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Tronc's sale of Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune to Patrick Soon-Shiong will close on Monday after long negotiations over service agreements — Biotech billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong on Monday will take control of the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune …
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Legendary Entertainment's site the Nerdist removes references to founder and former podcast host Chris Hardwick after his ex-girlfriend's unnamed abuse claims — “Chris Hardwick had no operational involvement with Nerdist for the two years preceding the expiration of his contract in December 2017.
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AMC pulls Chris Hardwick's talk show and appearances on panels at San Diego Comic-Con after abuse allegations from ex-girlfriend — The decision comes one day after Hardwick's ex-girlfriend, Chloe Dykstra, claimed he sexually assaulted her. — AMC has pulled Chris Hardwick's talk show …
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Blockchain-based media startup Civil funds an effort by five former Denver Post reporters and three editors to launch The Colorado Sun by the end of 2018 — They left The Denver Post amid newsroom layoffs and interference in the editorial process by the newspaper's hedge-fund owners.
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Colorado Public Radio, @stoomey, @lillian_ruiz, @myoung, @brandonjcox, @mattcoolidge, @coreyhutchins, @sgurman, @larryryckman, @nushinrashidian, @blairmiller and @ppolitics
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Quoting and stating false claims as facts inadvertently lends them credibility and helps spread Trump's narrative and lies — THE MORNING PLUM: — One of the most important but overlooked lessons in the bombshell report on the handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation is that bad-faith …
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@bryanstearns, @hunterwalk, @shoq, @theplumlinegs, Dan Gillmor, @dangillmor, Splinter, New York Times, CBS Pittsburgh and New York Magazine
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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” …
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The Boston Globe has suspended columnist Kevin Cullen for three months without pay after a review found fabrications in his Marathon bombing remarks — The Boston Globe suspended its columnist Kevin Cullen for three months without pay on Friday after a review found fabricated details …
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BostonGlobe.com, NECN, @spacekatgal, WBUR, Boston Business Journal and Editor & Publisher
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A look at NGOs' journalistic work, how it is impacting partnerships with traditional media, and issues with blurring the lines between advocacy and reporting — It was an impressive display of journalism: An in-depth look at Amazon's marketing of a controversial facial recognition software product to US law enforcement.
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@nicdawes, @annaleighclark, @cjr, @cjr and @mathewi
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Letting AT&T buy Time Warner was wrong since it conflated internet platforms with providers after the government made a weak case — Let's read 170 pages of dunking on Professor Carl Shapiro together — AT&T and Time Warner won a historic court victory this week …
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@jayrosen_nyu, @matthewstoller, @matthewstoller, @halsinger, @gigibsohn and @reckless
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A look at how participants in the Knight-Lenfest local news initiative applied its lessons of serving targeted content, diversifying revenue, and more — Image via Max Pixel. — If you work in local news, you know the misery numbers. Good things spiral down: more than a quarter million jobs lost …
Jack Goldsmith / Knight First Amendment Institute:
US initiatives to spread internet freedom around the world are failing as countries clamp down on unwelcome activities, resort to censorship, and hack opponents — From the second term of the Clinton administration to the end of the Obama administration, the U.S. government pursued an “internet freedom” agenda abroad.
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@jacklgoldsmith, @daphnehk, @evelyndouek and @davidakaye
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How The Cannabist went from near profitable cannabis media darling to aggregation site with no full-time staff and how The Cannifornian may avoid the same fate — Ricardo Baca was at his desk in the heart of The Denver Post's (then) downtown newsroom on Nov. 7, 2016, plotting strategy for what he called …
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Time Warner changes its name to WarnerMedia, new CEO John Stankey says it will need to develop “new plays” to keep up with a fast-changing industry — One day after completing its acquisition of Time Warner, AT&T announced a new name for the media company: WarnerMedia.
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