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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Internal memo: Disney plans to institute a targeted hiring freeze except for “the most critical, business-driving positions” and make “some staff reductions” — KEY POINTS — Disney plans to freeze hiring and cut some jobs, according to an internal memo.
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Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Twitter reactivates its gray “Official” badge for select brands and outlets, after a wave of impersonations, hoaxing, and other chaos by purchased blue checks — Okay, so Twitter broke its own verification system by making the blue check — previously a signal that the account …
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Internal note: Twitter temporarily disabled signing up for Twitter Blue to “help address impersonation issues” affecting brands, politicians, and celebrities — Twitter accounts impersonating celebrities and politicians spread on the site after the company rolled out paid check marks.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Twitter's head of ad sales Robin Wheeler resigned, but Musk convinced her to stay; head of Trust & Safety Yoel Roth confirmed his resignation — Elon Musk, in his first address to Twitter Inc. employees since purchasing the company for $44 billion, said that bankruptcy …
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Twitter marked a Mediaite article critical of Elon Musk as “potentially spammy” on Friday, and diverted users to a warning page saying the URL may be “unsafe” — Twitter deemed a Mediaite article that is critical of the company's new owner Elon Musk as “potentially spammy” …
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
Memo: Omnicom, one of the world's biggest ad firms, recommends its clients like Apple, PepsiCo, and others “pause activity on Twitter”, citing brand safety risk — Omnicom, one of the world's biggest ad firms, representing brands like McDonald's, Apple, and Pepsico …
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Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
NBCUniversal Ad and Partnerships Chair Linda Yaccarino says “there is no surrogate for Twitter” and Elon Musk can learn advertising: “I think we can teach him”
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The New York Times Company:
The New York Times hires Axios national political reporter Jonathan Swan for its politics team, describing him as “a gifted, dogged, and high-impact reporter” — The political reporter is joining the Politics team at The Times. Read more in this note from Politics Editor David Halbfinger …
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Parker Herren / Ad Age:
A letter by The Media Rating Council to its clients shows it has voted to continue the September 2021 suspension of Nielsen's accreditation status — An MRC audit committee voted on the status of the measurement behemoth — The Media Rating Council has voted to continue its suspension …
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Margaret Sullivan / Media Maelstrom:
Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post's former media critic, launches Media Maelstrom, a Substack newsletter about “what's wrong with the press and how to fix it” — Coming soon This is Media Maelstrom, a newsletter about what's wrong with the press and how to fix it.
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Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
Sam Bankman-Fried invested in several nonprofit and for-profit newsrooms over the last year, including Semafor, The Intercept, ProPublica, and Vox — The Bankman-Fried industrial complex is imploding, with massive turmoil brewing for the donor who was seen as the Democratic Party's next great hope.
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
Elon Musk tries, unconvincingly, to portray Twitter as a town square, as he seeks ways to monetize civic participation and control what people say for laughs — Recently, comedy clubs have begun doing this thing that seemed, when I first encountered it, both wildly hypocritical and more than a little sad.
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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Internal messages: Insider EIC Matthew Turner says plans to bring the work of ~60 writers in front of the outlet's paywall have been held up by union bargaining — The business and culture publisher Insider has hit a roadblock in its plan to place more editorial content in front of its paywall …
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