Buzzfeed going public
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Buzzfeed announced that it is going public in a deal with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), which will give company an implied valuation of USD 1.5 billion, the company
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Nonprofit journalism grew in 2020
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Nonprofit journalism grew in 2020, and individual donors played an increasingly large part in this boom, the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) says in its annual report. In 2020, the
Hongkong Pro-democracy Apple Daily closing operations
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Pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily in Hongkong has announced it is closing operation making June 24 the last day of publication. The decision came after staffers have been detained and company´s
Reuters Institute’s annual News Report: need for more diverse newsrooms
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Young people – especially young women – think media represent them less fairly. This also goes for political partisans and – at least in the US – people from minority
Streaming wars: Spielberg finally seduced by Netflix and Europe ‘brexiting’ film industry
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Netflix announced that they finally managed to add Steven Spielberg in their portfolio, via his Amblin Partners production company, for several years and multiple movies per year. Spielberg has been
European court rules in favour of YouTube in copyright cases
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The European Court of Justice has ruled in favour of YouTube in two cases concerning copyright infringement. The cases are of importance as many discussions focus on what responsibility the
Google search flirting with individual journalists
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Google is trying out a new feature intended to showcase more of the content from individual journalists. Google is attributing this new feature to their ambition to fight misinformation and
Hongkong publisher Jimmy Lai gets press freedom award
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The imprisoned founder of Hongkong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and Next Digital media company, Jimmy Lai, will be awarded the Committee to Protect Journalist´s 2021 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award.
Will chatrooms still be popular after the pandemic?
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Clubhouse launching of chatrooms with just unrecorded conversation became a success. Now, approximately one year later, almost all the big players on social media have introduced what more or less
Provocative author and journalist Janet Malcolm is dead
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“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible”. The quote is a