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Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Pop-Up Magazine shuts down after hosting live storytelling shows since its 2009 launch, citing the pandemic and economic downturn and affecting 18+ employees — The live events publisher explored a sale or investment prior to closing — The live performance publisher Pop-Up Magazine …
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Vince McMahon plans to return to WWE to pursue a sale of the business, after retiring as CEO and chairman in July 2022 amid sexual misconduct claims against him — Vince McMahon, the majority owner and former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., WWE 2.26%increase …
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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
Twitter verified a Washington Post columnist's fake US Senator Ed Markey account, after Elon Musk said “all verified accounts will be manually authenticated” — Elon Musk said Twitter would begin authenticating users who pay $8 for Blue. Our tech columnist was still able to get a checkmark for an impostor Sen. Ed Markey.
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Camila DeChalus / Washington Post:
The US House allowed C-SPAN to let cameras roam the chamber until a speaker is elected, showing loud booing, animated conversations, sleeping kids, and more — Loud booing. Animated conversations in the aisles of the House chamber. Sleeping children. Lawmakers scrolling on their phones.
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Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
Roku let Burrow, a channel dedicated to QAnon conspiracy theories, launch despite seemingly violating its content rules; Burrow got 300K+ installs in 20 days — Roku may be making money on the channel via ads, despite its rules against such content — Streaming platform Roku has allowed …
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Universal Music Group sues Triller, alleging the short-form video app has not paid its invoices for the past nine months, violating their licensing agreement — Universal Music Group sued Triller on Thursday, alleging that the video-sharing app has failed to make payments for the last nine months …
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Erin Woo / The Information:
Source: Twitter laid off ~40 ad optimization data scientists and engineers, as the company targets areas that leadership considers to be failing or unimportant — Twitter laid off about 40 data scientists and engineers working on advertising late Wednesday night in what amounted to at least …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook dropped plans to heavily demote content on politics and sensitive topics, after views for “high quality news publishers” fell, and more — Hitting mute button on political content recommendations brought unintended consequences
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
The New York Times has yet to hire a media columnist, a year after Ben Smith left; sources: the NYT has talked to Sarah Ellison, Brian Stelter, and Dylan Byers — One of the highest perches in the industry has been vacant for a year, leaving journalists inside and outside the paper puzzled about management's lack of urgency.
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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
iSpot.tv: in 2022, US TV ad impressions fell 3.5% YoY to 8T and TV ad spend grew 6.1% YoY to $45.36B; CBS had the greatest share of TV ad impressions at 14.55% — Total TV advertising impressions in 2022 from linear, streaming and local programming were down 3.5% versus the year before to 8.0 trillion, according to iSpot.tv.
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Dave Biscobing / ABC15:
After The Wall Street Journal asked for a review, Phoenix police investigate an officer handcuffing and detaining WSJ reporter Dion Rabouin in November 2022 — PHOENIX — The Wall Street Journal is demanding the Phoenix Police Department conduct an internal review and take action …
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Ronan Shields / Digiday:
The Trade Desk announces Galileo, a demand-side platform based on its Unified ID 2.0 tool, and says that more than 50 North American media owners are using UID2 — CES is a gadgetry showcase but adland's digerati has also decamped to Las Vegas this week where The Trade Desk will trumpet its …
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