7:25 AM ET, March 27, 2023
March 27, 2023
7:20 AM
William Turvill /
Press Gazette
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After a backlash, the UK's College of Policing withdraws proposals granting the police the option of not naming people charged with offences
6:10 AM
Lucas Shaw /
Bloomberg
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Demands from films' talent and marketing drive Apple and Amazon's embrace of theaters, where Apple plans to debut top movies at least a month ahead of Apple TV+
2:25 AM
Taylor Lorenz /
Washington Post
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Hollywood and music industry insiders, actors, and others say a TikTok ban could seriously hurt their businesses and are scrambling to create contingency plans
March 26, 2023
11:00 PM
The Texas Tribune
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Texas Observer, founded in 1954, is shutting down and will lay off its 17-person staff including 13 journalists; employees' last day is scheduled for March 31
10:10 PM
Samriddhi Sakunia /
Rest of World
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After India's legal orders this week, Twitter blocked the tweets of 122 users, including reporters and politicians, from Indian users; it used to push back more
11:35 AM
Alex Kingsbury /
New York Times
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Q&A with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on the US' classified material system, why there are so few whistleblowers, and nuclear and climate fears
3:35 AM
Todd Spangler /
Variety
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Filing: Vince McMahon reimburses the WWE ~$17.4M for the company's costs of investigating misconduct claims against him and agrees to pay related future costs
March 25, 2023
9:35 PM
Constant Méheut /
New York Times
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A profile of Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who was once a cog in Russia's propaganda machine but protested the war in Ukraine on live state-run TV
3:35 PM
CT Jones /
Rolling Stone
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A look at the impact on TV writers when streaming services cancel their shows and erase entire projects, some after filming was done, treated as tax write-offs
10:35 AM
Sarah Larson /
New Yorker
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A profile of Audie Cornish, the host of CNN podcast The Assignment, on her roots, her career as a journalist, NPR's culture, why she left the outlet, and more
2:15 AM
Brian Steinberg /
Variety
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Fox News fires Tucker Carlson producer Abby Grossberg after she alleged in court filings of being coerced into giving misleading testimony in the Dominion case
March 24, 2023
11:40 PM
Tony Paul /
The Detroit News
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Former Detroit News columnist Jerry Green, the only reporter to have covered each of the first 56 Super Bowls, from 1967 to 2022, died on March 23 at age 94
7:20 PM
Gary Price /
LJ Infodocket
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A US federal judge rules in favor of four publishers in their copyright infringement case against the Internet Archive and its Controlled Digital Lending system
5:55 PM
Jaimie Ding /
Los Angeles Times
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The California Journalism Preservation Act, a state bill unveiled this week, would force Google and Meta to pay a “journalism usage fee” to fund newsroom jobs
3:40 PM
Nilay Patel /
The Verge
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Q&A with NYT CEO Meredith Kopit Levien on the site as a destination, Google as the last great text distributor, software investment, shifting strategy, and more
3:10 PM
Howard Cohen /
Miami Herald
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Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is retiring, describing the change as “stepping down” after 18 years
1:45 PM
Jameel Jaffer /
New York Times
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A TikTok ban would have to satisfy the most stringent form of First Amendment review as the ban would operate as a prior restraint on speech of would-be users
1:10 PM
Martin Baron /
Washington Post
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Objectivity is a journalistic principle and is neither a false balance, a false equivalence, both-sidesism, nor neutrality, but a call for open-minded reporting
11:30 AM
Law & Crime
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Law&Crime plans to expand its YouTube presence through acquisitions and partnerships with other true crime channels, after having acquired The Disturbing Truth
9:20 AM
Alexandra Bruell /
Wall Street Journal
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Axios HQ, the software business spun off from Axios in 2022, raised a $20M Series A at a nearly $100M valuation to build communication tools with OpenAI's help
7:10 AM
New York Times
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The ALA says 2022 saw 1,269 attempts to ban books and other resources in libraries and schools, the most since the group began tracking censorship 20 years ago
March 23, 2023
7:14 PM
Todd Spangler /
Variety
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Twitter plans to wind down its legacy verified program, first introduced in June 2009, and remove legacy verified checkmarks starting on April 1, 2023
7:00 PM
Sky News
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The BBC shelves its next Top Gear season after presenter Andrew Flintoff was injured in a December 2022 crash at the show's test track
5:55 PM
Erin Doherty /
Axios
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As lawmakers ripped TikTok CEO Shou Chew on March 23, the app's creators mocked the congressional hearing and defended the platform under the tag #tiktokhearing
4:55 PM
David Robb /
Deadline
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WGA East members at Hearst Magazines offices in Alabama, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania held a half-day March 23 walkout and rally for a fair contract
4:50 PM
NPR
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NPR stops producing the Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot, Rough Translation, and Everyone & Their Mom podcasts, and cuts 10% of staff to close a $30M+ budget gap
3:40 PM
Mark Jacob /
Nieman Lab
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Journalism schools aren't interested in banning Fox News, despite the Dominion case appearing to reveal that the network committed a breach of journalism ethics
1:55 PM
Nathan Grayson /
Washington Post
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Current and former Twitch staff describe how the service lost its way: out-of-touch leaders, losing big creators, cost cutting, many irrelevant ads, and more
1:25 PM
Michael E. Kanell /
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution EIC Kevin Riley is retiring, to be succeeded by Leroy Chapman Jr., the first Black editor-in-chief in the outlet's 155-year history
12:05 PM
Brian Steinberg /
Variety
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CNN plans to launch The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, a 60 Minutes-style show, on April 16 at 8pm, as part of its plans for Sunday night premium programming
10:25 AM
Adi Robertson /
The Verge
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The FTC proposes banning difficult-to-cancel subscriptions via “click to cancel” rules requiring companies to make ending a subscription as simple as signing up
8:40 AM
Bloomberg
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Sources: Apple plans to spend $1B per year to produce movies for release in thousands of theaters, a big increase from years past, seeking to grow TV+ awareness
8:10 AM
Katie Robertson /
New York Times
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Fox lawyers argue the company shouldn't be found liable in the Dominion case as the Murdochs and other executives were not directly involved in Fox News content
7:40 AM
Naman Ramachandran /
Variety
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Ofcom lays out rules for the BBC's new operating license, which requires adherence to 70+ quotas and comprehensively regulates its online services, from April 1
6:42 AM
Giles Turner /
Bloomberg
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Sources: Apple considers bidding for the streaming rights to a range of English soccer games, including to show Premier League games in the UK, following Amazon
4:45 AM
Laura Hazard Owen /
Nieman Lab
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Q&A with Center for Cooperative Media Research Director Sarah Stonbely residents' top needs from local news outlets, especially calendars of municipal meetings
March 22, 2023
10:05 PM
Cory Doctorow /
Pluralistic
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Cory Doctorow plans to sell a third audiobook via Kickstarter after refusing to consent to Amazon's DRM for Audible, which gets 90%+ of genre audiobook sales
5:25 PM
Sara Fischer /
Axios
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MoffettNathanson predicts less spending on streaming TV shows and movies in 2023, especially by Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global, and NBCUniversal
4:00 PM
Celeste Katz Marston /
Nieman Reports
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A look at the exiled journalists and outlets from South Sudan, Eritrea, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Mexico, Belarus, and Russia covering their countries
3:20 PM
Luke Plunkett /
Kotaku
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Ubisoft unveils Ghostwriter, an internal AI tool saving its scriptwriters time by creating first drafts and more realistic non-player character interactions
2:35 PM
William Turvill /
Press Gazette
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UK publishers criticize a College of Policing's guideline change giving police across England and Wales the option not to name suspects charged with offenses
1:30 PM
Wall Street Journal
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Sources: at News Media Alliance meetings in recent weeks, publishing executives discussed their content being used to train AI and how they might be compensated
12:30 PM
Sarah Spicer /
Committee to Protect Journalists
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News reports and journalists say at least 28 members of the press were obstructed, harassed, or attacked covering Nigerian elections on March 18 and March 19
11:55 AM
Charlotte Tobitt /
Press Gazette
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Reach offers staff earning £60K or less a 4% raise; a source says Reach will employ ~1,200 journalists, down from 2,862 in 2022, after the planned redundancies
11:25 AM
Chris Stokel-Walker /
BuzzFeed News
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Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins says Midjourney banned him after he made images of a Donald Trump arrest; the company banned the word “arrested” in its tool
10:50 AM
Sahil Patel /
The Information
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Sources: Meta rehires veteran manager Nick Grudin, who left to join NFT startup Dapper Labs in August 2022, to oversee media company and creator relationships
10:35 AM
Max Tani /
@maxwelltani
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JAF Communications acquires DC-based Grid and plans to integrate the news site into The Messenger before launching the digital news media company in May 2023
10:30 AM
Chris Welch /
The Verge
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Amazon introduces new Fire TVs and the cheaper TV lineup 2-Series, and says 200M+ Fire TV devices have been sold
10:16 AM
Meg James /
Los Angeles Times
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Newsmax and DirecTV announce an agreement to restore the conservative network to satellite TV, U-verse, and DirecTV Stream this week; terms were not disclosed
9:25 AM
Ashley Carman /
Bloomberg
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Memo: Spotify has spent less than 10% of its $100M Creator Equity Fund, announced in February 2022 to promote diversity in music after the Joe Rogan controversy
8:55 AM
Dan Kennedy /
Media Nation
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The Boston Globe ends its two-year partnership with The Emancipator, leaving Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research to publish the digital outlet
8:15 AM
Elizabeth Dilts Marshall /
Billboard
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Tencent Music reports 2022 revenue down 9.3% YoY to ~$4.11B, despite music subscriptions revenue up 18.6% YoY to ~$1.26B; Q4 revenue fell 2.4% YoY to ~$1.08B
7:40 AM
Andrew Marchand /
New York Post
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Source: ESPN fired EVP Rob King after harassment accusations; King tweeted that he “decided the time is right for me to leave the company” after nearly 20 years
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