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Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:
A look at the issues at Jezebel since G/O Media hired Lea Goldman as deputy editorial director in March; nine writers and editors have left since her hiring — In March, G/O Media — the parent company of several former Gawker Media websites including the feminist blog Jezebel …
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Axios Local expands to 11 new cities for a total of 25, with plans for 25 more cities in 2022; CFO says it is on pace to earn $5M in revenue by year end — Axios Local is going bicoastal. The city-based network of free, local newsletters announced Thursday morning that it is expanding to 11 new locations …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Russian tech exec Aleksej Gubarev drops his defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed over its publication of Steele dossier — A Russian internet entrepreneur has dropped a four-year legal battle against BuzzFeed over its publication of the so-called Steele dossier, a politically charged compendium …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify expands real-time lyrics to all users globally in partnership with Musixmatch, after initially launching in 26 markets — After years of ignoring consumer demand for in-app lyrics, particularly in the U.S., Spotify announced today it will make a new Lyrics feature available to all global users …
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The Marshall Project:
The Marshall Project is launching a newsroom in Cleveland in 2022, which will collaborate with local outlets and is partially funded by a Gund Foundation grant — New support from the Gund Foundation to drive expansion of local investigative reporting — The Marshall Project …
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Washington Post:
Judge bans MSNBC from Rittenhouse trial after police say they stopped a producer following the jurors' bus; NBC denies its freelancer meant to contact jurors — KENOSHA, Wis. — The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial banned MSNBC from the Kenosha County Courthouse on Thursday …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Hulu launches Shop Hulu, a site selling limited-edition collections of clothes and lifestyle products related to its content library — This summer, Netflix launched its own shopping site that allowed fans to purchase apparel, accessories and other lifestyle products from their favorite shows, like “Stranger Things.”
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Heartland Signal, a Midwest politics news site, launches in combination with existing radio station WCPT, both backed by Democratic donor Fred Eychaner — A major Democratic donor is funding a new media outlet that launched Thursday, aimed at covering state and local races in the Midwest …
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Reuters:
Rupert Murdoch accuses Google and Facebook of trying to silence conservative voices and cites a lawsuit claiming they colluded on digital ad market manipulation — Rupert Murdoch renewed his attacks on Google and Facebook during News Corp's annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday …
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A look at Jessica Huseman's Friendly State News, which offers low-cost training to newsrooms and freelancers in concrete journalism skills like FOIA requests — “If I was queen for a day, what I would honestly do is fire every journalism professor and hire adjuncts working in the field.
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Henry Powderly / Search Engine Land:
Twitter quietly updates its developer guidelines to say AMP support will be phased out by Q4; some publishers report sharp Twitter referral declines — With social media referrals to AMP pages cut down by the change, the reasons for supporting AMP are getting fewer.
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@ow, @mattietk, @flaviocopes and @henrypowderly, more at Techmeme »
Associated Press:
NBC keeps US rights for English and Spanish language broadcasts of the English Premier League; source says the bid was $2.7B+ over six years — NBC retained U.S. English- and Spanish-language broadcast rights to England's Premier League with a bid of more than $2.7 billion over six years …
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