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1:35 PM ET, August 29, 2022

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Calder McHugh / Politico:
A profile of Jelani Cobb, the Columbia Journalism School's new dean, as some say journalism schools feel slightly anachronistic and students worry about debt  —  Everyone is in their back-to-school finest.  For the incoming Columbia Journalism School class, this means …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBC launches Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts in 170 countries and regions, with 400+ hours of exclusive programming, for $2.99/month or $29.99/year in the US  —  True crime is among the most popular podcast content categories — and now NBC's “Dateline,” one of the genre's OGs, is looking to cash in.
Discussion: Digiday, TechCrunch and AppleInsider
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Poynter and NewsGuild: Gannett's August 2022 layoffs cut at least 70 to 90 newsroom jobs, after a 35% drop in the newspaper's workforce from 2019 to 2021  —  The latest cutbacks at Gannett come amid an industry-wide trend of shrinking newspaper newsrooms  —  The only full-time news reporter …
Kurt Gessler:
Tribune Publishing says disabling Google's AMP led to very little impact on mobile search referrals, as year-long drops mostly aligned to broader search trends  —  Ahead of its June 2021 algorithm update, Google made a significant announcement as part of its shift to emphasize overall page experience …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A look at the growing divergence between critics' reviews and viewers' ratings of top movies over the years; 2022 so far has the largest opinion gap to date  —  Good afternoon from Los Angeles, wherever you may be.  Earlier this year, I noticed that critics seemed especially critical of the new crop of big movies.
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
A look at The Washington Post and Imagine deal to create content based on the paper's archive and current reporting, with four projects actively in development  —  Brian Grazer, Bryan Lourd, and Fred Ryan dish on the DC paper's partnership with Imagine and CAA, which already has four projects in development.
Discussion: @genepark
Vikram Dodd / The Guardian:
Some UK police forces are asking officers to disclose personal ties with news reporters; some policing figures and freedom of speech groups oppose the clampdown  —  Freedom of speech groups raise over clampdown, which only came to light by accident  —  Police chiefs have been issuing secret …
Daniel Van Boom / CNET:
Eminem and Snoop Dogg performed at MTV's Video Music Awards in Yuga Labs' game Otherside, morphing into the Bored Yacht Ape NFT avatars that they own  —  Just like the video clip for the song, Eminem and Snoop Dogg performed “From The D 2 The LBC” as their Bored Apes during Sunday's Video Music Awards.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix may launch its ad-supported tier in 2022 in 6+ markets, and plans to charge $7 to $9 per month in the US, selling ~4 minutes of ads per hour  —  Netflix Inc. is considering pricing its new advertising-supported tier at $7 to $9 a month, half as much as its current …
Jessica Votipka / Grand Island Independent:
In Nebraska, high school administrators shut down a journalism program after students published editorials on LGBTQ topics, which some call an act of censorship  —  Northwest Public Schools administrators eliminated its journalism program in June in what some former students and press freedom advocates call an act of censorship.
 
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Brandon Katz / The Wrap:
SEC filing: Triller raised $200M and is targeting a $3B valuation in its IPO before the end of 2022; source: Triller is on track for a $250M run rate in 2023
Gwendolyn Glenn / WFAE 90.7:
Q&A with The Charlotte Observer's Rana Cash, on her first year as executive editor, reimagining the paper, connecting with communities of color, and more
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Audacy, the radio and podcasting company once called Entercom, is at risk of being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange as its stock remains under $1/share
Discussion: Digital Music News
Ariel Shapiro / The Verge:
George Lopez joins other comedians in suing SiriusXM's Pandora, saying he is entitled to two copyrights, one for recording and one for underlying literary work
Discussion: Ars Technica
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBC has discussed giving the 10pm hour to local TV stations to program every day as a cost-cutting move, given broadcast TV's declining popularity
Kirk McKeand / USA Today:
USA Today updates its article alleging Amazon is buying EA, saying that Amazon is not expected to bid and USA Today's partner GLHF violated sourcing standards