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Will Oremus / Slate:
The push for an antitrust exemption highlights the contradiction between the civic purpose and for-profit motive of newspapers — But it could help them resolve their existential crisis. — Newspapers' business models have been taking on water for years thanks to the rise of Google …
Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:
Sources: ahead of Time Warner buy, AT&T plans to create telecom and media arms with separate CEOs, overseen by Randall Stephenson, who will become exec chairman — Co-chiefs to run separate communications and media businesses — Stephenson sheds CEO title, will oversee company as chairman
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Wall Street Journal, TVWeek.com, Variety, CNNMoney, The Hill, Android Police, Deadline, Light Reading, ZDNet, @taralach, @stevekopack, @lucas_shaw, @crayton_h, @edmundlee and Fortune
Tim Keck / The Stranger:
Seattle alt weekly The Stranger announces plans to print every two weeks starting in the fall, says it's profitable and not cutting staff — Starting this fall, The Stranger—the smart, funny, irreverent, Pulitzer Prize-winning guide to Seattle—will publish on a biweekly schedule …
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@dominicholden and Portland Mercury, Thanks:@gitagovinda
BuzzFeed:
In a familiar pattern, right-wing personalities and media spread false claims about a Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr., with one claim amplified by Trump — Pro-Trump media figures have gone as far as to falsely suggest that the Russian attorney may have planted a listening device for the Obama administration.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica UK:
Net neutrality Day of Action resulted in 3.4M emails to congress, 1.6M+ comments to FCC, but Comcast, Verizon, CenturyLink continue to seek less strict rules — Comcast, Verizon, and CenturyLink counter pro-net neutrality “Day of Action.” — Broadband providers made it clear this week …
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DSLreports, Recode, BGR, New York Magazine, Grist and Consumerist
Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:
Google Play Music's New Release Radio, previously an exclusive for Samsung users, now available to all; station is based on users' listening history — Google has officially announced New Release Radio, a station on Google Play Music that provides users with a daily selection of new songs …
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Google, MediaPost, BetaNews, Variety, 9to5Google, The Verge, RAIN News, TechCrunch and Android Police, more at Techmeme »
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Publishers like Hearst, Bustle, TechCrunch, BBC News, and Mic are shifting their enthusiasm from Snapchat to Instagram — Hearst's Kate Lewis can easily rattle off the company's Instagram stats. Half the company's brands have more than 1 million followers. Harper's Bazaar has 3 million.
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@jason_kint, @kerrymflynn, @niemanlab and @digiday
Marc Schneider / Billboard:
Warner Music Group acquires core assets of concert discovery platform Songkick, including website and app, but not ticketing functions — Warner Music Group has acquired many of the core assets of concert discovery platform Songkick, including its website and app, along with the trademark.
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New York Times, TechCrunch, Warner Music Group, @jonty, IQ Magazine and Variety
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
New owner of Chicago Sun-Times plans no layoffs, will move the newsroom into the offices of Answers Media, which it has now acquired too — MORE FROM: … The Chicago investors who in just over a month raised the funds to buy the Sun-Times, the Chicago Reader and the other properties …
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Curbed Chicago and Poynter
Gary Abernathy / Washington Post:
The editor and publisher of Ohio's Times-Gazette believes national news outlets take Trump's media broadsides too personally, abandoning fairness — Gary Abernathy is publisher and editor of the (Hillsboro, Ohio) Times-Gazette. — HILLSBORO, Ohio — Just like our larger media counterparts …
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Vanity Fair, The Daily Caller, @timjgraham, @fordneyenergy, @cnfannon, @bennyjohnson, @raju, @abernathygary and @jeffpearlman
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Appeals court rules that New York shield law protects Reorg Research from having to disclose the names of its sources; Murray Energy vows continued litigation — Bankruptcy news is news. — New York State has a “shield law” that allows journalists to keep their sources confidential.
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Featured Articles, Distressed Debt Investing, New York Law Journal, @maxfrumes, Law360 and @eriqgardner
Corinne Grinapol / Adweek:
The New Yorker has hired BuzzFeed's Dan Oshinsky as director of newsletters, a new position for the magazine — It's a new position for the publication — The New Yorker has snagged BuzzFeed's director of newsletters to lead its own newsletter efforts. Dan Oshinsky will join the publication …
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