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Vox Media will no longer license its Chorus content management system to publishers; the existing six clients will have 18 months to migrate off the platform — Publishers using the platform will have 18 months to migrate their content — The digital media company Vox Media …
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@vinnysgreen, @mediaevan and @markstenberg3

Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says she took the screenshots of internal systems that Bari Weiss shared and that “reporters were not accessing user DMs” — Elon Musk is giving outside writers unprecedented access to internal Twitter Inc. information …
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Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau:
[Thread] The “bombshell” Twitter Files show the value of skeptical editors, who strengthen stories by poking holes in reporting that uses cherry-picked examples — Can think of several moments when as a young reporter I thought I had a bombshell story and then it became a merely average story or not news at all after an editor poked at it with skeptical questions. Beware media folks who think they're too big-brained for editorial standards. https://twitter.com/...
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Kali Hays / Insider:
Sources: Twitter added Bari Weiss to its Slack and gave her a company laptop and access to employee systems, which a source says is typically just for staff
Sources: Twitter added Bari Weiss to its Slack and gave her a company laptop and access to employee systems, which a source says is typically just for staff
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Sources: LLCs tied to the CEO of crypto news site The Block secretly received $43M in Alameda loans, used in part to buy and run the site; CEO has now resigned — The Block, a media company that says it covers crypto news independently, has been secretly funded for over a year with money funneled …
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A look at the differences between newspaper strikes before the internet and nowadays, NYT Guild member factions, and what management has and hasn't offered — As they have been threatening to do for months now, the New York Times newsroom went on a one-day strike today. — As a reader, you might not have noticed.
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@margotroosevelt, @shawnmccreesh, Pittsburgh Union Progress, @eyokley, @intelligencer, @joshkraushaar, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Desk and NPR

Twitter emails advertisers about plans to launch controls to prevent their ads from showing up next to tweets with certain keywords, as soon as next week — Twitter Inc will roll out new controls as soon as next week to let companies prevent their ads from appearing above …
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Ars Technica, Gizmodo, @patrickcoffee, @ashnaguliani, @esreif, Street Fight, MediaPost, @caseynewton, @blackamazon and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
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Molly White / @molly0xfff:
[Thread] Bloomberg, Dow Jones, The Financial Times, and The New York Times intervene in FTX's bankruptcy case, seeking to unseal customer and creditor details — A group of media outlets—Bloomberg, the NYT, Dow Jones & Co, and the Financial Times—just filed a motion to intervene in the FTX case, requesting that FTX be required to unseal customer and creditor lists.
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Bloomberg, The Block, @jwverret, @molly0xfff, @molly0xfff and CourtListener

Sources: Brad Pitt sells a 60% stake in Plan B Entertainment to French conglomerate Mediawan, valuing his production company in the low hundreds of millions — - Brad Pitt has sold a 60% stake in his production company, Plan B, to French company Mediawan. — Plan B helped make …
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Wall Street Journal, The Hollywood Reporter, Financial Times, Variety, @dalter007, @richlightshed, IndieWire, The Wrap and @sherman4949

After prominent Pakistani TV journalist Arshad Sharif was shot dead in Nairobi, a fact-finding team sent by Pakistan concluded the killing was a targeted murder — A team set up by the Pakistani government to probe the killing of a well-known Pakistani journalist in Nairobi …
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@herewardholland and The Indian Express

Memo: Nancy Daniels, who oversees Turner's networks and several Discovery channels, and Jane Latman, who leads Food Network, are leaving Warner Bros. Discovery — EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Daniels, who oversees the Turner networks and a number of Discovery channels, and Jane Latman …
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The Hollywood Reporter, @christodoyle, The Wrap and @jbflint

IFJ: 67 journalists and media workers were killed on the job globally in 2022, mostly due to the Ukraine war, chaos in Haiti, and criminal groups in Mexico — Russia's war in Ukraine, chaos in Haiti and rising violence by criminal groups in Mexico contributed to a 30% spike in the number …
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IFJ, New York Daily News, Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media and European Federation …

A look at theories about The New York Times' bestseller list process and how publishers and authors game the list, including by focusing on preorder incentives — Publishing insiders tell Esquire why they find “the list” so frustrating—turns out, it's a data project full of contradictions.
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@lbmcgrath, @esquire, @esquire and @jeannakadlec