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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
Court documents: in a deposition, Lachlan Murdoch said that Tucker Carlson's insinuation that immigrants make the US poorer and dirtier “is absolutely wrong” — Lachlan Murdoch, the CEO of Fox Corporation, sat for under oath questioning in the Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion …
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David Pierce / The Verge:
Spotify redesigns its app's core homescreen with album and playlist covers and a TikTok-like vertical scroll of playlists, video podcasts, and more — Spotify is redesigning the core homescreen of its app, trying to make it easier for users to find new stuff to listen to — and watch.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify revamps its podcaster tools to integrate podcast creation service Anchor, acquired in February 2019, and partners with Patreon for creator monetization — In addition to news related to its mobile app's revamp and the introduction of TikTok-style music and podcast discovery feeds …
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Rest of World Editor-in-Chief Anup Kaphle on his vision for the tech outlet, nonprofit benefits, sole benefactor Sophie Schmidt's involvement, and more — b — When it comes to technology coverage, many media outlets spend the bulk of their time paying attention to what happens …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS Sports plans to launch Golazo Network, a 24-hour free soccer streaming channel with analysis, highlights, broadcasts, and a morning program, on April 11 — With big U.S. media companies scrambling for soccer rights, Paramount Global wants to kick things up a notch.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Pew Charitable Trusts plans to provide a $3M grant and transfer its Stateline news service to the nonprofit States Newsroom, whose headcount will grow to ~180 — “State government is the level of government that impacts people's lives the most and is covered the least.”
Joel Simon / Columbia Journalism Review:
As hostile governments and others make work and life tough for reporters, new tactics linking press freedom and the public interest can help protect journalism — b — Carlos Dada can't go home to El Salvador. The editor of the groundbreaking digital website El Faro, which he co-founded in 1998 …
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Nieman Lab:
Interviews with 37 US-based reporters, editors, and others show that newsrooms' social media policies have hard-to-follow rules that raise their personal risk — Social media platforms present a conundrum for journalists. — On the one hand, journalists rely on social media for so many helpful aspects of their jobs.
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Rest of World:
A look at the growing social media dubbing industry, which is helping MrBeast and other YouTubers reach global audiences and monetize videos in many languages — MrBeast and PewDiePie are part of a booming business that localizes social media videos for fans around the world.
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Twitter lets the certificate for its Tor onion site expire, effectively killing off the privacy-preserving and speech-protecting service launched in March 2022 — Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.
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J.D. Capelouto / Semafor:
Senator Mitch McConnell says Fox News and Tucker Carlson depicting the January 6 attack on the US Capitol as a peaceful protest “was a mistake” — Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, said Tuesday that it was a mistake for Fox News' Tucker Carlson …
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
The Washington Post offers a subscription bundle with meditation app Headspace while expanding its wellness coverage to target readers beyond politics and news — The Washington Post began offering a subscription bundle this week with the meditation app Headspace.