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Shirin Ghaffary / Vox:
Examining the reasoning of journalists who remain on Twitter, like WaPo's Taylor Lorenz and NBC News' Ben Collins, and of those who have left, like Jelani Cobb — Under Elon Musk's leadership, journalists have even more of a love-hate relationship with the platform.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Matt Taibbi posts internal Twitter documents showing the company's 2020 debate over the handling of content related to NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story — The new disclosures, touted as “The Twitter Files,” were posted in a lengthy Twitter thread by investigative reporter and author Matt Taibbi (and retweeted by Musk).
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Elon Musk thinks the “Twitter Files” show that Twitter staff nefariously helped Joe Biden, but all they show is a team debating a difficult moderation decision — Free-speech crusader Elon Musk isn't happy with Twitter's years-old decision to suppress a news story …
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Lucy Craymer / Reuters:
New Zealand plans to introduce legislation requiring companies like Meta and Google to pay local publishers for news, modeled after laws in Australia and Canada — The New Zealand government said it will introduce a law that will require big online digital companies such as Alphabet Inc's …
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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013 — Andrew Anglin spent his first day back on Twitter defending Ye's antisemitic rants. — Andrew Anglin ― …
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John Arlidge / The Sunday Times:
An interview with BBC chairman Richard Sharp about the licence fee, new forms of funding, moving business teams to Manchester, maintaining “impartiality”, more — Richard Sharp celebrated the BBC's centennial year not by enjoying newly discovered episodes of Hancock's Half Hour, but by developing a man crush on Tony Adams.
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Loree Seitz / The Wrap:
Semafor's climate and energy editor Bill Spindle left last week, citing the outlet's “over-dependence on Chevron advertising” — Semafor's climate and energy editor Bill Spindle has exited the publication after several months after saying his tenure was “marred by an over-dependence …
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Tyler Falk / Current:
A survey of 2,310 US radio stations: white employees made up 75.4% of noncommercial newsrooms in Q4 2021, down from 78.8% YoY, vs. 92.1% of commercial newsrooms — A survey tracking workforce diversity in radio and television found that racial diversity has grown among the news staffs of noncommercial radio stations.
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France 24:
Turkish journalists and press advocates raise concerns over a media law passed in October that could censor the media and silence dissent ahead of elections — A new law gives Turkey fresh ammunition to censor the media and silence dissent ahead of elections in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans …
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Bloomberg
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Sources: Sky News' head John Ryley will step down on Monday after 16 years in the job, as the network faces long-term challenges adapting to a post-TV future — Exclusive: departure of John Ryley, who has been in charge of Sky News since 2006, expected to be announced on Monday
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Press Gazette, @jimwaterson, Sky News, @emilybell, @timgatt and Financial Times
Anthony Crupi / Sportico:
Diamond Sports Group votes to block parent company Sinclair Broadcasting from having any further input into the day-to-day operations of its Bally Sports unit — Just days after taking a $1 billion impairment loss on its troubled Bally Sports unit, the board of Diamond Sports Group has voted …
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Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Research analyzing the top 20 articles for five days on UK news sites finds women had 51% of bylines at the Mirror, 46% at the Guardian, and 33% at Mail Online — Ethnic minority voices are lacking on leading news website homepages. — Women now make up more than four in ten bylines …
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