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1:25 PM ET, February 9, 2020

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David Bauder / Associated Press:
CBS News president called threats against Gayle King “reprehensible” after King was criticized for asking about Kobe Bryant's rape charge in an interview  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The CBS News chief called threats against journalist Gayle King “reprehensible” Saturday as backlash grew …
Edmund Lee / New York Times:
A look at the profitable subscription-based tech news site The Information, which Jessica Lessin says is expected to reach $20M in sales by the end of 2020  —  Jessica Lessin's online tech publication costs $399 a year and has no ads.  Silicon Valley's elite is eating it up.
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
A look at New Hampshire's WMUR, a Hearst-owned station watched by 56% of the state's households weekly and which took in ~$40M in political advertising in 2016  —  The unsuccessful 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns of publishing scion Steve Forbes may have faded from memory.
@CTGuild / Chicago Tribune Guild:
[Thread] Tribune Publishing's Chicago-area newsrooms are losing more than a dozen staffers who chose to take buyouts in the most recent round of cuts  —  Today we mark the departures of more than a dozen colleagues, both in and out of the Guild, across all Chicago-area Tribune Publishing newsrooms, who have chosen to take the most recent round of buyouts. We wish them the best in this new era for their careers and their lives.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Sources: new Tribune Publishing CEO Terry Jimenez cut at least six positions ranked VP or higher, including that of Grant Whitmore, former Daily News publisher  —  Even the ax men are getting axed at Tribune Publishing.  —  The struggling newspaper giant's new boss has unleashed a bloodbath …
Maria Repnikova / New York Times:
Journalists in China have managed to cover the coronavirus outbreak by veiling criticism in human-interest stories and drawing on expert commentary  —  Reporters and citizen-journalists in China are asking hard questions about the crisis.  Why is the government letting them?
ESPN:
ESPN's Jessica Mendoza, who was criticized for working as both ESPN analyst and NY Mets adviser, resigns from the Mets, gets pulled from Sunday Night Baseball  —  Jessica Mendoza has signed a multiyear extension with ESPN and will no longer continue in her role as baseball operations adviser …
Muri Assunção / New York Daily News:
Elena Milashina, who has won awards for reporting on the torture of gay men in Chechnya, was beaten up by a crowd at a hotel in the Chechen capital of Grozny  —  A prominent investigative Russian journalist and a human rights lawyer were attacked late Thursday evening by a gang in the lobby …
Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:
The author of California's AB5 law says she'll seek amendments to remove restrictions on freelance journalists, cutting out the 35 article submission cap  —  The author of AB5, California's new gig-work law, said Thursday that she'll seek amendments that remove some restrictions …
 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

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