Mediagazer: Some telehealth companies are running social media ads promoting drugs for unapproved uses, showing benefits and paid testimonials but not risks or side effects (Wall Street Journal)

CNN:

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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:

Reuters reaches a tentative deal with its unionized US journalists that includes 10% raises over three years, a month after members voted to authorize a strike — Thomson Reuters Corp. reached a tentative contract agreement with its unionized US journalists, including pay raises and terms …

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Ariel Shapiro / The Verge:

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The New York Times Company:

Eli Saslow, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for explanatory reporting at The Washington Post, is joining The New York Times as a writer at large — The Pulitzer-winning feature reporter joins The Times as a writer at large. Read more in this note from Sam Dolnick and Claire Gutierrez.

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Q&A with YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan on buying NFL residential rights, giving creators game footage, no 4K broadcast plans, multiscreen, and more — YouTube won the big bidding war for NFL Sunday Ticket yesterday, beating out Apple, Amazon, and ESPN with a deal worth a reported $2 billion a year.

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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:

Analysis: for linear TV dramas and comedies, 40%-50% of the seven-day audience watches the show on the same day it airs, 20%-25% on DVR, and 30-40% on streaming — Analyzing available data and speaking with research and ad execs, THR attempts to pin down how much viewing happens on various platforms.

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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:

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Wall Street Journal:

Some telehealth companies are running social media ads promoting drugs for unapproved uses, showing benefits and paid testimonials but not risks or side effects — Some employees and patients say these marketing practices have contributed to the abuse of controlled substances

Discussion: Bloomberg and Insider

Daniel Quinaud / The Wrap:

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Eleanor Hawkins / Axios:

Media monitoring platform Memo's analysis of nearly 6,300 articles over the past six months: Meta has pivoted from dumping news on Friday evenings to burying it — In a 24/7 news cycle, the Friday evening news dump — a tactic historically embraced by strategic communicators in government …

Michael Savage / The Guardian:

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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:

A Delaware Supreme Court judge agrees to consolidate Dominion's defamation lawsuit against Fox News, so there won't be a second trial against parent company Fox — A Delaware Supreme Court judge has agreed to consolidate Dominion Voting Systems' defamation suit against Fox News …

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