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Alex Barker / Financial Times:
NewsCorp subsidiary News Group Newspapers reports loss of £201M for FY 2020, forcing it to write down The Sun by £84M, as pandemic hits circulation and ads — Pandemic hits circulation and advertising at tabloid newspaper that helped build media baron's empire
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@chassnews, @thattimwalker and @bondhack
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Jeffrey Toobin, fired by The New Yorker and suspended by CNN after exposing himself in a Zoom call with colleagues, returns to CNN as chief legal correspondent — New York (CNN Business)Jeffrey Toobin, CNN's longtime chief legal analyst, has returned to the network eight months …
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Jack Morse / Mashable:
Twitter says it will add a newsletter subscribe button to user profiles in the coming weeks, available to those with a Revue account; Twitter will take a 5% cut — Newsletters are coming to a Twitter profile near you. Or, at least the chance to sign up for them is.
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John Gramlich / Pew Research Center:
To determine a story's trustworthiness, half of US adults consider the outlet an important factor, 47% cite the sources quoted, and 30% cite their gut instinct — Americans see a variety of factors as important when it comes to deciding whether a news story is trustworthy or not …
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Nieman Lab, @johngramlich, @pewresearch, @pewjournalism and @pewjournalism
Axios:
Sources: Fox and News Corp lobbyists have been urging Republican Congress members to support soon-to-be-introduced tech antitrust bills spearheaded by Democrats — Lobbyists for Rupert Murdoch's media companies are appealing to House Republicans to support antitrust bills meant to restrain Big Tech companies, sources tell Axios.
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@ashleyrgold, @pkafka, @alexeheath, @pathedger18, @wexler, @jeffjarvis, Big Technology, Politico, AppleInsider, Fortune, Reclaim The Net, iMore and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Google commits to involve UK's competition and privacy regulators in the development of its Privacy Sandbox proposals to replace third-party cookies on Chrome — - Google will give the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority a say in its plans to replace third-party cookies on Chrome.
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TechCrunch, Insider, The Keyword, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Engadget and GOV.UK, more at Techmeme »
Reuters:
The architect of Australia's law making Big Tech negotiate with news outlets said News Corp proposed the system but rejects idea lobbying made Australia act — The architect of Australia's new law making Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O) and Facebook Inc (FB.O) pay news outlets for content …
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Financial Times, @brucerguthrie and Axios
The Information:
Sources: BuzzFeed is in talks to raise around $200M in bonds on top of cash it gets in a SPAC merger, to help fund the purchase of Complex Networks for $300M — BuzzFeed is in discussions to raise about $200 million in convertible bonds to supplement cash it will raise by merging …
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@mvpeers, @alex, @edmundlee, The Wrap and Insider
Columbia Journalism Review:
New DOJ guidelines meant to protect journalists are unclear about whether bloggers, newsletter authors, or independent journalists will be covered — First implemented in 1970, the Department of Justice's news-media guidelines were meant to restrict the use of certain investigatory tools …
Discussion:
Gizmodo, @freedomofpress, CNN and Knight First Amendment …, more at Techmeme »
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Journalist and author Kyle Chayka says he made $33K in one week selling 131 NFTs to fund two months of his daily entertainment and culture newsletter Dirt — Independent journalist and author Kyle Chayka has funded two months of his daily entertainment and culture newsletter “Dirt” using only NFTs (non-fungible tokens).
Todd Spangler / Variety:
PopSugar founder Lisa Sugar is stepping down from day-to-day management and will remain part of leadership at Group Nine, which acquired PopSugar in 2019 — Lisa Sugar, more than 16 years after launching PopSugar as an entertainment blog, has stepped away from day-to-day management of the brand.
Discussion:
@xpangler
Medium:
Over 400 journalists sign a letter calling for an immediate change in coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including some from WaPo, WSJ, NYT, LA Times — From journalists, to journalists: Why reporting on Palestine has to change. — Finding truth and holding the powerful to account are core principles of journalism.
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