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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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CNNMoney:
Breitbart EIC Alex Marlow pledges to do dirty work for Bannon to attack WH “globalists”, in response to email prankster, now says emails were “tongue in cheek” — A self-described “email prankster” seemingly fooled top editors at Breitbart over the weekend into believing …
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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.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Facebook enables publishers to upload logos to appear beside posts in Trending and Search now and elsewhere later — A common complaint from publishers who use Facebook is that every story looks the same. Whether it's from CNN, The New York Times or BuzzFeed, they all have the same basic elements: Photo, headline, blurb and source.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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