Plain Dealer on Monday laid off 14 newsroom employees as part of a staff reduction first announced in December.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
A year after his announcement that Facebook would feature less news, Zuckerberg says he wants to create a tab to surface quality news, could pay publishers — The Facebook CEO floated a “news tab to surface more high-quality news,” and said he's willing to write checks to support it.
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Sources: Apple tried hard to sign up The New York Times and WaPo to Apple News+, was flexible on some terms but wanted the papers' entire content offerings — The Times and Post resisted Eddy Cue's hard sell ("We'll make you the most-read newspaper in the world.")
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Ruth Eglash / Washington Post:
Israeli watchdog says it found a network of suspicious social media accounts meant to disrupt and influence elections on behalf of PM Netanyahu's campaign — JERUSALEM — When Ziv Knobler arrived at work Monday, he said, he was surprised to find an image of his Twitter account featured …
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The Financial Times says it has reached 1M paying readers, with digital subscriptions accounting for 75%+ of its circulation — The Financial Times has reached a paying readership of 1m in a new record for the newsbrand that it says has come a year ahead of schedule and on the back of a “strong business performance”.
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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
YouTube is removing UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson's videos from search results and prohibiting him from live streaming, stopping short of an outright ban — The video platform is removing the far-right activist's videos from search results and stopping him live-streaming.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Tom Conrad, ex-Snap VP of product and ex-Pandora CTO, has joined mobile video startup Quibi to lead product and customer support, reporting to CEO Meg Whitman — Tom Conrad has joined Jeffrey Katzenberg's Quibi to lead product and customer support, becoming the latest addition …
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Dan Reilly / Fortune:
Investigative journalist Billy Jensen and retired investigator Paul Holes are launching The Murder Squad, a podcast which will ask listeners to help solve cases — There's no shortage of true crime podcasts these days, but a new one debuting Monday, The Murder Squad, is trying to stand out …
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Charlotte Eyre / The Bookseller:
Publisher HarperCollins has acquired exclusive global rights to publish children's books based on Netflix series “Our Planet”, which is launching this weekend — HarperCollins Children's Books has acquired exclusive global rights to publish children's books based on “Our Planet” …
Erin Lee Carr / The Cut:
In her forthcoming memoir, documentary filmmaker Erin Lee Carr discusses the night her father, beloved New York Times media critic David Carr, passed away — Sitting in the back of the cab, I was frantic. He had emailed me reminding me not to be late, and of course here I was, ten minutes behind schedule.
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Zainab Sultan / Columbia Journalism Review:
Bill Keller reflects on his career, from foreign correspondent at The New York Times to Editor-in-Chief at The Marshall Project, as he prepares to retire — When Bill Keller announced in November 2018 that he would step down from his role of the editor in chief at The Marshall Project …
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