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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Us Weekly dropped a story around 2013 on alleged affair between Donald Trump Jr. and Aubrey O'Day after legal threats from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen — Federal probe looks closely at money flowing in and out of Essential Consultants — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney …
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Joseph Otterson / Variety:
ABC News' interview with former FBI Director James Comey averaged 9.8M viewers but failed to beat ratings for “60 Minutes” interview with Stormy Daniels — ABC News' interview with former FBI Director James Comey did well in the Sunday overnight ratings but failed to nab the number one spot.
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TVNewser, The Wrap, The New York Observer, Broadcasting & Cable, Mediaite, The Wrap and The Gateway Pundit
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Polina Rumyantseva, the editor in chief of Novy Den - where Russian journalist Maksim Borodin worked - says she does not believe his death was a suicide — Russian investigative journalist Maksim Borodin of Yekaterinburg has died of injuries sustained on April 12 when he fell from the window of his fifth-floor apartment.
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Jessica Dye / Financial Times:
Tronc shares up about 10% after report of SoftBank interest — Shares of Tronc are pushing higher on Monday morning after a report that SoftBank is among several bidders eyeing the US news publisher. — Tronc shares, which were briefly halted as interest surged following the report from Axios …
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Nieman Lab, Bloomberg, CNBC, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Investor's Business Daily
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
WPP CEO Martin Sorrell resigns following investigation into personal misconduct; Mark Read and Andrew Scott appointed joint COOs — Boss of world's largest marketing group steps aside amid investigation into personal misconduct … Martin Sorrell has said he will step down as head of the British-based global advertising agency WPP.
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Julie Reynolds / The Nation:
A look at how Alden Capital is literally bleeding Digital First Media dry, with $248.5M of newspaper employees' pensions invested in Alden funds — Stop Alden Global Capital before it kills again. — The rebellion last week by The Denver Post's editorial board against newspaper's hedge-fund owners …
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Philly.com, @drewmagary, @julia_sci and @aaschapiro
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Report for America, a nonprofit organization modeled after AmeriCorps, aims to install 1,000 journalists in understaffed newsrooms by 2022 — A group of journalists have decided to do something about the diminution of newsrooms at the local level. They're making reporting part of a national service program.
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@mattdpearce, @kenyabradshaw and @robbyerswv
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
How freelance reporter Greg Donahue uncovered the life of Ron Porambo, a journalist who reported on the underworld of America before turning to a life of crime — RON PORAMBO WAS A JOURNALIST. He was an author and a visionary. He was also a robber and killer.
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@atavistmag, @cjr, @cjr and @jon_allsop
Ernst-Jan Pfauth / De Correspondent:
De Correspondent designs a system to tap members' expertise to aid its reporting and hopes to launch a global English-language site in 2019 — There's a great untapped resource in journalism, and it's available to journalists right now. — It's the experience and expertise of your readers.
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@membershippzzle and @niemanlab
Elon Green / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Kevin Feeney, who penned the first profile of Facebook as a college journalist at the Harvard Crimson in 2005 and now works for a real estate firm — Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moscovitz, co-founders of Facebook, in 2004. Photo: Justine Hunt/The Boston Globe via Getty Images.
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@elongreen and @jswatz
Hollywood Reporter:
As it expands globally, Netflix is increasingly facing political backlash over its programming choices in places like Brazil, Israel, and the Philippines — Scandals involving shows in Brazil, Israel and the Philippines highlight the challenge for the streaming giant as it tries …
Ivan Moreno / Associated Press:
US publishers worry a ~28% temporary tariff on Canadian newsprint, which may become permanent in August or September, will force smaller publications to close — https://apnews.com/6d5ab2d12f58491780be 69d219338b43 — MILWAUKEE (AP) — Newspaper publishers across the U.S. already strapped …