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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Group of public radio stations is buying assets of Gothamist, LAist, DCist, and DNAInfo, funded by 2 anonymous donors; Gothamist to post new stories this spring — AFTER BILLIONAIRE JOE Ricketts announced the shuttering of local news organizations Gothamist and DNAInfo last fall …
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump repeats claim in a tweet, and CNN refutes it for the second time, that CNN scripted a town hall question for a school shooting survivor — went after CNN over a Florida school shooting survivor's claim that he didn't participate in a CNN town hall because the network wouldn't let him ask …
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New York Times:
NRATV, the online streaming arm of NRA media, keeps producing pugilistic messages even after school shootings and pushes mistrust in traditional news — NRATV, the organization's online video channel, has become a little-noticed but vital forum for the dissemination of some of the most strident pro-gun messaging in politics.
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Scroll, an upcoming $5-a-month service that removes ads on outlets' sites in exchange for a cut of subscription revenue, signs up The Atlantic, Slate, others — Business Insider, the Atlantic and Fusion Media have signed up for Scroll, a coming subscription service that will charge consumers $5 …
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Nieman Lab, Scroll Blog, USA Today, Poynter, Editor & Publisher and Forbes
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
BBC appoints Donalda MacKinnon to study how to make BBC the “best place for women to work” in the UK, with first recommendations due by the end of June — The BBC has appointed one of its most senior female directors to lead it in its aim to be “the best place for women to work” in the UK.
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The Wrap, Deadline, Press Association, Variety, The Times & The Sunday Times, Independent.ie and Jezebel
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Anchor's redesigned app is a one stop shop for podcasting where users can record, edit, host, publish, and distribute podcasts with analytics — Broadcasting app Anchor, which helps anyone record and share audio, is relaunching its app today with a new focus on serving the larger podcaster community.
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@jonsteinberg, Engadget, Variety, The Verge and 9to5Google
Terry Ganey / Gateway Journalism Review:
Inside the downfall of Missouri's Columbia Daily Tribune as layoffs leave the paper with one full-time reporter 18 months after it was acquired by GateHouse — COLUMBIA, Mo. — Eighteen months after GateHouse Media bought the family-owned Columbia Daily Tribune, the staff has been slashed …
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@mattdpearce, @skjdrama, @scfehr1, @allisonprang, @wibwjonathan, @kclarkcollege and @kwsnet
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Google, YouTube, and Facebook don't find misinformation and hoaxes quickly enough after tragedies, may need breaking news teams to scan for misleading content — In the first hours after last October's mass shooting in Las Vegas, my colleague Ryan Broderick noticed something peculiar …
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@annehelen, @moryan, @hamburger, @mat, @brynnderella, @kantrowitz and @hshaban, more at Techmeme »
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan is named host of Face the Nation, currently the only female solo anchor of a major Sunday political affairs show — WASHINGTON — Margaret Brennan, the senior foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, will be the next moderator of “Face the Nation …
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Mediaite, @neal_katyal, @anncurry, The Wrap, Fort Smith/Fayetteville News, TVNewser and Broadcasting & Cable
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Source: 21st Century Fox nears deal with Sinclair to buy at least 6 Tribune-owned TV stations in Seattle, Denver, Salt Lake City, Sacramento, Cleveland, Miami — 21st Century Fox is closing in on an agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group to buy at least six TV stations …
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FierceCable, Deadline and TVSpy
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
The Wall Street Journal uses 60+ signals and machine learning to give non-subscribers individually tailored access levels based on their propensity to subscribe — Non-subscribers visiting WSJ.com now get a score, based on dozens of signals, that indicates how likely they'll be to subscribe.
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Editor & Publisher, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, @jbenton, @caleweissman, @jbenton, @tcb, @jbenton and @richardrubindc
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Product Hunt launches Sip, a Twitter Moments-style distilled tech news newsletter for iOS and Android, in beta — “We didn't want to create another app thirsty for attention” writes Product Hunt CEO Ryan Hoover. So instead of a constant stream of fresh stories and alerts …
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