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7:00 PM ET, March 25, 2021

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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Interviews with 14 current and former Medium employees portray a dysfunctional company; sources say Medium has 700K paid subs, suggesting $35M+ in revenue  —  I.  —  Last week, a partnerships manager at Medium working with the White House found that there was a strange problem with the platform …
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Will Oremus / @willoremus:
[Thread] Will Oremus, who has covered platforms, online speech, and tech policy for OneZero, is accepting a buyout from Medium
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Substack is only a “scam” in the same way that modern media is, where star pundits profit and talented reporters go underemployed  —  If you aren't sufficiently broken inside to be an extremely-online journalist — or, worse, a non-journalist who diligently monitors the beefs within …
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Substack Blog:
Substack offers further clarity on its content moderation guidelines, detailing its stance on harassment, doxxing, hate, and more  —  In December, we published a statement about our philosophy on content moderation.  In the time since, content moderation policies across all platforms have become only more consequential and debated.
Eric Lutz / Vanity Fair:
CNN's defense of Chris Cuomo getting priority COVID testing again indicates that CNN seems to have no ethical issue with the relationship between the Cuomos  —  Chris Cuomo never missed an opportunity to tell his “luv guv” big brother what a great job he was doing.
News Corp:
News Corp acquires Investor's Business Daily for $275M; the financial news and research business has ~100K subscribers and will be operated by Dow Jones  —  Digitally-Focused Financial News, Tools and Research Business To Be Operated By News Corp's Dow Jones Division
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap:
The Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune had a $50M drop in revenue in 2020, according to the president of the newspapers' parent company  —  The Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune lost “north of $50 million” in revenue in 2020, company leadership told staffers at an all-hands meeting on Thursday.
Discussion: The Hill, The Wrap and @sharonwaxman
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The New Republic names Michael Tomasky as its top editor and is moving back to Washington, DC from New York  —  The New Republic named a new editor on Thursday and announced that it was moving back to Washington, its home city for most of its 107-year existence.
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
The Kevin Roose column in NYT that was auctioned as an NFT has sold for around $560,000, with proceeds going to NYT's Neediest Cases Fund  —  How much is an NFT of an article in The Paper of Record worth?  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  The New York Times has entered the NFT game …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Mediaite, Insider and The Hill
Miles Parks / NPR:
Misleading articles linking vaccines and death are among the most popular vaccine stories online as multiple outlets write about the same small number of deaths  —  The odds of dying after getting a COVID-19 vaccine are virtually nonexistent.  —  According to recent data from the Centers …
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
PrendeTV, Univision's Spanish-language, ad-supported streaming service is launching March 29 with 35 channels and 30K hours of content  —  Univision Communications held a virtual upfront-like advertising event on Wednesday, touting its new streaming service PrendeTV and promoting growing content investments and global pursuits.
Discussion: Ad Age, Beet.TV and The Streamable
Katherine Jacobsen / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Q&A with The Markup's Nabiha Syed on the upcoming SCOTUS decision on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which affects data journalists who scrape websites  —  At first glance, the connection between data journalism and a Georgia police officer accused of accessing a government database for an improper purpose might seem tenuous.
Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
ViacomCBS buys exclusive US rights to Italy's Serie A soccer championship, and Paramount+ will air 400 games live each season through 2024  —  The three-year deal will see 400 top flight games in Italy, including those with Cristiano Ronaldo and Juventus, air or stream each year through 2024.
Alex Shephard / New Republic:
This week's coverage of the border lacks proper context, ignores the humans at the heart of it, and injects conflict into a relatively drama-free administration  —  On Sunday, ABC's This Week sent its weekly roundtable—excuse me, its Powerhouse Roundtable—on a field trip to the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Politico Playbook criticized for an item that cast Trump's administration as having been more transparent than Biden's on migrant detention at the border
 
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Calvin Reid / Publishers Weekly:
A look at BookClub, a subscription-based, virtual book club for author-led book discussions, which is launching in the spring
Discussion: Variety
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox partners with Comcast's Freewheel, which specializes in digital ads, to offer addressable ads on Fox content viewed on Comcast properties like Xfinity
Mel / @wearemel:
[Thread] Mel, the men's magazine backed by Unilever's Dollar Shave Club, is stopping publishing, ending its ties with Dollar Shave Club, and seeking a new owner
 Earlier Picks: 
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:
A look at Remember the Internet, a series of pocket-sized books dedicated to immortalizing subcultures and combating the ephemerality of being online
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Analysis finds 87% of COVID-19 coverage in the national US media last year was negative, compared to 51% in international media and 64% in scientific journals