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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Emerson Collective, founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, agrees to acquire a majority stake in The Atlantic, with full ownership possible in the coming years — Emerson Collective, the organization founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, has agreed to acquire a majority stake in The Atlantic magazine …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Sources: Choire Sicha will be the next editor of The New York Times Styles section — After a prolonged search, the former Gawker and Awl editor ascends. — Choire Sicha will be the next editor of The New York Times Styles section, multiple sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Vanity Fair.
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Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
Pulitzer-winning reporter James Risen is taking a buyout from The New York Times after nearly two decades — The high-profile reporter is taking a buyout as the paper reorganizes its newsroom. — Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen is leaving The New York Times after nearly two decades …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
NYT chief book reviewer and Pulitzer winner Michiko Kakutani is stepping down after nearly 40 years at the newspaper — Kakutani, who helped make the careers of writers from Foster Wallace to McEwan, and put fear in the hearts of Mailer and Vidal, will leave her post as one of the most formidable critics in the Times history.
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Axios:
Sources: Anthony Scaramucci has told associates he plans to dramatically pare back his interactions with journalists following his comments to The New Yorker — Incoming White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has told associates he plans to dramatically pare back his interactions …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Information is launching an incubator that will support subscription news startups — Former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin has already launched her own subscription news company, The Information. Now, she wants to help others do the same, Axios has learned.
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Max Willens / Digiday:
The New York Times' pop-up Game of Thrones newsletter has garnered more than 61K subscribers in three weeks — In just three weeks, a pop-up newsletter The New York Times launched around “Game of Thrones” has already garnered over 61,000 subscribers, the company said.
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Christina Wilkie / Center for Public Integrity:
Steve Bannon's use of publicist Alexandra Preate, whose firm Capital HQ works for Breitbart News, is without precedent and may violate law, ethicists say — Private publicist, not White House spokespeople, flacking for top Trump aide — In an arrangement prominent ethics experts …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Twitter is testing a subscription service that automatically promotes advertisers' profiles and up to first 10 tweets a day for $99 per month — Twitter is testing an advertising subscription service that automatically promotes advertisers' tweets and profiles for $99 per month.
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Kathy Frankovic / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Economist/YouGov Poll shows a third of US public is willing to have courts fine news outlets for bias or error; 45% of Republicans approve of closing outlets — 53% of U.S Adults disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling the media — As President Donald Trump continues to attack what he calls …
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources describe Facebook's paywall plan: 10 free articles/month from a publisher before redirect to publisher's subscription site, with no cut for Facebook — Mark Zuckerberg says he doesn't want publishers' data, either. — Facebook says it wants to help publishers sell subscriptions.
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Companies are increasingly paying Facebook to promote positive press, steering ad dollars away from publishers — When the workplace gossip app Blind expanded its product's availability earlier this summer, it got the word out via an age-old tactic: advertising.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sources: MSNBC correspondent Kasie Hunt is likely to get her own two-hour show on Sunday evenings — MSNBC correspondent Kasie Hunt is likely to get her own show on Sunday evenings, two sources with knowledge of the situation tell POLITICO. — The deal is not done yet and the show does …
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