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Sara Fischer / Axios:
CalMatters, a nonprofit focused on CA politics and policy, acquires tech news nonprofit The Markup; CalMatters has ~$12.5M in funding and The Markup has $5M — - CalMatters today employs 72 people and The Markup employs 28. … - CalMatters currently has around $12.5 in philanthropic funding …
Discussion:
@calmatters, @calmatters, CalMatters and @calmatters
Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Erica Heilman, host of “Rumble Strip”, an independent podcast she created in 2013 that chronicles how Vermont changed over the years — “I only make unimportant things now, but it's all the unimportant things that really make up our lives.”
Discussion:
@neel_dhan and @rumblestripvt
Jessica Testa / New York Times:
A look at Highsnobiety, a creative consultancy and clothing line, as well as magazine and website led by EIC Willa Bennett covering fashion and youth culture — Willa Bennett, the editor of Highsnobiety, at the Bowling Green subway station near its offices in New York.Lanna Apisukh for The New York Times
Daniel Tencer / Music Business Worldwide:
Short-form video app Triller is merging with Hong Kong financial services company AGBA; Triller shareholders will own 80% of the combined company valued at $4B — Financially troubled social media app and TikTok competitor Triller is merging with a Hong Kong financial services company …
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times and Billboard
Jonathan Barrett / The Guardian:
James Warburton, the CEO of Australia's Seven West Media since 2019, steps down; CFO Jeff Howard will take over as CEO starting on April 19 — Media executive's exit comes as broadcaster faces a number of controversies — Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
A Los Angeles ethics agency fines former CBS CEO Les Moonves $15K for misconduct in obtaining confidential police info about a sexual assault claim against him — Leslie Moonves, the former CEO of CBS, was fined $15,000 on Wednesday by the L.A. City Ethics Commission for obtaining secret information …
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Music rights investor Concord agrees to buy Hipgnosis Songs Fund in a deal valuing the song catalog company at ~$1.4B, capping a period of turmoil for Hipgnosis — - Concord's long term backer Apollo will provide financing — Hipgnosis struggled to recoup its investment on music rights
Discussion:
Reuters, The Wrap, Financial Times, Reuters, Variety, Billboard, Digital Music News, The Guardian and City A.M.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Twitch plans to roll out its TikTok-style discovery feed later in April, letting users scroll clips and livestreams, after testing the feature for a year — After nearly a year of testing, Twitch's new TikTok-style discovery feed will finally roll out to all users later this month.
Souhail Karam / Bloomberg:
A Tunisian court sentences prominent government critic and journalist Mohamed Boughalleb to six months in prison for defamation, renewing press freedom concerns — A Tunisian court jailed for defamation a reporter who's one of President Kais Saied's most prominent critics …
Discussion:
Committee to Protect … and Fox News
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An analysis of the gender pay gap in UK media: 76% of the biggest media organizations increased the proportion of women in their top pay tier from 2022 to 2023 — Average gender pay gap across major UK media organisations now stands at 11%. — Three-quarters of the UK's biggest media …
Discussion:
@pressgazette
The Economic Times:
VerSe Innovation, the parent of Indian news aggregator Dailyhunt, acquires New York-based digital magazine store Magzter in an undisclosed cash and stock deal — Homegrown digital newsstand Magzter, founded in 2011 and offering a cross-platform, self-service experience, has been acquired by Dailyhunt.
Discussion:
Financial Express, YourStory, Storyboard18, Moneycontrol and TechCrunch
Russell Brandom / Rest of World:
How Oscar winner RRR's success brought a wave of Telugu-language movies to Netflix's US catalog, about 50% of which is now made up of non-English content — Netflix's U.S. catalog has more content in Telugu than in German, Russian, or any dialect of Chinese.
Discussion:
@restofworld@restof.social
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Uri Berliner says he is resigning from NPR as he “cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm” NPR's problems — Uri Berliner, a National Public Radio senior editor who wrote a scathing online essay accusing the public radio network …
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Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
About 50 NPR staffers sign a letter to NPR leadership calling for a public rebuke of the “factual inaccuracies and elisions” in Uri Berliner's essay
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