Journalist Bill Spindle left Semaphore because he didn't want Chevron ads in his climate newsletter. A spokesperson for the company said there are rotating sponsors and that it adheres to robust ad acceptability guidelines. This feels like a very old school journalistic approach to content being influenced by kind of the drift toward advertorial, towards sponsored content says CNN's John Sutter.

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