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Another legacy hit: Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been stripped of the Emmy Award he received last year for his popular daily briefings on the coronavirus.
“This is a real estate deal, not a newspaper deal.”—Tampa Bay Times chairman and CEO Paul Tash, on the sale of its shuttered St. Petersburg printing plant for $21 million to (the real estate arm of) Alden Global Capital hedge fund.
The Washington Post reports on a study that showed that misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news.
For the third consecutive time, the Associated Press has named a female executiveeditor, Julie Pace. For the record, the 175-year-old news organization provides roughly 730,000 articles, 70,000 videos and 1 million photos to more than 15,000 subscribers.
It’s not a word that turns up very often, but “shambolic” shows up in a lot of copy describing the mismanaged American withdrawal from the Afghanistan quagmire.