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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
The Chernin Group buys a majority stake in Food52 for $83M, valuing the ecommerce and media startup which offers recipes and home-improvement tips at $100M+ — Food52, a media and e-commerce business, was founded by food journalists from the New York Times
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Leaked messages show the complaint that led to BBC disciplining Naga Munchetty was also about her co-host, Dan Walker, despite the BBC saying otherwise — Exclusive: Walker also subject of original complaint - but BBC standards chief claimed only Munchetty was targeted — Play Video
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The Guardian:
BBC faces a growing backlash for censuring presenter Naga Munchetty for her response to racism; Ofcom to review her words against its own broadcasting code — Corporation faces staff revolt over response to presenter's Donald Trump remarks — The BBC is facing a growing crisis over its decision …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
BBC defends Munchetty censure, saying it applied to her discussion of Trump's motivations for his racist comments, though she didn't directly call him racist
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Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / New York Times:
How a 20-year-old junior at Arizona State University broke the news of the resignation of Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, in the school's student newspaper — An editor at Arizona State University's student newspaper beat everyone else to the news that Kurt Volker had stepped down.
Reuters:
Sources: ByteDance, owner of TikTok, made $7B-$8.4B in revenue in H1 2019, and posted a profit in June after operating at a loss in H1 2019 — BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok and one of the world's most valuable unicorns …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T's John Stankey says DirecTV is rethinking its exclusive deal for NFL's Sunday Ticket package, which ends in 2022; sources: DirecTV loses $500M+/year on it — AT&T executive questions growth potential of football package; says the longtime cornerstone could be ‘less critical to the business over time’
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The Wrap, @modestproposal1, @kevinmdraper, @kaplansportsbiz, @shalini, @stevekopack, @claytravis, @jbflint, @asharma and Awful Announcing
Joe Otterson / Variety:
ICM Partners COO Justin Dearborn and HR Chief Cindy Ballard resigned from the talent agency this week, will remain onboard through the end of the year — Two top executives are out at ICM Partners. — Chief operating officer Justin Dearborn and chief human resources officer Cindy Ballard are leaving …
Poynter:
Global Disinformation Index study finds that adtech companies spend ~$235M per year running ads on sites found by fact-checkers to publish misinformation — How misinformation makes money — There has been much written about how fake news websites and other sources make money from spreading misinformation.
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@zimbalist, @dpfunke, @karlbode, @michellemanafy and @jerdemink
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The Financial Times has closed a WhatsApp group through which it shared one free story about markets per day, both to subscribers and non-subscribers — The Financial Times has closed its Whatsapp group through which it shared one free markets story per day with individuals who had signed up.
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@niemanlab and Talking Biz News
Lakeidra Chavis / ProPublica:
ProPublica journalists recommend books and articles that inspired them — ProPublica Illinois is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. Sign up for our newsletter to get weekly updates written by our journalists.
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@spj_tweets, @dailycopywriter and @penamerica
Alison Flood / The Guardian:
PEN America says the country's largest book ban is in state and federal prisons where book restrictions are “often opaque, subject to little meaningful review” — George Orwell, John Updike and Barack Obama are among the names PEN America says have been illogically withheld from prisoners
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@rorymargraf, @penamerica, @shane_bauer and @nylsacs
Vikas SN / The Economic Times:
Netflix is experimenting in India with making the first episode of its latest Indian original series available to non-subscribers, amid growing competition — Netflix is making available the first episode of its latest India original series ‘Bard Of Blood’ to non-members in the country for a limited time …
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