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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.
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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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Sources: YouTube execs ignored internal warnings, concerns about the spread of toxic videos, and proposals to change recommendations, in favor of engagement — A year ago, Susan Wojcicki was on stage to defend YouTube. Her company, hammered for months for fueling falsehoods online …
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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.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Janine Gibson, who left her role as editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News UK in January, has joined the Financial Times as special projects editor — Janine Gibson, who left her role as Buzzfeed UK editor-in-chief in January, has been appointed as an assistant editor at the Financial Times.
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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
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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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Amy Hollyfield / Tampa Bay Times:
Tampa Bay Times promotes national politics correspondent Steve Contorno to political editor — Contorno has been with the Times since 2013. — Political editor is a storied role at the Tampa Bay Times and a pinnacle in Florida political reporting. — On Tuesday, the Times named Steve Contorno its new political editor.
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Sources: Bianna Golodryga, who joined “CBS This Morning” as a co-anchor less than six months ago, has been cut from the show by Susan Zirinsky — The new boss at CBS News, Susan Zirinsky, reportedly thinks the morning news show's four anchors are too many.
Joe Otterson / Variety:
Paramount Television and Anonymous Content have acquired the TV rights to journalist Susan Orlean's non-fiction bestseller “The Library Book” — Paramount Television and Anonymous Content, in association with Brillstein Entertainment, have acquired the TV rights to Susan Orlean's best-seller …
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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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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Former The Federalist senior contributors Bethany Mandel and Rebecca Cusey say they left the conservative online magazine over DC McAllister's toxic behavior — The conservative blogger DC “Denise” McAllister was fired from her role at Ben Domenech's site The Federalist over a wildly homophobic meltdown …
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Damon Beres / OneZero:
Q&A with Taylor Lorenz, “internet whisperer” of The Atlantic, on “artisanal” apps, not feeling bad about being on her phone 24/7, and muting notifications — Talking bespoke apps and ‘moon playlists’ with the tech journalist and meme whisperer … aylor Lorenz gets the internet.
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