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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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Wall Street Journal:
Snap closed first day of trading at $24.51 per share, 44% above original price of $17, valuing the company at around $34B
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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.
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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Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
Even in an age of nearly-real-time news, big stories still often break in the evening because of newspaper print deadlines
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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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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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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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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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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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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Interview with Matt DeRienzo, who was named LION's executive director this week, on trends, business models, and making newsrooms “healthy again” — When Matt DeRienzo started working with Local Independent Online News Publishers two years ago, he thought the local news business had hit the bottom of cuts and layoffs.
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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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