Mediagazer: Inside the Justice Department's press room on Friday, as reporters on the justice beat awaited the Mueller Report (Andrew McCormick/Columbia Journalism Review)

4:55 PM ET, March 25, 2019

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Andrew McCormick / Columbia Journalism Review:

Inside the Justice Department's press room on Friday, as reporters on the justice beat awaited the Mueller Report — When Sadie Gurman, a Justice Department correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, woke up on Friday, she had a nervous energy. Like many journalists …

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:

News networks interrupted their regular programming and reorganized their schedules to deliver coverage on the Mueller Report on Sunday — The “Mueller Report” has prompted a bevy of new reports from the nation's big TV-news outlets. — CBS News plotted a Monday primetime special to cover …

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:

Sources: Group Nine Media and Refinery29 are in talks to merge — - Group Nine Media and Refinery29 are in talks to merge, three people familiar with the situation say. — The digital media business has been rife with speculation about mergers between venture-funded digital media outlets …

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Jessica Davies / Digiday:

Business Insider's 13 international editions grew their ad revenue 40% YoY in 2019 and now generate 30% of its ad revenue outside the US — While many digital media publishers have been forced to pare down their international expansion strategies, Business Insider is moving full steam ahead.

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Steven Greenhouse / Nieman Reports:

A look at recent efforts to unionize digital newsrooms, as staff aim to lift the salary floor, improve basic benefits, and shield against industry volatility — Journalists are saying yes to unions to lift salary floors, win or improve basic benefits, and provide some cushion to the industry's volatility

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