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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Sources explain how The New Yorker union was organized, initially sidelining the mag's writers, who then felt wary of joining despite a need for better benefits — The 96-year-old magazine, known for its revered writers and sophisticated audience, is being consumed by a labor dispute.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
YouTube will stop accepting ads for its masthead ad unit from certain verticals, including election and political ads, alcohol, gambling, and prescription drugs — The masthead is often the platform's most expensive and sought-after ad unit.
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Alex Woodward / The Independent:
Reality Winner's attorney says she has been granted an early supervised release from prison due to exemplary behavior, as her family seeks a pardon from Biden — NSA whistleblower housed in residential re-entry centre as she completes five-year sentence — Former intelligence specialist …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Dow Jones union: the company's new policy mandates staff get EIC's approval before talking to book publishers and a license to use their own reporting in books — For reporters, side gigs have long been a minefield. — I don't even mean the very real ethical issues that can come with $75,000 speeches …
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Julia Horowitz / CNN:
British channel GB News launches and will attempt to emulate the format of heavily-opinionated US cable TV networks like Fox News and MSNBC — London (CNN Business)GB News wants to make one thing very clear: The upstart TV channel does not see itself as the British Fox News.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
BuzzFeed launches Summer Writers' Challenge, offering for the first time to pay for user-contributed content, up to $10,000 per post depending on its page views — BuzzFeed wants to spark a summer wave of viral quizzes, listicles and more — created by its own fans — by offering …
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New York Times:
An oral history of the Pentagon Papers on the story's 50th anniversary, recounted by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and the NYT reporters who worked on the story — Interviews for this oral history were conducted in the spring of 2021 by Jennifer Harlan and Brian Gallagher.
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Alex Barker / Financial Times:
Sources: UK government is planning far-reaching reforms to protect public service media by reducing Google, Amazon, and Samsung's bargaining power — Ministers want to ensure prominence of channels such as BBC and ITV on smart televisions — Google, Amazon and Samsung's bargaining power …
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BBC:
BBC inquiry finds there was no evidence journalist Martin Bashir was rehired by the BBC to cover up the circumstances around his Diana interview — There was no evidence journalist Martin Bashir was rehired by the BBC to cover up the circumstances around his Diana interview, a BBC inquiry has found.
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Max Willens / Digiday:
The Globe and Mail now has ~270,000 subscribers and generates 70% of its revenues from subscriptions, helped by Sophi, its AI to predict subscriber conversions — After almost eight years in the oven, The Globe and Mail's homegrown artificial intelligence startup Sophi came out hot in 2020.
Simon Owens / Simon Owens's Media Newsletter:
Interviews with Quartz CEO Zach Seward and Membership Editor Walter Frick on betting Quartz's future on paid memberships after becoming independent in 2020 — The business news site went independent in 2020 and is betting much of its future on paid memberships. — 22 hr ago — Welcome!
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Aatish Taseer / The Atlantic:
How Bollywood, which epitomizes the pluralism of India, has become a target for Modi's government and the BJP, including tax investigations and harassment — Its films have always celebrated a pluralistic India, making the industry—and its Muslim elite—a prime target for Narendra Modi.
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