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Lacey Rose / The Hollywood Reporter:
Ellen DeGeneres says she is ending her show in 2022, insisting it has been “the plan all along” and is not because of bullying allegations — DeGeneres gets candid about her decision to wrap up the show in 2022, the allegations that nearly sent her packing and the parts that she'll miss most …
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
How CNN changed under Jeff Zucker, as journalists and anchors, traditionally restricted by impartiality standards, show more emotions and air their opinions — As the first presidential debate of the 2020 general election came to a close last fall, CNN's top anchors and political correspondents stepped …
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Detroit News:
Michigan GOP lawmaker introduces a bill that requires fact checkers to register with the state using a $1M fidelity bond, and levies $1K/day fine for violations — Lansing — A Michigan lawmaker who's been at the center of efforts to question the 2020 election introduced a bill Tuesday that would require …
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Bloomberg launches a suite of subscriber-only content, including a daily blog, aimed at the 76% of Odd Lots podcast listeners who are non-subscribers — In February, roughly two and a half years after launching its paywall, Bloomberg Media met a major milestone: 300,000 paying subscribers.
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Ko Bragg / Columbia Journalism Review:
Advocates at nonprofits that aid the poor say media too often seeks help finding people with specific profiles of suffering, rather than building relationships — In the summer of 2020, Tara Raghuveer found herself dealing with a barrage of inquiries from national media outlets.
Peter White / Deadline:
IAB: podcast ad revenue in the US grew 19% in 2020 to hit $842M, up from $708M in 2019 and $479M in 2018, and is set to reach $2B by 2023 — The world of podcasting has grown exponentially over the last few years and it doesn't look like it's slowing down any time soon.
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Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
Former journalist in the UK says LinkedIn froze his account and removed his comments critical of China; LinkedIn has now restored his account and some comments — - Peter Humphrey says critical content was removed by platform — Move raises concerns over LinkedIn policies outside China
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@bradstone, @jamestobyne and @rj_gallagher
Emanuel Maiberg / VICE:
Twitter temporarily restricted the account of Palestinian-American writer reporting on Palestinian protests; the company said the move was an error — The impacted account belongs to Mariam Barghouti, who was on the ground reporting on protests against the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem.
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Bloomberg launches Equality, a vertical to expand its coverage of race, gender, diversity, and fairness within governments, companies, and societies — Bloomberg is expanding its business coverage of race, gender, diversity, and fairness within governments, companies, and societies …
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The New York Times Company:
NYT announces Amanda Morris as its first reporting fellow focused on disability issues — Amanda will join the National desk as The Times's first reporting fellow focused on disability issues. The fellowship is in partnership with the National Center on Disability and Journalism …
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Wired:
Research: Rumble, a video-sharing site popular with conservatives, is more likely than not to recommend videos with misinfo for “vaccine”, “election” searches — Research shows the emergent video platform can recommend conspiracy theories and other harmful content more often than not.
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Financial Times:
English Premier League will roll over £5B domestic TV contract with Sky, BT, and Amazon, after accepting UK demands to give extra funding to lower league teams — English top division has agreed to hand £100m to lower leagues as part of government deal to roll over TV contract
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@theappealunion:
[Thread] The Appeal Union says The Appeal is formally recognizing the union and “pausing layoffs” — Yesterday, we announced our union and requested voluntary recognition from The Appeal's management. Minutes later, they tried to lay off almost a third of our unit. Today, management said they will recognize our union and pause layoffs. Here's our statement: https://twitter.com/...
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
The Appeal staff say the outlet announced retaliatory layoffs minutes after a staff email to management announcing a union drive
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