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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
A majority of 300+ editorial workers at Insider, the news site formerly called Business Insider, say they formed a union with the NewsGuild of New York — Journalists at Insider, the news site formerly called Business Insider, said on Monday that they had formed a union, joining a wave that has swept digital media companies.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Zuckerberg says Facebook is planning a short-form audio product called Soundbites, a podcast discovery tool, and more audio products for the next 3 to 6 months — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said Facebook was launching a suite of new tools and features designed to help users better connect …
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Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Zuckerberg says Facebook is working with Spotify on a music integration project codenamed Project Boombox
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Rachel Abrams / New York Times:
OANN fires Marty Golingan, a producer at the channel since 2016, after he said a majority of its staff don't believe the voter fraud claims that OANN aired — A recent OAN segment said there were “serious doubts about who's actually president,” and another blamed “anti-Trump extremists” for the Capitol attack.
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Penske Media, publisher of Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Variety, has agreed to acquire a 50% stake in the South by Southwest festival — SXSW took a big hit when it was canceled last year because of Covid-19 — Penske Media Corp., the publisher of magazines like Rolling Stone …
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Tariq Panja / New York Times:
A dozen of the world's richest soccer clubs announce a breakaway European Super League, potentially siphoning off Champions League's billions in TV revenues — Real Madrid, Manchester United, Liverpool and Juventus are among the dozen founding members of a league that would upend the sport's structures and economics.
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Letter to MN's governor from a media group says troopers threw an Asian American CNN producer to the ground, asked if she spoke English, and sent her to jail — A CNN producer was reportedly arrested in a shocking, forceful manner last week as Minnesota law enforcement cracked …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Ad revenue was up dramatically in Q1 YoY for some publishers, including Bloomberg Media, Insider, Vice, Bustle Digital Group, and Axios — Subscriptions may be the rage, but businesses of all sorts are pouring money into advertising — digital most of all.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Source: Stewart Bainum Jr. has already begun speaking with other potential investors and hopes to submit a new offer for Tribune within a week to 10 days — Hotel magnate Stewart Bainum Jr.'s effort to buy Tribune Publishing suffered a major setback over the weekend when his partner pull out of the deal.
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Robert Feder:
Tribune says it has terminated negotiations with Newslight following Wyss' withdrawal, leaving Alden as the only one bidding for Tribune
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Sources: Hansjörg Wyss has withdrawn from bidding for Tribune Publishing; Stewart Bainum seeks new financing to pursue the ownership of the newspaper chain
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Dan Froomkin / Washington Monthly:
Facebook's multimillion dollar payoffs to big outlets like NYT through Facebook News undermine industry-wide efforts to help smaller, local newsrooms — Under the cover of launching a little-known feature, the social media giant has been funneling money to America's biggest news organizations …
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James Harkin / Harper's:
A look at Rukmini Callimachi's reporting, as three Middle East reporters for NYT say they raised concerns about her methods as far back as 2014 but were ignored — Caliphate and the perils of reporting online
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New York Times:
Interview with CBS News' Susan Zirinsky on her time at the network, its efforts on strengthening the newsroom, and frustrations with her role as president — In an interview as she prepares to step down as news division head, Susan Zirinsky said, “I feel I have given my entire soul into rebuilding this organization.”
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The Village Voice returned to print in a new issue on Saturday; Brian Calle plans a print issue about four times a year, with the end goal of publishing monthly — Its first print incarnation since 2017 includes an article on New York's mayoral race, and another that revives the paper's tradition of shaming landlords.
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