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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
The Village Voice is ending its print edition, will focus on digital operation — The company is doubling down on its digital operation. — Peter Barbey, who purchased the legendary alt-weekly The Village Voice in 2015, has decided to no longer produce a print edition.
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Michael J. Socolow / Washington Post:
A reflection on Gawker and its journalism, like its coverage of Trump long before his presidential campaign, a year to the day since it was forced to close — Gawker wasn't perfect. But in the age of Trump, it's hard not to miss its voice. (Henri Grivot/AP) — One year ago today, Gawker shut down.
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Nieman Lab, @michaelsocolow, The Federalist, New Yorker, The Daily Caller, @mekosoff and @evepeyser
Sruthi Gottipati / The Guardian:
Kim Wall's disappearance is a reminder that the safety of female journalists is not an issue restricted to developing countries — Kim Wall has reported on stories around the world. But she was to disappear in a country known for gender parity: Denmark — met Kim last year.
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@hyltonanne, @rorypecktrust and @gosruthi
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BBC:
Copenhagen police say a woman's headless torso has been found in the search for missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall; it has been sent for forensic analysis — A woman's headless torso has been found by police searching for a Swedish journalist who went missing during a trip with a submarine inventor.
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cphpost.dk, NPR, Business Insider, Gizmodo and The Guardian
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Medium will pay writers based off number of “claps” they get, from subscribers' $5/mo. fee, redesigns its logo, and introduces a metered paywall — At the beginning of the year, Medium announced a big change: 50 staffers were being laid off as the company shifted away …
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Fast Company, 3 min read, Motherboard, @benmullin, The Verge, @ziyatong and @kenjennings, more at Techmeme »
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen:
Former Gawker Executive Editor Tommy Craggs to join HuffPost as a senior enterprise editor — Thrilled to bits to announce that the great @tcraggs22 is joining HuffPost as a senior enterprise editor!
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@lpolgreen
The Daily Beast:
Sources: fired CNN contributor Jeffrey Lord, who was sacked after tweeting a Nazi salute, is in preliminary talks to join Breitbart — It's been nearly two weeks since Jeffrey Lord, the former Reagan administration official and pro-Trump political commentator, was sacked from his contributor job at CNN.
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TVWeek.com, The New York Observer, The Wrap and Mediaite
Bill Adair / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of PolitiFact as it hits its 10th anniversary, with partners across 11 states, a Pulitzer Prize, and revenue that sustains its fact-checking — PolitiFact made this prop Truth-O-Meter for a 2007 promotional music video (watch it below). Courtesy photo.
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Brennan Gilmore / Politico:
Sharing video of Charlottesville car attack made me and my family a target of conspiracy theories from Infowars, Reddit, 4chan, and YouTube, muddying the facts — I witnessed a terrorist attack in Charlottesville. Then the conspiracy theories began. — Last Sunday evening …
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@ccriadoperez, @blakehounshell, @brianweeden, @jamesgibney, @adamrothberg, @anothereitan, @nataliaantonova and Slate
Patrick Frater / Variety:
MPA wins copyright infringement case against Xunlei, a Chinese online video company, is awarded about $234K in costs and damages — A Chinese court has found Xunlei Networking Technologies guilty of copyright infringement. The civil law case was brought by the Hollywood studios under …
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Hollywood Reporter, TorrentFreak and Deadline
Max Willens / Digiday:
HuffPost's homepage traffic is up 23% YoY since unveiling its tabloid redesign in April — This spring, HuffPost's new editor-in-chief, Lydia Polgreen, announced that she wanted the Oath-owned title to become a grand tabloid for the underserved. — It appears to be resonating with HuffPost's core audience.
The Guardian:
Activist group Avaaz launches first steps of a judicial review to challenge Ofcom over its report declaring the Murdochs “fit and proper” owners of Sky — Avaaz threatens to challenge regulator's ruling that Sky would remain ‘fit and proper’ to hold broadcasting licence if it was bought by 21st Century Fox
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