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Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron is retiring on February 28 after eight years at the paper and nearly 45 years in journalism — Washington Post Publisher and CEO Fred Ryan today shared the following note with Post employees. — Dear Washington Post colleagues,
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Twitter buys newsletter platform Revue, plans to lower its cut of paid newsletter revenue to 5% and let writers host conversations with subscribers on Twitter — Twitter on Tuesday said it has acquired Revue, a newsletter platform for writers and publishers.
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Idaho Statesman Editor Christina Lords confirms she was fired for violating McClatchy's social media policy and doesn't regret her tweet advocating for staff — Before she was appointed the top editor at the Idaho Statesman, Christina Lords was known for going to bat for her staff.
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Idaho News Guild says Idaho Statesman's top editor was fired over her tweet advocating for staff resources in a protest letter sent to McClatchy management
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Larry Kudlow, the former CNBC star and Trump's economic adviser, will host a new show on Fox Business and also appear as an analyst on Fox Business and Fox News — Larry Kudlow, the former CNBC star who served as director of President Donald J. Trump's National Economic Council, is returning to broadcasting.
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Washington Post's Zeus ad tech platform adds video to the range of formats publishers can sell; video ads are especially important for local broadcast companies — The Washington Post will expand its performance software on Tuesday to add video to Zeus, its suite of ad placement and optimization tools.
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NYT will never be able to uniformly enforce its social media behavior policy and should remove the language of journalists being “perceived as biased” from it — Lauren Wolfe made no ripples last May when she started as a freelance editor at the New York Times.
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CBS Television Stations President Peter Dunn and SVP of News David Friend have been placed on leave, after an LAT report alleging racism and misogyny at work — Peter Dunn, president of the CBS Television Stations, and David Friend, senior vice president of news for the stations were placed on the leave …


In letter to creators, CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube has paid $30B+ to creators, artists, and media organizations over the last three years — The company still has work to do with creator transparency — YouTube has paid out more than $30 billion to creators, artists …
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Verizon Media hit $2.3B in Q4 revenue, up 11.4% YoY, its first YoY revenue gain since buying Yahoo in 2017, and reported a net loss of $119M from HuffPost sale — In announcing Q4 earnings Tuesday, Verizon said the results included a net loss of $119 million “primarily related to the disposition of the HuffPost business.”
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Roku and Amazon make a deal to bring the ad-supported IMDb TV to the Roku Channel, expanding the reach of Amazon-owned IMDb TV, which is also on Fire TV devices — In a classic case of co-opetition, Roku inked a deal with Amazon to bring the IMDb TV free, ad-supported streaming service to the Roku platform in the U.S.
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White House press briefings will now include an American Sign Language interpreter; Trump administration was sued over accessibility of its briefings — The White House on Monday announced that its regular press briefings will now include an American Sign Language interpreter.
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YouTube says it is extending its suspension of Trump from posting videos to his channel, but did not say how long the extension would last — The Google-owned platform first suspended Trump on January 12. … YouTube on Tuesday said it's again extending its suspension of former President Donald Trump …
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