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4:20 AM ET, May 7, 2018

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Tronc agrees to recognize journalists' unions at its Chicago-area publications, including The Chicago Tribune, suburban outlets, and design/print center  —  The troubled Tronc media company agreed Sunday evening to recognize unions to represent journalists in negotiations at its Chicago-area publications …
Reah Bravo / The New York Review of Books:
Essay by former Charlie Rose intern and producer on why she put up with sexual harassment from Rose despite advance knowledge that his behavior was well-known  —  Of all my assignments for Charlie Rose, the one that came with the oddest sense of happiness was when he asked that I unclog …
New York Daily News:
A New York Post police reporter was fired after admitting a “brief personal relationship” with a prostitute who was a source for his story on police corruption  —  The New York Post's police bureau chief was axed after admitting he had an affair with a hooker who's the star witness …
Discussion: Daily Mail
Financial Times:
Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent are investing heavily in short videos as the format explodes in China; analyst says the top four apps had 582M users last quarter  —  The rapid growth of short-video start-ups has prompted China's biggest technology groups to plough funds into the sector, as Baidu …
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
UK's ICO orders Cambridge Analytica to hand over data it has on a US voter who brought a complaint, including how the data was obtained and what it was used for  —  In landmark cross-border decision, Information Commissioner's Office gives company 30 days to comply with David Carroll's request
EU vs DISINFORMATION:
Before five Swedish publishers were able to launch a site for their announced fact-checking initiative Faktiskt, a pro-Kremlin, “ethnic rights” copycat appeared  —  Copycat site to the left, original fact-checking initiative to the right.  —  Last week, five Swedish publishers started …
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
A look at Turkey's Cumhuriyet newspaper, targeted by President Erdogan, with some staffers jailed for months and others still reporting and publishing  —  ISTANBUL — After sharing a prison cell for more than a year, the top executives of Turkey's oldest newspaper were convicted in April and given heavy sentences for aiding terrorism.
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
As GDPR enactment approaches, news publishers worry about properly interpreting the law, making consent user-friendly, organizing data, and Google's attitude  —  What is it?  Why is it happening?  Who does it affect?  Who does it benefit?  What work does becoming compliant with this law involve?
Discussion: @rasmus_kleis
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
At the Star-Tribune, budgeting starts with estimating print ad revenue decline and making up for it with events, digital subscription growth, e-commerce, more  —  Two years ago I chronicled how the Star Tribune of Minneapolis had become a widely celebrated fast horse in the slow field of metropolitan newspapers.
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of CNN's Brian Stelter, who says his job has changed from reporting facts to taking a stand and giving reported analysis in the Trump era  —  Screenshot via CNN.  —  On a recent Sunday morning, 20 minutes before his show goes live, Brian Stelter is multitasking.
 
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Omaha World-Herald:
Warren Buffett says only perhaps the New York Times, WSJ, and Washington Post have a digital product with robust enough revenue to be viable over the long-term
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Meredith CEO says deadline for first-round bids on Time, SI, Money, Fortune is May 11; company expects $100M for Fortune; SI expected to fetch $150, says source
Discussion: Deadspin
Scott Bay / Wired:
How filmmakers could use machine learning, trained on data from prior box office hits, to predict a movie's success by understanding what motivates moviegoers
 Earlier Picks: 
Jackie Spinner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of one-year-old The Triibe, a Chicago digital media site for black millenials that wants to counter the legacy media narrative of a broken city
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
A look at The Local Europe, a group of sites across nine countries, which offers expats practical advice and hopes to convert its community into paying members
 

 
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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income

Molly White / Citation Needed:
As people yearn for the web's “good old days”, bringing those days back is possible with new tech, the possibility of new protocols, and more internet users

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Testimony: UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty says the Change Healthcare hack impacted “maybe” 30% of US citizens; UnitedHealth will notify users in “several months”

 
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