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Reuters:
Sources: Sinclair close to buying Tribune Media for ~$44 a share; Tribune closed at $40.29 on Friday — Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc (SBGI.O) is nearing a deal to acquire Tribune Media Co (TRCO.N) after prevailing in an auction for the U.S. regional TV station owner, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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Eleanor Kagan / BuzzFeed:
HuffPost Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen says she has hired former Daily News Editor-in-Chief Jim Rich as executive editor — Lydia Polgreen talks about her career and her plans on NewsFeed with @BuzzFeedBen. She also reveals a big hire: former Daily News boss Jim Rich. — Director of Audio
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@brianstelter, @buzzfeedben, @jayrosen_nyu, @lpolgreen, iNews and @lpolgreen
Paul Colgan / Business Insider Australia:
TPG Capital bids for Fairfax Media's metro papers, including Sydney Morning Herald, digital unit that publishes BI, HuffPost in Australia, and real-estate unit — Fairfax Media is considering a fresh proposal from US private equity giant TPG Capital to buy the Domain real estate business …
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Financial Review, National Business Review, Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian
Zeynep Tufekci / BuzzFeed:
Advice for France: use caution in reporting on uncurated dumps of hacked emails, which can fuel viral misinformation, violate privacy, and confuse the public — A brief guide to the information wars. — Ooh, la la. So, it happened to you too. The frontrunning presidential candidate got hacked …
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After Le Pen's party banned BuzzFeed, Politico, Charlie Hebdo, more from election-night event, Le Monde, Bloomberg, and others pulled their reporters out too — The banning happened shortly after BuzzFeed News published investigations exposing racist and antisemitic statements made by Front National candidates.
BBC:
Ahead of June 8 UK general election, Facebook publishes ads in UK papers, including The Times, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, to raise awareness about fake news — Facebook has broadened its campaign to raise awareness about fake news, by publishing adverts in the UK press.
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New York Times, The Guardian, Recode, The Drum, Fortune and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, more at Techmeme »
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Prosecuting Julian Assange under the Espionage Act, for publishing leaked information, would create a massive threat to press freedom in the US — Lady Gaga — all in black and wearing a witch's hat — is interviewing Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he's been holed up for years.
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@kombuchababy, @reaganbattalion, @jimrutenberg, @wikileaks and @infinnnerty
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Profile of The Pudding, a site publishing painstakingly crafted data visualization essays, financed via founders' work for clients like YouTube and Google — “Our goal is for The Pudding to be a weekly journal. We specifically seek out stories that aren't news related, because we don't want to compete in that space."
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@ylichterman and @niemanreports
USA Today:
Gannett asks FBI to probe wave of phony Facebook accounts that like USA Today and affiliates; firm has taken steps including blocking new Bangladeshi followers — SAN FRANCISCO - The parent company of USA TODAY said it had asked the FBI to investigate a wave of fake Facebook accounts so large …
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The Verge, @iambhutia, News18, Newsmax, CBS News, @politicalshort, @denniskneale, bdnews24.com, @methusheilah, The Hill and Axios
Devin Leonard / Bloomberg:
Profile of Ryan Schreiber and his influential music website Pitchfork about two years after its acquisition by Condé Nast — Baby's All Right, a club in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, is almost full when Ryan Schreiber arrives. A burly 41-year-old, he's wearing a dark overcoat open …
Jim Waterson / BuzzFeed:
How a small group of “alt-left” British websites, including The Canary, built enormous audiences on Facebook with relentless pro-Corbyn coverage — Even if you're a political obsessive you've probably never heard of Thomas G Clark. It's understandable: He's not a politician …
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Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Interview with producer and host Alex Laughlin of The Washington Post's first in-house narrative podcast — ‘Other: Mixed race in America’ is a five-part mini-series that will feature new episodes every day this week — Credit: Screenshot from ‘Other: Mixed race in America’ from The Washington Post
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