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The firing of LA Times publisher Austin Beutner revealed tensions with Tribune CEO Jack Griffin and financial stress for the news organization — Firing at Los Angeles Times Focuses Discontent — LOS ANGELES — In January, Jack Griffin, the chief executive of Tribune Publishing Company …
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Tribune Publishing lowers guidance for 2015 earnings, citing Southern California results, days after it fired LA Times publisher — Tribune Publishing Lowers Guidance — Company cites results in Southern California — Tribune Publishing Co. lowered its 2015 guidance, mainly due to results in Southern California.
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Los Angeles Times, Business Wire and Chicago Tribune


Sidewire launches on iOS, offers curated political news and analysis from 100+ journalists, analysts, campaign managers, politicians to help cut through noise — Sidewire Is Your Hotline To Political Insight — Aiming to help people cut through all of the political noise, Sidewire …
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The Washington Post's new website uses a print-inspired hierarchy to capture story importance — The Washington Post's new website: print-inspired hierarchy — Without a doubt, perhaps one of the most appealing features of a printed newspaper page is how it can show hierarchy for the content it displays.

University of Toronto program trains professionals to be journalists covering their areas of expertise — Pitching coach: A program at the University of Toronto wants to turn subject experts into freelancers — “Atul Gawande is a model of a guy who is active in his field …


Inside Paris' Maison des Journalistes, a refuge where threatened journalists can stay and get aid for up to eight months — Inside the world's only sanctuary for exiled journalists — PARIS, FRANCE—"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."


With sale of Cablevision to Altice, cable TV pioneers in the Dolan family shift focus to assets spun out earlier: Madison Square Garden and AMC — Dolans Cash Out of Cablevision — With sale of their company to Altice, family's focus to shift to MSG, AMC
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Vietnamese blogger and dissident Ta Phong Tan released from prison after three years, arrives in US — Vietnamese political prisoner arrives in U.S. after release — Political dissident Ta Phong Tan entered the lobby of Los Angeles International Airport around 9:40 p.m. Saturday to about 25 cheering supporters.
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New America Media and Reuters


How Broadly, The Skimm, and Refinery29 are mixing feminism with news and politics — Fashion, politics, and feminism: The women's magazines for a new generation — “Women working at Douglas Aircraft” by Alfred T. Palmer (United States Library of Congress)


50 year old Tiger Beat plans to reboot with digital in mind but will keep the print magazine as the central focus — Tiger Beat Turns 50, But Teen Idols Stay The Same Age … Mark Patricof doesn't seem like the sort of guy who'd have a magazine with the face of Justin Bieber framed …


How trust in Spain's media system is being slowly restored by a small group of media upstarts — The Spanish Media Are the Worst in Europe. These Upstarts Are Trying to Change That. — A broad range of leftist media projects committed to democracy and transparency have flourished in recent years.


Gannett to launch storytelling events in nine cities following success in its Arizona program — Gannett takes the idea behind Arizona Storytellers Project nationwide … Next week at the Online News Association's annual conference, a group of journalists from nine Gannett newspapers …