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Hadas Gold / Politico:
21st Century Fox launching ‘internal review’ at Fox News following Gretchen Carlson lawsuit — Fox News has launched an internal review of the behavior of CEO Roger Ailes and “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy, after one of Fox News Channel's top anchors filed a lawsuit against Ailes …
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Jared Kushner / The New York Observer:
Jared Kushner defends father-in-law Donald Trump, saying the worst he could be criticized for was carelessness in retweeting imagery interpreted as offensive — My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite. — It's that simple, really. Donald Trump is not anti-Semitic and he's not a racist.
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Twitter tests sports coverage starting with Wimbledon stream featuring video and scrollable tweets on dedicated Live page — Twitter is streaming Wimbledon, our first glimpse at live sports on Twitter. — Twitter wants to get into the business of streaming live sports …
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Amy Mitchell / Pew Research Center:
Study: 81% of US adults get news online, up from 12% 20 years ago; 72% get news on mobile devices; 36% of online news comes via orgs, 15% from friends, family — Twenty years ago, only 12% of U.S. adults got news online. Today, that number stands at 81%.
Ellen Gamerman / Wall Street Journal:
Audible launches on-demand audio service Channels with six original-content shows, free with $15 per month Audible membership or $5 per month standalone service — The audio retailer unveiled six new original-content shows on Thursday — Audible just used an age-old tactic to get attention: It flashed its breasts.
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Guardian Editor-in-Chief Katharine Viner gives bleak prognosis for journalism as social media dominates, tells marketers they're financing fake news sites — Guardian News and Media's editor-in-chief Katharine Viner's prognosis of news publishing in an algorithm- and platform-dominated world is bleak.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
How the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism is using Medium's subscription tools for more revenue, picking up 23 subscribers in first two weeks — Most of the publishers using Medium would describe themselves as small, or small-ish. But sites like The Ringer and The Awl are huge compared …
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@fara1 and @steve_katz
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Economist profits up to £61m as paid subscriptions offset 18% print ad fall — Strategy of pushing readers to premium packages of print and digital content pays off for magazine, which this year severed links with Pearson — The Economist grew profits to more than £60m …
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Gannett buys North Jersey Media Group papers — Gannett, the Virginia-based newspaper company that owns USA Today and dozens of local newspapers around the country, has reached an agreement to buy various assets of North Jersey Media Group, whose portfolio includes a prominent Garden State daily, The Record of Bergen County.
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Q&A with Fusion shark correspondent Madison Stewart about Project Earth, a multi-platform story devoted to oceans, climate change, and more — Fusion announced a new beat last week through an internal memo to its staff: sharks. Filmmaker and activist Madison Stewart will add her work to Fusion's …
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Rhonda Cook / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Lawyer for Georgia newspaper publisher says felony charges stemming from records request dropped — Appalachian Judicial Circuit District Attorney Alison Sosebee dropped today the three felony charges brought against the publisher of a local weekly newspaper and his attorney that were brought based …
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Patrick Dolan acquires 75% of Newsday Media from Altice and becomes company president — Son of Cablevision founder Charles Dolan also becomes president of Newsday — Patrick Dolan, the son of Cablevision founder Charles Dolan, has bought a majority ownership stake in Newsday Media Group …
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