Mediagazer: The Wall Street Journal's desk editors have been told they need to reapply for their positions, amid the newsroom's continued restructure (Kali Hays/WWD)

5:15 PM ET, June 5, 2018

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Kali Hays / WWD:

The Wall Street Journal's desk editors have been told they need to reapply for their positions, amid the newsroom's continued restructure — The Wall Street Journal is still reorganizing its newsroom and editors are taking the brunt of it. Members of The Journal's deep bench of desk editors …

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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

The UK government approves bid from US media giant Comcast to take over Sky, indicates it will approve 21st Century Fox's rival bid if they sell Sky News — UK government conditionally clears Fox and Comcast offers, setting up bidding war — The UK government has approved a bid …

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Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:

Thomson Reuters named Brian Peccarelli and Neil Masterson as its co-chief operating officers on Monday as part of a reorg, which also sees four execs leaving — (Reuters) - Financial news and information company Thomson Reuters (TRI.N)(TRI.TO) named Brian Peccarelli and Neil Masterson …

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Committee to Protect Journalists:

Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the killing of independent music journalist Zachary Stoner on May 30 in Chicago and calls for thorough investigation — The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the killing of independent music journalist Zachary Stoner …

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Andrew Osborn / Reuters:

Russian court sentences Ukrainian reporter Roman Sushchenko to 12 years in prison on spying charges; his lawyer says case was fabricated for political reasons — MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court sentenced a Ukrainian journalist, Roman Sushchenko, to 12 years in a maximum security prison …

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Janko Rottgers / Variety:

Spotify registers with the FCC, a prerequisite to making hardware with wireless capabilities — Spotify really does want to make its own hardware: The company registered with the FCC Tuesday, a key prerequisite to getting devices approved for use in the U.S. Previous reports pointed to plans …

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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:

UK trade body Association for Online Publishing, which represents Condé Nast and The Guardian, says its members lost £13.7M due to ad-blocking in 2017 — Publishers in the UK are losing increasing amounts of revenue to ad-blocking despite a year-on-year decline in the rate of blocking, according to new research.

Pete Brown / Columbia Journalism Review:

Study: Apple News overwhelmingly favors national outlets in newsletters, with just 14 of the 390 articles reviewed coming from regionally focused publishers — Stung by changes to Facebook's News Feed, publishers are reportedly “falling in love with Apple News”—though the affection may not always be mutual.

Discussion: @uniwave and @mathewi

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