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10:40 AM ET, May 21, 2018

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New York Times:
More than two dozen editors and writers who worked at Time Inc. reflect on the company's rise to prominence and its slow decline that began about a decade ago  —  It was once an empire.  Now it is being sold for parts.  —  Time Inc. began, in 1922, with a simple but revolutionary idea hatched by Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden.
Matt Labash / Weekly Standard:
Profile of Charlie LeDuff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-NYT correspondent who covered overlooked people before leaving journalism to work in a hot dog joint  —  Charlie LeDuff anticipated all the problems that Trump's election made plain to the rest of us—then he fell into the Hole himself.
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
Inside Facebook's deletion center in Berlin, where 1,200 people review posts violating firm's rules or German law and decide what is free speech or hate speech  —  A country taps its past as it leads the way on one of the most pressing issues facing modern democracies: how to regulate the world's biggest social network.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
TheSkimm, a digital-media company built on a daily newsletter aimed at millennial women, closes $12M Series C from Shonda Rhimes, Tyra Banks, others  —  Willow Bay, Jesse Draper, Linnea Roberts, Hope Taitz are also among female-focused media firm's new backers
Discussion: @rafat and @mdudas
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Q&A with Chad Nackers, editor-in-chief of The Onion, on how the site satirizes the Trump administration  —  The comedy website has had to develop new strategies and new characters for a president who often defies satire.  —  A lot has changed since 2013, when the editors of The Onion got …
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
In speech to Yale students at weekend, Hillary Clinton urged students to fight back against fake news by supporting journalists and subscribing to newspapers  —  The 2016 presidential candidate warns students that without facts, the U.S. will be on the road to tyranny
Sky News:
UK Culture Secretary Matt Hancock says he is “not minded” to order regulatory intervention in Comcast's £22B bid for Sky  —  Culture Secretary Matt Hancock has announced that he is not “minded” to order regulatory intervention into Comcast's £22bn offer for Sky.
Discussion: Variety, The Guardian, Deadline and CNBC
Brady Dale / CoinDesk:
VideoCoin, blockchain-based video streaming project backed by CNET co-founder Halsey Minor, raises $50M in an ICO completed via private placements  —  Streaming a TV show or a sports game directly to your laptop doesn't make big TV networks much money today.
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with Vox Media's Jim Bankoff on the challenges facing digital media companies, partnering with Hollywood, and the growth of podcasting  —  The New York-based exec also opens up about what he learned when the dotcom world went belly-up.  —  As an AOL executive in Silicon Valley in the early 2000s …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK regulator Ofcom has opened three new investigations into RT, reviewing its impartiality as a broadcaster, bringing the total number of enquiries up to 11  —  UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has opened three new investigations into the due impartiality of RT (formerly Russia Today) …
 
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Idahoan, a publication by a PAC veteran, stirs controversy with some claiming it is a political mailer, as deputy AG rules it is a newspaper under Idaho law
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Profile: Fox News' Neil Cavuto, a Trump skeptic who champions capitalism, financial markets, and free trade, and whose health makes for unique on-air challenges
Discussion: The Hill and Racked
Ernie Smith / Motherboard:
A history of the music industry's first efforts at creating music streaming services after Napster and why they failed given the importance of streaming now
Discussion: Techdirt
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David Taylor / The Guardian:
A year into the Mueller investigation, viewer burnout regarding Trump reflected in falling ratings for CNN and Fox as channels ignore other national issues