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Ben Smith / @benyt:
Memo: NYT will assemble a diverse advisory council to help develop a diversity and inclusion strategy; newsroom to create its own team to study diversity issues — And @nytimes just emailed staff with plans to create “a more modern news organization that benefits from the wisdom of a larger and far more diverse staff.” https://twitter.com/...
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Ben Smith / @benyt:
Memo: WaPo Publisher Fred Ryan promises a stronger culture of diversity, unconscious bias training for managers, a diversity director, new jobs covering race — .@washingtonpost publisher Fred Ryan just sent staff an email promising “a stronger culture of diversity,” and new spending and jobs around covering race https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Bloomberg relaunches CityLab, which it bought from Atlantic Media at end of 2019; executive editor Jennifer Sondag says site will be unpaywalled through 2020 — When Bloomberg acquired CityLab — which reports from the intersection of public policy, urban studies, and city living …
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Kerry Flynn / CNN:
Colin Kaepernick joins Medium's board and will write for Medium publications; Kaepernick Publishing will create stories for Medium about race and civil rights — New York (CNN Business)Colin Kaepernick is expanding his media ambitions. — The athlete-turned-civil-rights- activist …
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Pitchfork staffers staged a four-hour work stoppage Thursday in protest of what they call anti-union initiatives taken by the publication and parent Condé Nast — The influential music site will go dark for four hours on Thursday to bring attention to “clear, demonstrable union-busting …
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Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy:
Filing: the “supplemental” pensions McClatchy stopped paying amid bankruptcy totaled $118M+ at the end of 2019; former CEO Gary Pruitt tops the list at $14.5M — Hundreds of former McClatchy and Knight Ridder employees ranging from CEOs to sports columnists were owed supplemental …
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David Brinkerhoff / USA Today:
The CEO of Gannett's operating company, Paul Bascobert, is leaving; Michael Reed, chairman and CEO of Gannett Co., assumes Bascobert's responsibilities — Gannett Co., on Thursday said that the CEO of its operating company, Paul Bascobert, will leave the company after the board eliminated …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Flipboard debuts Storyboards, letting publishers and verified users create roundups of articles, videos, tweets, and more, as part of its new Curator Pro tool — Flipboard is giving news publishers and other curators on the platform a new way to highlight content through a format called Storyboards.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Spotify signs a multiyear deal with Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment to produce and distribute original scripted podcasts centered on the DC universe — Spotify announced two mega podcast deals in the past 24 hours: A deal with Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment to produce a slate of original podcasts …
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Seb Joseph / Digiday:
TikTok to launch #LearnOnTikTok in Europe, a £13M initiative to pay experts and organizations, like the University of Cambridge, to create educational videos — In the past year, TikTok's growth has intensified thanks to short, quirky dance videos created and adored by its huge Gen Z users base …
CNN:
Sources: heads of 4 outlets overseen by the US Agency for Global Media were fired Wednesday, heightening fear that CEO Michael Pack will politicize the agency — New York (CNN Business)The new chief executive of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) has yet to show up for his job …
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Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters:
France's top court rejects a draft law compelling social media companies to remove hateful content within 24 hours for interfering excessively in free speech — PARIS (Reuters) - France's top court rejected most of a draft law that would have compelled social media giants such as Facebook …
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Amazon is planning to stream four Premier League games for free on Twitch in the UK, starting June 29 — EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is planning to stream live Premier League fixtures for free on Twitch in the UK as it aims to give fans the chance to interact with each other while games are being played.
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