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Tom Dotan / The Information:
Univision laid off another 150 people on Thursday across the company, including at Fusion Media Group — The cutting at Univision continues. The company laid off more than 150 people on Thursday, across the company, including at the beleaguered Fusion Media Group.
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Variety, New York Post, The Wrap and The Daily Beast
Berkeleyside:
Berkeleyside, a local news site in Berkeley, CA, completes its direct public offering and raises $1M, the first news site in the country to do so — Berkeleyside announced today that it has raised $1 million in capital from 355 of its readers, making it the first news site in the country to do a successful Direct Public Offering.
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Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Tronc fires Lewis D'Vorkin, chief content officer of Tribune Interactive, and lays off several dozen others, including LA-based video and online content teams — Former Los Angeles Times Editor in Chief Lewis D'Vorkin was fired by Tronc Inc. on Thursday and several dozen other employees of the company were laid off.
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Madison Malone Kircher / New York Magazine:
Sources: Snapchat redesign has led to metrics volatility for Discover publishers; Snap has invited publishers to daylong summits for discussion — When Snapchat first rolled out its redesigned app to a select group in January — users in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom — it was met with an immediate backlash.
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Wall Street Journal and Digiday
Adam Thomas / European Journalism Centre:
The EJC, with €1.7M funding from the News Integrity Initiative and Civil, to offer grants to emerging EU media organizations in October 2018 and February 2019 — It's time to get serious about new journalism models — The European Journalism Centre believes journalists have a key role …
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Journalism.co.uk and Nieman Lab
Richard C. Paddock / New York Times:
At Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo's trial, prosecution witnesses give inconsistent testimony, admit journos didn't betray any secrets that weren't already in the news — YANGON, Myanmar — Once a week, the two Reuters reporters are shuffled out of their prison cells in Yangon, Myanmar …
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Asian Correspondent, NASDAQ.com, Press Gazette and Reporters Without Borders
Tripti Lahiri / Quartz:
Malaysia passes “fake news” law that imposes a $100K+ fine and up to six years in jail on publishers thereof but government could judge what counts as fake news — A month ahead of a general election, Malaysia's new fake-news law has gone into effect—and journalists and rights groups …
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The Straits Times, The Straits Times, NST Online and Free Malaysia Today
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai declines to investigate Sinclair after a dozen senators requested a probe under “news distortion” standard of the public interest test — Pai springs into action—and much faster than when Trump wanted to punish NBC. — Democratic lawmakers yesterday followed …
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
AP acknowledges killing a story in August 2017 on National Enquirer squashing a rumor about a Trump “love child”; NYT and WSJ say they also pursued story — AP acknowledges spiking and then reviving a story of how The National Enquirer paid off a Trump tipster.
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Poynter, @scottmstedman, Mediaite, @will_bunch, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, Washington Post and The Wrap
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Josh Schwartz / Nieman Lab:
Chartbeat: Google Chrome Suggestions is driving 100M+ visits a month to news sites in US on Android, is fast approaching Twitter as a referrer to news — It's driving over 100 million visits a month to news sites in the United States — on Android alone. And it's an even bigger factor in France, Argentina, Brazil, and elsewhere.
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The Guardian:
UK court on right to be forgotten: Google has to remove links about one man who “showed remorse” for past conviction, can keep links for another, who didn't — Businessman wins legal action to force removal of search results about past conviction
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Janko Rottgers / Variety:
Hulu offering subscribers HBO add-on for $4.99/month for a limited time; if used, after six months, price rises to $14.99/month — Hulu is giving its subscribers a deep discount on HBO just in time for the return of “Westworld” later this month: The video subscription service began selling …
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CNET, USA Today, The New York Observer, Engadget, The Verge and Seeking Alpha
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Crowdtangle data for Diamond and Silk's Facebook page shows steady numbers for total interactions; original video views decline was similar to Maddow's page — On Tuesday and Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg came to Washington and testified, for the first time, in front of two Congressional committees.
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