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4:50 PM ET, July 21, 2022

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Jon Porter / The Verge:
Facebook splits the Feed on iOS and Android into Home, a TikTok-style tab with recommended content, and Feeds, a chronological tab of followed pages and people  —  While new Feeds tab will show chronological content from pages you actually follow  —  Facebook's almighty News Feed is getting split in two... kind of.
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Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Snap plans to “substantially reduce” hiring, authorizes a stock repurchase program of up to $500M, and locks in CEO and CTO roles until at least January 1, 2027  —  Social media company blames tough economic conditions as it posts net losses of $422mn
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
NewsGuard, which rates news outlets using multiple criteria for credibility, downgrades Fox News from green, or trustworthy, to red, or “proceed with caution”  —  Fox News' credibility score has been downgraded to “red” by media watchdog Newsguard, meaning it “fails to adhere to several basic journalistic standards”.
Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting:
How Industry Dive, which has 26 publications in 23 industry segments and $100M+ in revenue, became profitable, by embracing ads, making smart bets, and more  —  Riches in niches  —  Publishing is often treated as a monolith, but there are many types of publishers with different business models.
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
A profile of Vincent Bolloré, dubbed the “French Murdoch”, whose €20B conglomerate controls Vivendi, which owns Canal+, TV channel CNews, and publisher Hachette  —  The seven-part 2019 American television series “The Loudest Voice” on Roger Ailes …
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Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
The Atlantic's tech and business workers tell management they plan to form a union with ~130 people in jobs like data analysis, software engineering, and sales  —  Workers are following in the footsteps of their editorial counterparts and asking the media company to recognize the union and bargain a contract.
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The BBC agrees to pay damages to a former nanny for false allegations she had an affair with Prince Charles, used to get the Princess Diana Panorama interview  —  False claims that Tiggy Legge-Bourke had affair with Prince Charles ‘were likely spread to help secure exclusive’
 
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Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and others register for a license in Indonesia under which they might have to censor content and hand over users' data
Ryan Barwick / Marketing Brew:
Research: Reddit's brand-safety approach to monetization is cautious, labeling all subreddits as no_ads until a manual human review applies some_ads or all_ads
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Taliban agents “detained, abused, and threatened” Lynne O'Donnell, an Australian veteran war reporter, and forced her to tweet retractions for accurate articles
Roshni Neslage / American Journalism Project:
American Journalism Project announces $3.15M to support three nonprofits: The City, ICT, and Verite, a sister newsroom of Mississippi Today launching this fall
Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia:
Baidu's video streaming service iQiyi signs a content deal with Douyin, TikTok's sister app in China, ending a long dispute over alleged copyright infringement
The Guardian:
The Guardian reports £255.8M revenue for the year ending April 3, 2022, up 13% YoY, and £6.7M net operating inflow; digital revenue surpassed print, a first
 

 
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Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China
 
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