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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Twitter buys Scroll, the $5/month service that removes ads from partner news sites; Scroll's Nuzzel email service will shut down on May 6 — The Nuzzel email service is winding down and the future of Scroll is uncertain — Twitter's acquisition spree continues today with Scroll …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter opens Spaces, its live audio feature, to anyone with 600+ followers and will allow creators to co-host and sell tickets to live events on Spaces — Twitter Spaces, the company's new live audio rooms feature, is opening up more broadly. The company announced today it's making Twitter …
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Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian:
UNESCO report details the epidemic of online abuse against female journalists worldwide and how it is affecting their reporting and personal lives — Misogyny, bigotry and threats ‘cut public trust in critical media’, warns report after major investigation
Kalina Newman / Washington Post:
A look at some TikTok creators, unaffiliated with any traditional media outlet, who are aggregating news, and delivering it to their mostly young followers — On the evening of Election Day 2020, Marcus DiPaola kept hearing the same thing: People were turning off cable news because results were coming in slowly.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Yamiche Alcindor, the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour and once a frequent target of Trump's ire, will become host of the PBS show Washington Week — She succeeds Robert Costa at a program best known as the longtime home of the anchor Gwen Ifill.
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Sharon Tam / Reuters:
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says the government is working on a “fake news” law to tackle “misinformation, hatred, and lies” — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the government was working on “fake news” legislation to tackle “misinformation, hatred and lies …
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@risj_oxford, @benedictrogers, @rasmus_kleis and @mistercommodity
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Q&A with WarnerMedia's DTC chief Andy Forssell, on how HBO Max evolved in its first year, its upcoming ad-supported tier, and international expansion — EXCLUSIVE: Even in a business well-acquainted with comebacks, HBO Max has become a fairly remarkable turnaround story.
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@efs120 and @great_katzby
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bright, a live video platform built on top of Zoom, launches with celeb partners to let fans engage in ticketed video sessions with creators, actors, musicians — What if you could Zoom with your favorite creator and ask them questions? That's the promise of Bright, the new live video …
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
NPR podcasts are helping diversify its audience in terms of race and of age, generating the largest chunk of corporate sponsorship, and enabling experimentation — A cabdriver in Tehran helped Ramtin Arablouei crystallize the idea. — “People in the West, they don't remember anything,” …
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@bethfertig, @doualyx, @simonowens, @lindaholmes, @bobbyallyn, @ramtinarablouei, @jessethorn, @phillatzman, @elaheizadi and Podcast Movement
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Political news startup Recount Media raises $18M Series B; it now has 40+ staff and plans to use the money for newsletters, events, and coverage beyond politics — Recount Media, the two-year-old startup founded by veteran journalists John Battelle and John Heilemann, has raised $18 million …
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@therecount and @jeffjarvis
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sports betting media company Action Network, which has raised $20M and had ~$15M in 2020 revenue, to be sold to Denmark-based rival Better Collective for $240M — Denmark-based Better Collective to buy U.S. betting-analytics firm for $240 million, seeking more scale in dealings with gambling operators
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
HFPA pledges new reforms, including raising membership by 50% over next 18 months with a focus on underrepresented groups and hiring a chief diversity officer — Aiming to beat a self-imposed reform deadline and a Tinseltown firestorm, the board of the besieged Hollywood Foreign Press Association …
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