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The Washington Post, the USA Today network, and others drop the Dilbert comic strip after its creator Scott Adams went on a racist rant on his YouTube show — Newspapers across the United States have pulled Scott Adams's long-running “Dilbert” comic strip after the cartoonist called Black Americans a …
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Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer:
Sources: Dish Network has been hit by a cyberattack “by an outside bad actor” and the company is working with an external vendor to resolve the issue — American TV giant and satellite broadcast provider, Dish Network has mysteriously gone offline with its websites and apps ceasing to function over the past 24 hours.
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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
A major outage has taken down Dish Network's websites, apps, and customer support systems; sources say remote employees can't connect to their VPNs and work — Since Thursday morning, Dish Network has been experiencing a major outage that's taken down the company's main websites, apps …
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Anumita Kaur / Washington Post:
WaPo, CNN, Politico, ABC, Axios, Gannett, and others demand the release of January 6 footage that the House speaker provided exclusively to Tucker Carlson — Scores of news organizations — including The Washington Post — on Friday demanded congressional leaders release a trove …
John Ourand / Sports Business Journal:
Sources: WBD seeks to shed regional sports networks, telling teams they need to take rights back from AT&T SportsNet by March 31 or channels face bankruptcy — Warner Bros. Discovery has told teams that it plans to exit the regional sports network business entirely within the next several weeks.
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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:
Source: TikTok's test in Australia limiting how much licensed music some users' can access is to study what is trending, how users access its service, and more — The short-form video app known for breaking viral hits is using music in a different way Down Under. — What's TikTok without music?
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Clare Malone / New Yorker:
A profile of Media Matters for America researcher Kat Abughazaleh, who is building a TikTok following by needling Tucker Carlson and other Fox News hosts — According to Kat Abughazaleh, a researcher at Media Matters for America, “You don't know Fox News until you are watching it for a job.”
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Marina Chentsova / International Journalists' Network:
A year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, some Ukrainian journalists detail how the war has impacted their lives and work — A year has passed since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. All-out fighting has continued over the past year, resulting in massive loss …
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A profile of Camille Padilla Dalmau, who co-founded 9 Millones, a publishing and crowdfunding platform for journalists investigating untold Puerto Rico stories — When Camille Padilla Dalmau decided to study journalism in the United States, it was with the intention of later returning home to Puerto Rico.
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Derek Willis / ProPublica:
Politwoops, a ProPublica project that tracked and archived politicians' deleted tweets since 2012, is shutting down as the required Twitter tools no longer work — Whether officials were deleting an embarrassing post or just correcting a typo, Politwoops tracked them all.
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Memo: Vice Media Group CEO Nancy Dubuc says she is leaving the company after five years; sources say she was at the end of her contract and decided to move on — EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Dubuc is leaving Vice Media Group where she was CEO for the past five years. She just announced her decision …
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Sahil Patel / The Information:
Source: Apple hired TV and digital video advertising executive Lauren Fry to build a video ad business for Apple TV+, which doesn't have an ad-supported tier — Apple has hired Lauren Fry, a TV and digital video advertising executive, to help build a video advertising business …
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