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Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO and Netflix tie for the most Emmy wins, taking home 23 each; Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel won eight awards; Hulu won four — HBO is still the Emmy champion — but it has some company at the top. — The streaming era has already turned the TV business upside down …
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The Wrap, The Wrap, Variety, Adweek, Variety, Multichannel News, The Week, AOL and The Ringer, more at Techmeme »
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, @underoak and @jbphebus
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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@pkafka, @karaswisher, @socarolinesays, @amandalitman, @mat, @mccanner, @kevinroose, CBS San Francisco, @puiwingtam, @shanegoldmacher, Awful Announcing, CNNMoney, Business Insider, Joe.My.God., Adweek, The Wrap and The Week
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the Benioffs are paying approximately 5.76 times the operating earnings for Time Magazine, which is expected to see a 9% revenue decline this year — Marc and Lynne Benioff are paying roughly 5.76 times operating earnings for Time magazine, which is expected to see a 9% decline in revenue this year
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Digiday, Vanity Fair, New York Times, @trengriffin, Business Insider and Recode
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
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@benioff, @danprimack, @pkafka, Business Insider, @benioff, New York Times, @jtemple, Fast Company, The Wrap, @corytv, Adweek, Press Gazette, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME, @teddiew, @rafat, @pgourevitch, @norahodonnell, @adamwren, @ranimolla, @acsifferlin, @charlottealter, @joshtpm, @evanasmith, @trengriffin, The Daily Caller, @efelsenthal, @pkafka, @rrhoover, @ghoshworld, @sruhle, @andrewrsorkin, @hunterwalk, @karaswisher, @sampjacobs, @jayrosen_nyu, @nancygibbs, @karaswisher, @alansmurray, Talking Biz News, @karaswisher, Recode, @rayroyreed, @nyggmatic, @scobleizer, @jamesloduca, @sameerpatel, @mattocko, @lisaabeyta, @anton1s, The Week, @brianstelter, @walterisaacson, @adambanksdotcom, @benmullin, @_ravensfan61, @sdkstl, @brianstelter, @paulgoldberger, @rafat, MediaPost, Variety, Associated Press, Hollywood Reporter, Fortune, Ad Age, Engadget, CNNMoney, Folio, CNNMoney, Jonathan D. Woods, NPR, HuffPost, Meredith Corporation MediaRoom, Financial Times, NBC News, Des Moines Register, New York Post, GeekWire, Bloomberg.com, Deadline, Recode, Forbes and Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media, more at Techmeme »
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
New York Media names Boris Kachka as book editor as it seeks to triple books coverage across properties with more coverage of audiobooks, genres, and authors — The best house, in my opinion, is a house where books are everywhere: not just on a single shelf in the living room …
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Vulture, Publishers Lunch and kottke.org
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sources: Julie Chen to step down from CBS' The Talk but will continue to host Big Brother after CEO Les Moonves' exit amid accusations of sexual misconduct — Julie Chen is stepping down from “The Talk” on CBS, one week after her husband Les Moonves left the CBS Corporation under pressure.
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@cnnbrk, The Daily Caller, The A.V. Club, Hollywood Reporter, @nymag, The Wrap, TV Insider, Hollywood Life, AOL, Mediaite, The Week and Mashable
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 …, @bradmossesq, @evan_rosenfeld, @politicalshort and Hit & Run
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Gawker's owner Bryan Goldberg plans to spend at least $5M in the first year of its relaunch, mostly on hiring editorial staff, some toward media acquisitions — The company is planning to hire “dozens” of writers and editors ahead of next year's relaunch, and is scouting other acquisitions
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@benmullin
Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:
Pandora releases a custom playlist for Premium on-demand users called The Drop, which features newly-released tracks based on listening history — If you ask Spotify users why they're loyal to the music service, chances are many of them will cite personalized new music playlists like Discover Weekly and New Release Radar.
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Pandora Blog, Digital Trends, CNET, RAIN News, The Verge, TechCrunch and Music Business Worldwide
Music Business Worldwide:
Leaked email to Dubai ad agency shows Spotify plans to launch across the Middle East and North Africa in November with a new regional headquarters in Dubai — Spotify's next major global move is coming soon. — According to a leaked email, the service plans to launch across the Middle East …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Getty Images partners with Amazon to provide images from its catalog of 200M digital pics for searches on the Echo Show and Echo Spot — On the heels of the Getty family regaining control of Getty Images, reportedly for about $3 billion, the company is announcing a move to expand use of its images to a wider set of eyeballs.
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PR Newswire, GeekWire, The Verge and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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 …
Output Producer, CA — 
China Markets Correspondent, Shanghai — 
Senior Assignment Editor, DC — 
Breaking News Editor, Tokyo — 
Senior Correspondent - Wealth, NY — 
Reporter - Ottawa Bureau — 
Local Government Reporter, IA — 
Research Director, CA — 
Immigration Enforcement Reporter — 
Presque Island Reporter, ME — 
Contributing Parks Ed. - SW, CA — 
AI Content Editor, WA — 
Legislative Reporter, TN — 
Editorial Assistant, Remote US — 
Elon Musk Reporter, NY or CA — 
Government & Politics Editor, WA — 
Business & GA Reporter. VT — 
Sports Reporter, WA — 
Energy Reporter, TX — 
Senior Reporter, SC — 
Trade & Climate Correspondent, DC — 
Reporter, WI — 
Political Newsletter Writer, CO — 
Jackson Reporter, MS — 
Music Editor, AZ — 
Breaking News Reporter, NV — 
Fearless Reporter/Producer, IA — 
Reporter II - Technology, Remote — 
Editor, Remote US — 
City Reporter, WA — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
Education & Budget Reporter, CA — 
Senior Writer/Editor, FL — 
Media Editor, Remote — 
