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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Meredith agrees to buy Time Inc. for $1.85B, at a ~46% premium to Nov. 15's closing price, with $650M coming from Koch brothers, will assume ~$1B in Time's debt — Deal valuing publisher at more than $1.8 billion would be significant bet on future of magazine industry
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Washington Post:
WaPo publishes off-the-record comments by a woman who falsely claimed to be impregnated as a teenager by Roy Moore and had connections with Project Veritas — A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama …
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Marc Lacey / New York Times:
National editor on NYT's Ohio Nazi profile: extreme corners need more light, not less, but “we regret the degree to which the piece offended so many readers” — A profile in The Times of Tony Hovater, a white nationalist and Nazi sympathizer in Ohio, elicited a huge amount …
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Indrani Sen / Quartz:
A NYT profile of a Nazi in Ohio failed to explain why the story exists or why the subject became a fascist activist, and thus the story became a puff piece — Criticizing the New York Times has become something of a national sport in recent years—whether it's over the ludicrous suggestion …
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Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo:
Tumblr founder David Karp announces resignation from the company in email to staff, said decision came “after months of reflection on my personal ambitions” — After 11 years, Tumblr's founder and public face David Karp announced his resignation from the company in a staff email this afternoon.
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John Hilliard / BostonGlobe.com:
Tufts cancels event with Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director, after he threatens to sue a student and school newspaper for defamation — Tufts University postponed a Monday event featuring Anthony Scaramucci, a former Trump White House spokesman …
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Andrew Granato / Stanford Politics:
Inside the Stanford Review, the “contrarian” publication founded by Peter Thiel; former staff say Thiel meets with eds regularly and often hires Review alumni — This is the cover story for the November 2017 issue of Stanford Politics Magazine.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
YouTube's search autofill found to surface disturbing results like “how to have s*x with your kids”, which YouTube says it quickly removed and is investigating — Dozens of users have reported that a YouTube search for “how to have” is auto-completing with pedophiliac phrases.
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Greg Evans / Deadline:
Journalists push back against a Trump tweet criticizing CNN International; CNN's Stelter said the tweet reads like an invitation to harass CNN journalists — President Donald Trump's disparagement of CNN International yesterday might not have been just his usual anti-media disdain, says CNN's Brian Stelter.
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Murray Carpenter / New York Times:
A profile of Reade Brower, whose consolidated ownership of 18 weeklies and 4 dailies in Maine keeps focus on local news coverage and gets politicians' attention — On a drizzly October day here, he could be found tucking into a grilled cheese sandwich with bacon at the Home Kitchen Café …
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Controversial UK columnist Katie Hopkins leaves Mail Online as her contract is “not renewed by mutual consent” — Controversial columnist Katie Hopkins has left Mail Online. — In a statement to Press Gazette, a Mail Online spokesperson said: “Katie's contract was not renewed by mutual consent.”
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Freia Nahser / Global Editors Network:
Q&A with three journalists on how blockchain tech could shape news industry's future, its monetization potential, and why it is like the Internet in early 1990s — Blockchain, the hyped up technology behind bitcoin, is venturing into the news industry, promising more transparency …
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