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6:35 PM ET, April 21, 2023

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Jahnavi Nidumolu / Reuters:
Twitter drops the “Government-funded” and “state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media outlets and journalists, including NPR, BBC, CBC, RT, and Xinhua  —  Twitter dropped the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels, which implies government involvement …
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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Twitter emails advertisers to say they must now have “a verified checkmark or subscribe to either Twitter Blue or Verified Organizations” to keep running ads  —  As Twitter's legacy blue check mark system finally comes to an end, the social network's new paid-for verification system …
Dara Kerr / NPR:
Sources: Twitter removed its “visibility filtering rules”, or “shadow bans”, for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government accounts and state-affiliated media  —  Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier …
Hillary Frey / Slate:
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti innovated and kept BuzzFeed News going longer than others would have, only for Facebook's pivot away from news to kill his creation  —  I heard about BuzzFeed News shutting down right before it hit Twitter.  Word travels fast among industry old-timers like myself, and we try to keep each other in the loop.
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
BuzzFeed News' legacy has two components: brilliant stories and alumni plus digital media's tragic mismanagement of unrealistic, impossible exponential growth
Ben Smith / Semafor:
The end of BuzzFeed News signals a vast shift in digital media: the old way of thinking about news as text distributed primarily on social media has passed
Alastair Reid / @ajreid:
[Thread] At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, journalists debate the shifting value of social networks, especially Twitter and Facebook  —  Outrageous setting for this powerhouse panel here at #ijf23 with @CharlieBeckett @emilybell @mathewi and @mitrakalita. What now for journalism as the platforms move on? https://twitter.com/...
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Reuters Institute:
Highlights from talks at International Journalism Festival 2023 in Perugia, Italy, about reporting in exile, investigative journalism, generative AI, and more  —  Here are a few highlights from the festival on topics such as press freedom, investigative journalism, climate coverage and AI
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
A look at sports media rights money with cable TV's rise and fall, and why leagues and franchises worry they won't replicate the reach and revenue of peak cable  —  Television has changed the course of sports as long as it has existed, in ways both sweeping and specific.
Hsiuwen Liu / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists in Hong Kong, many who once worked at outlets that have since closed, like Apple Daily, continue to produce media independently despite China's laws  —  Hong Kong Court News, an online outlet that debuted at the start of the year, operates out of a rented coworking space in Wong Chuk Hang …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Hasbro is in talks with Entertainment One founder Darren Throop, who is backed by private equity firm CVC, to sell him back most of EOne's assets  —  Hasbro Inc. is in talks with Entertainment One founder Darren Throop to sell most of the film and TV studio's assets back to him, according to people familiar with the matter.
Todd Shields / Bloomberg Law:
A US appeals court declines to force the FCC to speed up its decision to approve or deny Standard General's proposed $5.4B acquisition of TV broadcaster Tegna  —  Share To:  —  A court declined to speed regulatory consideration of Standard General LP's proposed purchase of TV broadcaster Tegna Inc. …
 
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After YouTube pulls Heart On My Sleeve due to a UMG copyright notice, a look at the legal dilemma for Google, which claims scraping data to train AI is fair use
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Music livestreaming service Mandolin shuts down, after launching in June 2020, raising a $5M seed in October 2020, and raising a $12M Series A in June 2021
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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will be dropped in the shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
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A deep look at the changes at The Buffalo News: print and design outsourcing, staff furloughs, insurance snafus, fewer reporters, and higher-paid Lee executives
 

 
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Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance:
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% YoY to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Cybersecurity startup Wiz acquires Dazz, a specialist in security remediation and risk management; sources say the cash-and-stock deal is valued at $450M

 
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