Top News:
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Meredith Corp. has agreed to sell Time magazine for $190M to Marc Benioff, co-founder of Salesforce.com, and his wife, Lynne Benioff — Benioffs won't have day-to-day operational role at Time Magazine — Time magazine will have a new home. — Nearly eight months after Meredith Corp. MDP -.57% completed …
Discussion:
@benioff, TIME, @danprimack, Fast Company, CNNMoney, Associated Press, Talking Biz News, San Francisco Chronicle, @pkafka, Meredith Corporation MediaRoom, New York Times, Adweek, @corytv, Recode, Business Insider, @adamwren, @mattocko, @sruhle, Jonathan D. Woods, @nyggmatic, @norahodonnell, Fortune, @trengriffin, @rafat, @hunterwalk, @alansmurray, @sampjacobs, @pgourevitch, @joshtpm, @sdkstl, @rrhoover, @efelsenthal, @karaswisher, @walterisaacson, @ghoshworld, @brianstelter, @scobleizer, @nancygibbs, @brianstelter, @paulgoldberger, @acsifferlin, @lisaabeyta, @evanasmith, @benmullin, @charlottealter, @jayrosen_nyu, Variety, @ranimolla, @andrewrsorkin, @rafat, @karaswisher, @_ravensfan61, @teddiew, The Week, @jamesloduca, @karaswisher, @adambanksdotcom, @rayroyreed, @anton1s, @sameerpatel, Engadget, HuffPost, Financial Times, NPR, NBC News, The Wrap, Des Moines Register, GeekWire, New York Post, Bloomberg.com, Deadline and Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media, more at Techmeme »
RELATED:
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Marc Benioff says he won't get involved operationally in Time which will remain in New York, with Meredith remaining a key partner — While having a massage late Sunday, the West Coast-based tech billionaire discussed via text message why he was entering the East Coast-based media industry …
Discussion:
@pkafka, @karaswisher, @socarolinesays, @amandalitman, @mat, @mccanner, Joe.My.God., @puiwingtam, @kevinroose, @shanegoldmacher, Business Insider and The Week, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / Recode:
After Time magazine's sale, questions remain about the future of Fortune, Money, and Sports Illustrated, which Meredith has been trying to sell for most of 2018 — Marc Benioff paid a surprising $190 million for Time magazine. Meredith hopes it can find other deep pockets for its other titles.
Discussion:
Press Gazette, @pkafka, Folio, @jtemple, MediaPost, Fortune, Ad Age, @micahwright and The Week
Cora Currier / The Intercept:
Internal memos from 2015, written by US AG for FBI, show how the US government can monitor journalists: high-level DOJ officials bring requests to FISA court — The U.S. government can monitor journalists under a foreign intelligence law that allows invasive spying and operates outside …
Discussion:
Freedom of the Press …
Danah Boyd / Data & Society:
How extremists exploit tech's respect of “free speech” and media's bias to cover “both sides” to amplify fringe messages and get into mainstream conversation — This is a crib of a talk that Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd gave at the Online News Association conference …
Discussion:
@zephoria, @albertocairo, @anildash, @adrienneleigh, @lag6267, @craigsilverman, @losowsky, @jeffjarvis, @bostonjoan, @judytrinhcbc, @dr_tindall, @survgaze, @mayerjoy, @adviserdavid, @jenniferpreston, @wendysawatzky, @survgaze, @marklipton, @egreenspon, @pomeranian99, @craignewmark, @vodkandlime, @_arianna, @derekjohnbryant, @kelsonanderson, @johnverdon, @annehelen, @erickarstens and @marklittlenews, more at Techmeme »
Jesse Brown / CANADALAND:
Jesse Brown, the reporter who initially broke the Jian Ghomeshi story, says Ghomeshi's essay in The New York Review of Books is filled with inaccuracies — Had The New York Review of Books bothered to look into Ghomeshi's claims before publishing his essay, this is what they would have learned
Discussion:
@jessebrown, Fortune, @mattyglesias, @bioethicsjosie, @jojomoyes, @chesterscoville and @daciampaglia
Paige Williams / New Yorker:
A profile of Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, including her public and private relationship with the press, and how she works with Trump — What does the press secretary believe in—other than defending the President's every word? — Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary …
Discussion:
Jezebel, @annehelen, @will_bunch, @jdawsey1, @carolleonnig, @dandrezner, @williams_paige, @alex_lily, @ericboehlert, @joshmankiewicz and @eschor
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Knight Foundation and Lenfest Institute each put $10M into local news, supporting a local lab in Philly and growing Table Stakes program to up to 16 new regions — Boom, baby: After initially joining forces to boost Table Stakes — their project to boost the nation's metro newspapers …
Discussion:
Poynter, Knight Foundation, @jenniferpreston, @torresluzardo, @ylichterman and @aschweig
Hannah Frishberg / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the three profitable independent local news outlets, a bi-weekly and two blogs, in the New York neighbourhood of Roosevelt Island — Roosevelt Island, a thin, roughly two-mile sliver of land in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, is home to some 14,000 New Yorkers …
Livemint:
Sources: Walmart's Flipkart has held early-stage talks with Indian video streaming service Hotstar about acquiring a stake in the company — Flipkart already has some ties with Hotstar, having launched a new video advertisement platform with Hotstar in July
Sigal Samuel / The Atlantic:
How citizen journalists and scholars are using the internet to find Uighur internment and “reeducation” camps and expose the persecution of minorities in China — The country is using high-tech methods of repression, but even the simplest tech may be enough to expose it.
Discussion:
@ambkcsingh and @sigalsamuel, more at Techmeme »
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Tom Arnold, host of Viceland's “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes”, was involved in a physical altercation with Apprentice producer Mark Burnett — The tension between Tom Arnold and Mark Burnett boiled over into a physical altercation at Sunday's Evening Before Emmy party, a fundraiser for the Motion Picture Television Fund.
Discussion:
The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Mediaite, The Week, Vanity Fair, Hollywood Life, CBS San Francisco, Joe.My.God., The Daily Beast and TV Tattle
Deputy Ed. - Gen. Assignment Desk, DC — 
EU Technology Reporter, Brussels — 
Breaking News Reporter, NY — 
Harrisburg Reporter, PA — 
Senior Editor - Styles, NY — 
Part-time Editor, Remote — 
Home & Travel Reporter, Ireland — 
Assistant Digital Editor, MA — 
Senior Editor - Visuals (Temporary), DC — 
Copy Editor, Remote US — 
Markets Reporter, NY/CA — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Food Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer, NV — 
Pharma Editor, Remote — 
Higher Ed. Reporter, Remote CA — 
Politics Reporter, Brussels — 
Investigations & Enterprise Ed., WI — 
Social Strategy Editor, NY — 
Senior Narrative Editor, CA — 
Editor-in-Chief, NY (flexible) — 
Housing Reporter, OK — 
Writer/AI Content Reviewer, CA — 
Writer/Editor, Remote — 
Multi Media Reporter, NC — 
Afternoon/Night Editor, NH — 
Education Lab Editor, WA — 
Senior Editor, Remote US — 
State Worker Reporter, CA — 
Executive Editor, NM — 
News Assistant, NY — 
Local Editor, NJ (Remote) — 
News Writer, CA — 
News Editor/Reporter, KS — 
