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Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dies of pancreatic cancer at 57 — Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city's vast culinary landscape and made its food understandable and approachable to legions of fans, has died.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Study of 3,000 US adults: users are more likely to trust news when they do not see identifying source info; Vox, Fox, and Breitbart trusted least when labeled — Not that they can remember the source five minutes later, anyway. — People don't always remember the precise source of their news.
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Kimberly Guilfoyle abruptly leaves Fox News; sources say she may take a job at the non-profit America First Policies and join Trump Jr. on the campaign trail — Kimberly Guilfoyle leaving Fox News to campaign with Donald Trump Jr. — Kimberly Guilfoyle, a Fox News host and one of the network's top stars …
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Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
As LA Times moves to new offices, the owner Patrick Soon-Shiong talks about his plans for the paper, competition with NYT and WaPo, and why he moved into media — Patrick Soon-Shiong despises clickbait and says the future belongs to quality journalism. Will his gamble pay off?
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Simon Dumenco / Ad Age:
Q&A with Eric Gillin and Amiel Stanek of Basically, a millennial foodie brand, on how video has made recipes evolve, the pros of SEO, and making less content — Under Editor-in-Chief Adam Rapoport, Condé Nast's venerable food magazine Bon Appétit has been on an extended hot streak.
Freia Nahser / Global Editors Network:
Inside Fox Sports, The Times, and Le Figaro's efforts to use AI, Alexa voice actions, and automation for their World Cup reporting — Fox Sports, The Times, and Le Figaro have tapped into AI, voice AI, and automation for their World Cup reporting. — The World Cup 2018 is all over.
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
The success of the In the Dark podcast's donor-only Facebook group, with $50 minimum donation to join and 250+ members, shows how publishers can monetize groups — The podcast has found opportunity with a donors-only Facebook group. Its second-season subject Curtis Flowers is still in prison …
Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: Alibaba, Tencent, and CMC are in early-stage discussions about buying roughly 20% of WPP China, valuing the business between $2B and $2.5B — Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings, the two biggest names in China's technology industry, are in talks to buy a stake in the $2.5bn (£1.9bn) Chinese operations of WPP Group.
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporters moving from the Denver Post to the Colorado Sun is a sign that journalists from Texas to Tennessee increasingly see news startups as viable jobs — The politics desk at The Denver Post has imploded. Starting in April with voluntary exits that included Brian Eason, a Statehouse reporter …
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Facebook executives struggle to describe a coherent strategy to deal with misinformation on the site; it's a hodgepodge of “exceptions to the exceptions” — Facebook was once the most nimble company of its generation. The speed at which it adapted to every challenge was legendary.
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Q&A with NYT tech reporter David Streitfeld on staying away from Twitter and Facebook, covering Amazon, and raising a child in a largely tech-free home — How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? David Streitfeld, a technology reporter …
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Ricardo Lopez / Variety:
Time's Up and USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative to launch database of entertainment journalists and critics from underrepresented groups — Time's Up and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on Wednesday said it would be launching a database containing the names of entertainment journalists …
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