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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
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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
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Sources: Mikhail Lesin, Putin's former media czar who founded Russia Today, was murdered in DC just before a planned meeting with US Justice Department — Vladimir Putin's former media czar was murdered in Washington, DC on the eve of a planned meeting with the U.S. Justice Department …
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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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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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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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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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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.
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 …
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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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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