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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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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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BuzzFeed:
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.
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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Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism jobs (media …:
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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Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ Report: a lack of political will to end violence and impunity exposes Mexico as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists — Mexico's press is caught in a deadly cycle of violence and impunity, with journalists in Veracruz state at particular risk of kidnap and murder.
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New York Times and @pressfreedom
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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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Profile of InfoWars' Alex Jones, who is now an insider after a career spent crusading against the establishment and the elite — AUSTIN — It was the winter of 1997 and Alex Jones couldn't stop getting punched in the face. — Out on the cracked asphalt of Austin Public Access …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
New report details every step in the Electionland initiative, a 1000+ person effort led by ProPublica, including a post mortem — Let's relive Tuesday, November 8, 2016 again. — Not the presidential election — the Electionland project, spearheaded by ProPublica, and an monumental effort …
Recode:
Interview with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on his approach to media ownership rules, mergers, net neutrality, and investment in broadband infrastructure — Net neutrality, antitrust, infrastructure, mergers — it's all here. — On this special bonus episode of Recode Decode …
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Business Insider:
Sources: Facebook planning on premiering about 24 TV-like shows in mid-June, has greenlit virtual-reality dating show from Condé Nast Entertainment — Facebook has kicked its push for TV-like shows into high gear and is aiming to premiere its slate of programming in mid-June …
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