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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Investigation: six Alabama and Florida outlets that attacked critics of power companies have financial ties to Matrix, a consulting firm the utilities hired — NPR's David Folkenflik reported this story with Mario Ariza and Miranda Green of Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates …
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Twitter pilots Blue for Business with some accounts, helping publishers identify brands and key employees associated with them via badges — Twitter launched “Blue for Business” last week alongside relaunching Twitter Blue. At that time, the social network had assigned a gold checkmark to businesses.
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James B. Stewart / New York Times:
A profile of CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht, whose first major act was to kill CNN+, as he tries to reverse CNN's revenue, profit, and ratings decline in 2022 — The network's chief executive knew the job would not be easy. But this hard? — When Chris Licht told his boss …
Jessica Elgot / The Guardian:
The UK's IPSO says Jeremy Clarkson's Sun column, where he said he “hated” Meghan Markle, received over 17,500 complaints, more than all the complaints in 2021 — Ipso receives in excess of 17,500 objections to Sun article, more than the regulator received in the whole of 2021
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
After negotiations with the UK's NUJ, the FT agrees to a £4,200 pay rise for those earning up to £42,000 per year and a 10% hike for those on £42,000 to £50,001 — The FT's is the largest cumulative pay rise recently reported by Press Gazette.
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Andrew Dalton / Associated Press:
Jurors find Harvey Weinstein guilty on three of seven charges of rape and sexual assault at the disgraced movie mogul's Los Angeles criminal trial — Harvey Weinstein was found guilty Monday of rape at a Los Angeles trial in another #MeToo moment of reckoning, five years after he became a magnet for the movement.
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
A profile of Bari Weiss, who recently co-founded The Free Press and who Elon Musk let nose around Twitter's internal docs but has since been blocked by him — Last Monday, Bari Weiss asked me what my angle was in writing about her. I told her I wondered whether, showered with adulation …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vice Media expects to miss its 2022 revenue goal by over $100M, generating ~$600M, roughly flat compared to 2021, a blow as the company pursues a sale — The new-media company has been in sale talks with Greek broadcaster Antenna Group and has sought a valuation of around $1.5 billion
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Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
The European Commission sends Meta a statement of objections for alleged antitrust breaches over tying Marketplace to Facebook and imposing unfair trading terms — Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a complaint from European Union antitrust watchdogs over concerns it's unfairly squeezing …
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Nielsen: Fox News' The Five tops Tucker Carlson Tonight as 2022's most watched cable news show with ~3.4M viewers on average, a first for a non-primetime show — There is a new cable news ratings champion. — Nielsen data for 2022 rank the Fox News round table program “The Five” …
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
The Television Academy scraps “variety talk” and “variety sketch” Emmy categories and adds “outstanding talk series” and “outstanding scripted variety series” — The Television Academy is taking another stab at resolving its Emmys variety talk and variety sketch category conundrum.
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Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Antenna: 9% of Netflix's US sign-ups in November were for its ad tier; 57% of subscribers to the plan were re-joining or new signups, while 43% downgraded — Streaming giant's ad-backed plan accounted for 9% of new signups in the U.S., according to subscription-analytics firm Antenna
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