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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
The Washington Post will stop publishing its Sunday magazine on December 25, cutting the jobs of 10 staffers; some content will shift to the Style section — Executive editor Sally Buzbee said the magazine would end ‘in its current form’ after printing its final issue on Dec. 25.
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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
15 journalists from digital news outlet El Faro, based in El Salvador, sue NSO Group in US federal court claiming damages from Pegasus spyware infections — When Roman Gressier, an American reporter working in El Salvador, found out that he and his colleagues were being surveilled …
Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
Pathmatics: Apple's Twitter ad purchases grew from $989K in October to $1M+ in November; Elon Musk said Apple “mostly stopped advertising on Twitter” on Nov. 28 — Musk tweeted that Apple had all but stopped buying ads on Twitter. The iPhone maker's ad purchases had actually increased, according to an ad analytics firm.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Chris Licht tells CNN staff that layoffs are underway as part of a strategy shift, starting with “a limited number of individuals”, mostly paid contributors — “It will be a difficult time for everyone,” CNN EO Chris Licht told staff in an email Wednesday.
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How Twitter users in China have been circumventing the nation's Great Firewall and fighting spam to get footage of protests out to the rest of the world — Chinese users employ VPNs to get videos and images out of the country, while fighting spam — Why Tesla's China Ties Could Be a Problem for Twitter
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David Z. Morris / CoinDesk:
As FTX collapsed, mainstream news organizations often failed to give a straightforward assessment of exactly what happened and potential crimes involved — Sam Bankman-Fried is a con man and fraudster of historic proportions. But you might not learn that from the New York Times …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR says it needs to cut $10M+, or 3% of its budget, from the current fiscal year ending next September 30 and plans to nearly freeze hiring and avoid layoffs — NPR will need to cut at least $10 million from the current fiscal year ending next September 30, the network's chief executive …
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Matthew Keys / Fierce Video:
Ohio's AG files a motion asking that two of the state's pension systems become lead plaintiffs in a shareholder lawsuit accusing WBD of securities violations — The Ohio Attorney General has filed a motion in federal court requesting to have two of the state's pension systems appointed …
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Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Twitter says it's expanding recommended tweets to all users, including those who may not have seen them in the past — Twitter is now pushing more tweets from accounts users don't already follow into their timelines. The company revealed that it's now surfacing recommendations to all its users …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Research: women of color are “almost completely locked out” of the UK news industry and face “extraordinary exclusion” across the US news industry — Women of colour are “almost completely locked out” of the UK news industry making them “effectively invisible”, a new report has found.
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Stephen Engelberg / ProPublica:
ProPublica posts an editor's note about its Wuhan lab story after reevaluating what some called a mistranslation, and says “the totality of reporting” is sound — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
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Ariel Shapiro / The Verge:
Spotify releases Wrapped 2022 for users, adding a “music personality” feature, and says Joe Rogan, Emma Chamberlain, and others were its top podcasters — Spotify Wrapped is here, and with it, a slew of year-end charts, data, and graphics ripe for sharing.
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