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Los Angeles Times:
Slate Editor-in-Chief Julia Turner is leaving to become deputy managing editor responsible for arts and entertainment coverage at The Los Angeles Times — The Los Angeles Times named Julia Turner its deputy managing editor responsible for Arts and Entertainment coverage.
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tronc, the parent company of the Chicago Tribune and other daily newspapers, is changing its name back to Tribune Publishing; stock symbol changes to TPCO — A sign marks the Chicago Tribune's offices at One Prudential Plaza on June 12, 2018, in Chicago. The newspaper's parent company …
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Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
EU approves guidelines whereby 30% of all content carried on streaming services must be European with strict rules on ads and product placement in kids' content — Under the new guidelines, 30 percent of all content carried on streaming services in Europe will have to come from the region.
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Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Ken Ward Jr., a veteran reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail and the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia, gets a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation — Your support makes that possible — subscribe today — Your support makes that possible — subscribe today
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Study finds that of the 700K+ Twitter accounts that linked to 600+ sites spreading misinformation in 2016, more than 80% are still active and many are bots — Twitter is still rife with “fake news” a month out from the 2018 midterms, with more than 80 percent of the accounts …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
CNN launches CNN Business, a site with a focus on how tech affects other business sectors, and opens a San Francisco bureau as it shuts down CNNMoney — CNN is taking the wraps off its new business site, CNN Business, to reflect an increased emphasis on Silicon Valley.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
A look at NYT's Wirecutter Money, which focuses on services, not products, and aims at the same age group that dominates Wirecutter's audience: millennials — Imagine a world in which Donald Trump is no longer President. — No, really. Okay, if that concept's beyond your immediate comprehension …
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Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
With its investigation of Trump's wealth, the NYT acknowledged its past role in glorifying Trump's negotiating skills and found the proof for what some assumed — We live at a time when journalism can land with great force. The epic investigation published Tuesday by The New York Times …
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Melina Delkic / New York Times:
How three New York Times reporters spent over a year combing through 100K+ documents and interviewing people to uncover the source of Trump's wealth
How three New York Times reporters spent over a year combing through 100K+ documents and interviewing people to uncover the source of Trump's wealth
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Trey Williams / The Wrap:
CEO of the owner of MoviePass says the company raised $65M in September and that subscribers are going to less than one movie a month on average — TheGrill 2018: “We've been the underdog since August 15 of last year... we're still here, and we're not going anywhere," Helios & Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth says
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Sinéad Baker / Business Insider:
Wikipedia initially rejected a page for scientist Donna Strickland in May due to lack of “significant coverage”, then built a page after she won a Nobel Prize — - Dr. Donna Strickland jointly won the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday, but she did not have a Wikipedia page until then.
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Daniel Frankel / Multichannel News:
Cheddar is using Synacor and its Cloud ID platform to give free access to viewers via YouTube TV and Hulu with Live TV — Buffalo tech vendor says its cloud-based identity management tool is being use by digital news platform for vMVPD authentication — Buffalo, NY-based pay TV software …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Unilad parent company goes into administration with £6M+ in debt; Linton Capital, RocketSports have made a £10M offer to acquire the publisher with some layoffs — Hundreds of jobs at risk with parent company owing £6m and administration looming
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