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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
A McClatchy-Tronc merger, with Patrick Soon-Shiong as key player, could see a revitalization in California journalism and tech innovation — One's a family-controlled, century-plus-old newspaper chain, known for believing in its civic mission but not for its digital strategy. The other is, well, Tronc.
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Chicago Tribune, Poynter and Editor & Publisher
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 …
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Freedom of the Press …
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 …
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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
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@jessebrown, Fortune, @mattyglesias, @bioethicsjosie, @jojomoyes, @chesterscoville and @daciampaglia
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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Poynter, Knight Foundation, @jenniferpreston, @torresluzardo, @ylichterman and @aschweig
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.
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