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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Gawker.com announces it will shut down next week, after nearly 14 years of operation — After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week. The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media's six other websites …
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Fate of Gawker.com Remains Unclear After Univision Acquisition of Gawker Media — Following a day-long auction against the online publisher Ziff Davis, the media conglomerate Univision is buying Gawker Media's assets—including Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, and Lifehacker—for $135 million.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Univision wants Gawker Media's blogs to shore up its reach to a younger digital audience ahead of a potential IPO — Univision is the biggest Hispanic media company in the U.S. Why in the world does it want Gawker Media, the aggressively impudent digital publisher that sold itself in a bankruptcy auction?
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
The New York Times closes down its NYT Now app, no longer available for download starting the week of August 29 — In early 2014, The New York Times introduced an app called NYT Now that would provide a curated list of stories — for a lower price than a full digital subscription …
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The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump's presidential campaign has produced a civil war in conservative media, which will lead to a post-election reckoning — “There are elements of the entertainment wing of the Republican Party that need to be dealt with.” — During the 1990s, no one had a run quite like The American Spectator.
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Trump campaign insider Jason Miller says “media bias” email blasts to the press makes journalists think twice, and Roger Stone says media criticism earns votes — The Trump campaign's email blast war against what it considers biased reporting is about to resume, according to its commander …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Trump's partnership with Steve Bannon highlights the blurred lines between journalism and media activism
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New York Times:
Trump hires Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen Bannon to lead campaign in shakeup
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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Ex-Breitbart Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro says Steve Bannon led the site to openly embrace white supremacists, may work with Trump on a new media outlet
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Charlotte England / The Independent:
Egypt's state broadcaster ERTU suspends eight of its female hosts, ordering them to lose weight, sparking outrage among women's rights groups — Egypt's state broadcaster has suspended eight female television presenters because it says they are overweight.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Gannett sweetens bid for Tronc, which had rejected prior bid of $15 per share and is expected to respond by the end of the week — The new overture comes after Tronc rejected a prior bid of $15 a share — Gannett Co. has privately sweetened its bid for Tronc Inc. …
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Twitter says it has suspended 235K accounts since February for promoting terrorism, bringing total to 360K since mid-2015 — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter suspended 235,000 accounts that promoted terrorism over the last six months, as part of a continuing effort to keep people from using …
Susannah Nesmith / Columbia Journalism Review:
A second Gatehouse Media newspaper in Florida, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, takes steps to unionize with the NewsGuild as buyouts loom — Newsroom employees at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune took steps to unionize Wednesday, just days after journalists at a sister publication, the Lakeland Ledger …
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Vicky Ward / Esquire:
Esquire reporter Vicky Ward reveals that Jared Kushner, owner of The New York Observer, asked that she pursue a retaliatory hit piece on developer Richard Mack — His father-in-law's bid for the White House is in shambles. Is he the man to fix it? — In the spring of 2011 …
New York Times:
Fairfax Media's Sydney Morning Herald and The Age may stop printing on weekdays, as newspaper readership falls about 50% since 2011 in Australia — They pushed for women to get the vote in Australia's national elections. They brought down a central bank board member. And they helped convict a state official.
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Financial Times:
Daily Telegraph owners rebuffed two potential buyers: consortium led by Richard Addis and, source says, London Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev — The owners of the Daily Telegraph, Sir David and Frederick Barclay, have rebuffed two expressions of interest from potential buyers …
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