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Andrew Ross Sorkin / CNBC:
NBCUniversal invested $500M in Snap IPO as part of a strategic investment and partnership, making it the only US media company with a stake — NBCUniversal, a unit of Comcast and parent of CNBC, invested $500 million in Snap during its IPO as part of a strategic investment and partnership, according to sources.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke's note to employees: Snap investment “builds on our strategy to drive digital growth for our business” — Here's a note from CEO Steve Burke. — Comcast's NBCUniversal invested $500 million in Snap when it went public this week.
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Study of 1.25M stories from April 2015 until the US election shows that a right-wing media network, anchored around Breitbart, altered the broader media agenda — The 2016 Presidential election shook the foundations of American politics. Media reports immediately looked for external disruption …
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@ethanz, @sheilacoronel and @vishne0
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Juan Thompson, who was fired from The Intercept for fabricating quotes, is arrested on suspicion of making bomb threats against eight Jewish community centers — Juan Thompson, who was fired from The Intercept last year for fabricating quotes, has been arrested on suspicion of making bomb threats against Jewish community centers.
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Automattic, the company behind WordPress, launches new importing tool that makes it easier to copy Medium content to a WordPress site — Publishing platform Medium recently laid off dozens of people. So if you don't want to hand away your precious writing to a startup that is still looking …
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@triketora, @wordpressdotcom, @techcrunch, The WordPress.com Blog and VentureBeat
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with New York Times editor Jake Silverstein, on the paper's recent front-of-book redesign and how the Times sees print and digital working together — “One thing that's cool on this project is seeing how print and digital can be friends.” — New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman's tweetstorm …
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Reuters:
Sources: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin used his first senior staff meeting last month to tell his new aides he would not tolerate leaks to the news media — President Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin used his first senior staff meeting last month to tell his new aides …
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Michael Canyon Meyer / Columbia Journalism Review:
This Land Press, a Tulsa-based startup founded in 2010 to bring literary journalism to the heartland, will suspend publication of its magazine this spring — This Land Press, the Tulsa-based startup founded in 2010 to bring literary journalism to Middle America, will suspend publication of its celebrated magazine this spring.
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@usprojectcjr, @k8tmac, @nbj914 and @mcm_nm
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Vox Media names Elena Bergeron as SB Nation's first editor in chief, says it will add employees “in the double digits” to expand sports site's newsroom — One of these sites is not like the other: ESPN.com, CBSSports.com, FoxSports.com, SBNation.com.
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Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch:
News curation app Discors adds NYT and FT to its $4.99/month subscription model, which already includes The Economist, WaPo, and other publications — News outlets are having the time of their lives as people are flocking in to subscribe, but what if you want to read more than one news outlet?
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@techcrunch, @mattervc and @ahayesroth
Andrew R. Chow / New York Times:
Bob Mankoff is stepping down from his post as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker after a 20-year run; Emma Allen will succeed him in April — Bob Mankoff is stepping down from his post as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker after a 20-year run. — Emma Allen, another editor at the magazine …
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@willystaley, @nytimesarts, @laurenzcollins, @dylanbyers, @jeremywins, @stuartenyt, @kbsmoke, WWD, @andrewgiambrone and Washington Post
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Vice Media's video and TV programming workers, including hundreds of writers, producers, and on-air talent, may unionize as organized labor makes major push — Unions are looking to extend their success in organizing digital newsrooms as media companies expand into video and TV
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@wgaeast, @grimkim, @caseyriankelly, @viceunion, @erifaith and @lalpert1
John Sudworth / BBC:
BBC team assaulted in China, is forced into signing confession for trying to conduct “illegal interview” by thugs and officials, while working on story — We'd arranged to meet a woman in her village in China's central Hunan Province and to then travel with her by train to Beijing, filming as we went.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Journalistic basics resulted in strong stories from two newspapers after weak cable news punditry followed President Trump's Congress speech — Call it the revenge of the reporters over the pundits. — Tuesday night was a low point for “the media” — if such a multi-headed beast …
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