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  Ken Yeung

  

  3 days ago

  Reuters U.S. journalists strike for first time in decades

  Axios - Sara Fischer

  Reuters on Wednesday alerted customers that its U.S. journalists planned to go on strike in response to ongoing contract negotiations between …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  5 days ago

  Profits Slump at CNN as Ratings Plummet

  The New York Times - Benjamin Mullin

  One of the first moves the newly formed Warner Bros. Discovery made when it took over CNN was shutting down CNN+, the nascent streaming service that was touted as the network’s bridge to the future. The next month, when Chris Licht took over as CNN’s chairman, he told employees in his first town …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  Jul 30

  Voices Investigation: Journalism's top awards lack diverse judges - Voices Los Angeles 2022

  aajavoices.org - Brammhi Balarajan, Yiwen Lu, Bahar Ostadan, Omar Rashad and Samson Zhang

  Canedy was the first woman and person of color to hold the administrator job in the Pulitzer board’s history. “On the one hand, that’s progress. On …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  How local journalists proved a 10-year-old’s abortion wasn’t a hoax

  The Washington Post - By Elahe Izadi

  It felt like half the country doubted the case existed. The Indianapolis Star had published a story July 1 about a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio who was forced to travel to Indiana for an abortion because of new restrictions in her home state. An indignant President Biden cited the story a week …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  Scoop: Meta officially cuts funding for U.S. news publishers

  Axios - Sara Fischer

  Meta on Tuesday began telling its news partners in the U.S. that the company no longer plans to pay publishers for their content to run on Facebook's …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  Vox Media cuts staff, slows down hiring as recession fears grow

  CNBC - Alex Sherman

  Just a month ago, media executives expressed optimism that their companies were well positioned for an economic slowdown. Vox Media may have injected …