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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Condé Nast's Vogue and GQ will make content exclusively for TikTok, including hashtag challenges and print inserts — Vogue and GQ will make content exclusively for TikTok, both for their own respective brand channels and in print, under a new deal Condé Nast signed with the social media platform.
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The Atlantic:
Maria Ressa, Rappler CEO and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, joins The Atlantic as a contributing writer covering democracy, press freedom, and the social web — As The Atlantic continues its editorial focus on exposing the crisis facing democracy and the rise of global authoritarianism …
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@adriennelaf, @blackamazon and @mckaycoppins
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Private equity firms Apollo and Standard General buy local TV giant Tegna, which owns 64 stations in 51 markets, for $5.4B, giving it a ~$8.6B valuation — Standard General and Apollo will pay $24 share for the company, which owns 64 stations in 51 markets.
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix is testing Fast Laughs, a stream of short, curated comedy clips, on its TV app in select English-speaking countries — Fast Laughs is rolling out to ‘select English-speaking countries’ — Netflix is testing Fast Laughs, a stream of comedy clips hand-picked by Netflix, on its TV app.
Lily Kuo / Washington Post:
As China walks a tightrope over the Ukraine crisis, Beijing-linked Horizon News accidentally posted apparent coverage rules banning posts unfavorable to Russia — China did not explicitly endorse Moscow's latest moves toward Ukraine but still recognized on Tuesday what it called Russia's …
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Emily Atkin / HEATED:
Emily Atkin, who launched Heated with a $20K Substack advance in 2019, says the climate newsletter is going on hiatus as she takes “a big digital break” — Why HEATED is going on temporary hiatus. — I've been thinking a lot lately about resilience: the ability to remain strong in the face of difficulties.
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Sam Kille / Report for America:
Permanent community news funds, formed by community foundations working with local news leaders, are a major new trend for supporting local news — READ THE ‘COMMUNITY NEWS FUND’ REPORT — Report for America today released a report that identified a major new trend - the creation of …
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@report4america
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
WSJ and Google Ad Manager study finds advertisers that used first-party data in campaigns were 37% more likely to run another campaign — The Wall Street Journal welcomes its cookieless future, and advertisers have taken notice. The publisher, in a case study conducted in partnership …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Spotify debuts Dolly Parton and James Patterson's novel “Run, Rose, Run” as its first bookcast, blending story narration with original music and sound — Spotify on Wednesday debuted its first “bookcast” — an audio experience that blends story narration with with original music and sound.
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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Roku launches Advertising Watermark to help advertisers and publishers verify the authenticity of their video ads and defend against “device spoofing” — To reduce advertising fraud in the connected TV (CTV) and streaming businesses, Roku is starting up a new free technology …
Kurt Erickson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Missouri police say a flaw in a state education webpage had gone undetected since 2011, after MO's governor attempted to prosecute a reporter for being a hacker — JEFFERSON CITY — A police investigation released on Monday shows that a flaw in a Missouri Department of Elementary …
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Ars Technica, VICE, Slashdot, Krebs on Security, @fpwellman and @robpegoraro
Tali Arbel / Associated Press:
Howard University receives a $2M donation to digitize its Black Press Archives, which date back to the 1970s and contain over 2,000 newspaper titles — Howard University has received a $2 million donation to digitize a major collection of Black newspaper archives in hopes of making …
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