YouTube blocks Trump from posting, Apple makes good on $100M racial equity and social justice promises, and Glassdoor’s ‘Best Places to Work’
Also: CNN to end its Airport Network, Yelp to display COVID-19 feedback, Chipotle aims to hire 15,000 employees, and more.
Hello, communicators:
On March 31, CNN is ending its Airport Network, a customized news service for nearly 60 airports in the United States. The network has operated for 30 years. In a memo, Jeff Zucker, CNN’s president, pointed to decreased travel during COVID-19 as well as shifting news consumption behaviors.
“The steep decline in airport traffic because of COVID-19, coupled with all the new ways that people are consuming content on their personal devices, has lessened the need” for the network, Zucker wrote.
… “I am sure most of us have a story to tell about which airport we were at when we first learned of a major news event,” Zucker wrote. “Be proud that we had a hand in sharing some incredible stories with many millions of people over the past three decades.”
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The social media platform announced that “in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence,” it removed President Donald Trump’s latest video and suspended the channel’s ability to post additional content for at least a week. YouTube also said it’s disabling comments on Trump’s channel “indefinitely”:
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