Mediagazer: A look at why all but two of San Francisco Magazine's editorial staffers quit last week, as parent company Modern Luxury cuts back newsroom resources (Andrew McCormick/Columbia Journalism Review)

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Andrew McCormick / Columbia Journalism Review:

A look at why all but two of San Francisco Magazine's editorial staffers quit last week, as parent company Modern Luxury cuts back newsroom resources — The November issue of San Francisco magazine will feature a 6,000-word true crime piece about a kidnapping in Mountain View, California …

Jon Levine / The Wrap:

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

UK study: poorer people consume less news than the wealthy and are less likely to go directly to news sites; no brand among 32 had significantly more poor users — News is more unevenly distributed in the UK than income is, according to new research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Jordan Green / HuffPost:

How Big League Politics, owned by political operative Reilly O'Neal, fueled tensions over an NC Confederate statue and fed a Charlottesville conspiracy theory — Patrick Howley's Big League Politics is for people who find Breitbart too reasonable. And it's just getting started.

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Ezra Klein / Vox:

Study: of 1,220 Twitter users, Republicans who followed a liberal Twitter bot became substantially more conservative; conservative bots didn't change Democrats — Echo chambers aren't what's polarizing America. — There's a simple story for how the media is driving political polarization.

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Michael McGowan / The Guardian:

Australian actor Geoffrey Rush testifies on first day of two-week defamation trial against Murdoch-owned Daily Telegraph, over stories alleging misconduct — Oscar-winning Australian actor says front-page story published by Murdoch-owned Nationwide News made him sick to his stomach

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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:

Brazilian media outlets owned by a far-right billionaire are being used to intimidate journalists critical of the leading presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro — The highly likely ascension to power of far-right extremist Jair Bolsonaro is already unleashing a climate in which journalists …

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