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Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
Reporter recounts being pressured by Google and her bosses to take down a Forbes piece in 2011 criticizing Google's monopolistic practices with Plus and search — The story in the New York Times this week was unsettling: The New America Foundation, a major think tank, was getting rid …
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Glenn Beck announces layoffs for 20% of staff at TheBlaze and Mercury Radio Arts; source estimates number at about 50 — The host announced that 20 percent of his staff was dismissed on Thursday. — Despite an uptick of interest in political news and the ascendant trajectory …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Spotify's head of original video and podcasting, Tom Calderone, is leaving as firm rethinks its video strategy, tying it more closely to music — Streaming company says videos will focus around music — Spotify Ltd. is parting ways with Tom Calderone, the head of original video and podcasts …
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Jazmine Hughes / New York Times:
Profile of Elaine Welteroth, EIC of Teen Vogue, which is monetizing its progressiveness with a coming TV integration, a reader convention, a line of merchandise — The editor in chief has taken on a seemingly impossible task: reinventing the glossy magazine for a hyperempathetic generation.
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Colin Moynihan / New York Times:
Local union president says Village Voice will lay off 13 of 17 union workers when print edition ends the third week of September — Just before 3 p.m. on Wednesday, employees at The Village Voice in Manhattan received an email from co-workers saying that the weekly newspaper appeared to be on the verge of announcing layoffs.
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New York Daily News, @nytmedia, Ross Barkan, @hamiltonnolan and @jill_jorgensen
Michael Blanding / Nieman Reports:
How some news outlets are covering climate change well, amid a dearth of coverage from networks, uneven newspaper coverage, and issues with false balance — A look at news outlets bringing innovation, urgency and new audiences to stories on climate change — The assignment was simple …
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Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Breitbart has hired Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, candidate for governor, and vice chair of Trump's election commission, as a columnist — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is now a regular columnist on the far-right news site run by President Donald Trump's former chief strategist.
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Mediaite, The Week, @jasonkander, @bryanlowry3, @lrozen and @_rscottwhitley_
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
The appointment of neoconservative journalist Bari Weiss to The New York Times' op-ed team reinforces the paper's lack of viewpoint diversity — Controversy erupted on April 14 over the New York Times' hiring of neoconservative climate-skeptic and anti-Arab polemicist Bret Stephens …
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Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Time Inc. will stream a cooking show on Facebook later this year, and plans to produce about 40 hours of TV programming that will be licensed to 12 networks — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Inc, publisher of magazines including People and Sports Illustrated, is turning to the internet to distribute …
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
UK's Oldham Evening Chronicle folds after 163 years as the majority of its 49 staffers were made redundant — The Oldham Evening Chronicle has gone into administration with the majority of its 49 staff made redundant and the daily paper, first established in 1854, ceasing publication.
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@martinsfp, @pressgazette, @rosalynrodenoc and @jamesshield1
The Daily Beast:
Sources: Lifezette has become an uncomfortable place for women to work, with CEO Peter Anthony often making sexually suggestive comments about female staffers — LifeZette, the politics and culture website founded by prominent ally of President Donald Trump and longtime talk radio host Laura Ingraham, is in trouble.
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DFRLab:
After documenting botnet attack on ProPublica, DFR Lab faced its own attack from bots and impersonators, including one tweet saying DFR staffer had died — Twitter bots unleashed in a social media disruption tactic — Overnight from August 28 to August 29, a major Twitter botnet opened …
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