Mediagazer: Tronc's sale of Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune to Patrick Soon-Shiong closes Monday after long negotiations over service agreements (Meg James/Los Angeles Times)

Katherine Maher / WIRED UK:

As tech firms like Facebook and Google lean more on Wikipedia to fight disinformation, Wikimedia Foundation says they should do more to support the site — If big tech companies are going to use Wikipedia as a resource, they should better support its important work, says the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation

Discussion: Poynter, @johnbattelle, @lorcand, @jay_nath, @carnage4life and @brianmcc

Whitney Curry Wimbish / The Baffler:

Business journalism rarely does investigations and reporters worry that if they step outside of common economic explanations they'll be excluded — Things are going great, according to the Wall Street propaganda machine — The lingering effects of the last crash. Jay Santiago — W — O

Discussion: @thebafflermag, @thebafflermag and @whitneycwimbish

Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:

Sources: Tronc is in talks about selling nine of its properties, including the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, and the Baltimore Sun — What will happen to the price of Tronc shares as investors, a good number of speculators among them, assess the post-L.A. Times value …

Discussion: @newsbyschmidt, LA Observed and Editor & Publisher

Robert Feder:

Chicago Sun-Times sells alt-weekly The Chicago Reader to group led by Dorothy Leavell, publisher of the African-American Chicago Crusader — The Chicago Reader, the city's leading alternative weekly for 47 years, has been sold to a group led by Dorothy Leavell, publisher of the African-American Chicago Crusader.

Discussion: Chicago Tribune and Gary/Chicago Crusader

Nancy Cook / Politico:

The White House press and communications teams, left without an official director since Hope Hicks left in March, are struggling with in-fighting and departures — Amid the ongoing exodus, staffers are happy to let the president act as his own top spokesman.

Discussion: Splinter, @kenvogel, @michaelkruse, @jonlemire, @keithboykin and @hatewatch

Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:

Startup reallyread.it hopes to foster dialogue among commenters via a plugin that tracks how much of the article has been read and a homepage for debate — The battle against the uncivil comments section is also a battle against high bounce rates for reallyread.it.

Discussion: @niemanlab, @jacobwe, @sarahdrinkwater and @niemanlab

Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

Indian police have linked dozens of murders and serious assaults to fake news being spread via WhatsApp — App blamed for circulating false information in India, Brazil, Kenya and now the UK — Abijeet Nath and Nilotpal Das were driving back from a visit to a waterfall in the Indian province …

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

YouTube Music and YouTube Premium now available in Canada and 11 European markets, including the U.K., France, Germany, and Russia — YouTube today expanded YouTube Music and YouTube Premium to the services' first new markets since they officially debuted last month.

Discussion: Variety

Tim Peterson / Digiday:

Publishers like Vox Media and BuzzFeed Studios signing deals with Hollywood talent agencies to help them land video deals for original programming — Vox Media likely wouldn't have been able to sell its upcoming show, “American Style,” to CNN without the help of Hollywood talent agency WME.

Discussion: @digiday, @digiday and @katelaurielee

Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider:

Over 400 Washington Post employees have signed an open letter to owner Jeff Bezos requesting fair benefits and wages — - More than 400 Washington Post employees addressed an open letter to owner Jeff Bezos. — They signed a petition calling for fair pay, benefits, and job security, decrying “shocking” current practices.

Discussion: @themediaisdying, Melville House Books, Gizmodo, The Guardian and Mediaite

Ian Mohr / Page Six:

Moira Donegan, creator of the Shitty Media Men list, is working on a book about it, likely to primarily be a critique of sexism in media — Moira Donegan — the journalist who created the “S - - tty Media Men” list — is shopping a “S - - tty Media Men” book, sources exclusively tell Page Six.

Discussion: @publisherswkly

ProPublica:

A look at some of the journalism ads flagged as political by Facebook, showing how Facebook's screening policies are creating problems for media organizations — One ad couldn't have been more obviously political. Targeted to people aged 18 and older, it urged them to “vote YES” …

Discussion: @vogon and @propublica