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10:05 AM ET, February 23, 2022

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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.
Discussion: @markdistef
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: @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.
Discussion: Vanity Fair and @sarafischer
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 …
Discussion: Next TV and Ad Age
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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K.J. Yossman / Variety:
Disney EMEA, BBC Studios, and Sony Pictures join the Digital Entertainment Group International trade body; Google and Warner Bros. are already members
Discussion: Media Play News
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen expands its Media Impact planning tools, adding streaming platform ratings to help advertisers and media buyers plan cross-platform campaigns
Discussion: Variety
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Boris Johnson says UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has asked Ofcom to review whether RT's news channel license should be suspended
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
An update on some of the amateur sleuths, including Claude Taylor and Louise Mensch, who built large social media followings with unfounded claims about Trump
Wall Street Journal:
Mexico's president calls reporters “mercenaries” and asks them to reveal their salaries over investigations of his son's use of an oil executive's $1M residence
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Working paper: private equity firms, which in 2019 owned 23% of US newspapers, reduced local coverage more than other owners but drove more digital subscribers
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Andrew Kersley / Press Gazette:
BBC journalists Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel leave and join Global to launch a podcast, host an LBC show, and provide commentary on the radio station's website
Associated Press:
NBC's decision to spend $7.75B on Olympics rights through 2032 looks shaky after Beijing, a buzz-free, hermetically sealed event, saw viewers staying away
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Polk Awards: The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The New Yorker win two awards each; WSJ's Facebook Files wins the business reporting prize
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy
 
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