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6:55 PM ET, April 14, 2023

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Publishers Weekly:
Scholastic apologizes for asking a children's book author to cut language in an author's note about ongoing racism after saying the note might lessen readership  —  Concerns about censorship at Scholastic's Rising Voices Library, a diversity-focused provider of educational materials …
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:
Parlement Technologies sells Parler to digital media company Starboard, which plans to temporarily shut down the right-wing social network ahead of a relaunch  —  Social network popular with conservatives will be sold for an undisclosed amount and overhauled for a relaunch
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Instagram updates Reels with a section for trending audio and hashtags, expands gifts to more countries, enhances its editing tools, adds new metrics, and more  —  As governments around the world express growing concerns about TikTok, its rival Instagram Reels is getting a series of new updates aimed at creators.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A study of 33 UK media companies: the average median gender pay gap fell from 15.7% in 2017 to 12.1% in 2022 and the average mean gap fell from 17.7% to 13.7%  —  There are more men than women in the top-paid quartile at 91% of major UK media companies.  —  Men were paid more on average …
Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:
Noonoo TV, a South Korean movie and TV show piracy platform, shuts down, blaming high bandwidth charges and “pressure”, likely from a new anti-piracy coalition  —  One month ago, South Korean movie and TV show piracy platform Noonoo TV was riding the crest of a wave along with tens of millions of dedicated fans.
Nicholas Quah / Vulture:
A look at the Economist's aloof and listenable podcasts, which averaged ~25M downloads in March 2023 and have ~5M listeners, as the content gets more ambitious  —  It's hard to argue that there's much fresh energy among news podcasts of late.  The genre's modern generation largely came …
 
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Freya Drohan / Daily Front Row:
Dotdash Meredith names Sally Holmes editor-in-chief and general manager of InStyle, effective May 1; Holmes has been Marie Claire's editor-in-chief since 2020
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify plans to shut down Heardle on May 5, after acquiring the Wordle-inspired music guessing game in July 2022, to focus on other music discovery objectives
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Screen Australia study: of 361 TV drama programs, 26% had entirely Anglo-Celtic main casts; First Nations main characters rose from 4.8% to 7.2% in five years
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Brian Stelter / Vanity Fair:
Examining the key “reckless disregard” question in the Dominion-Fox trial, set to start next week; a source says Fox pursued settlement talks multiple times
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
The New York Times, Politico, and seven other outlets sue for copies of the January 6 Capitol riot surveillance videos that Kevin McCarthy gave to Fox News
Discussion: Washington Post