Mediagazer: Profile of Des Moines Register, renowned for its Iowa caucuses coverage and editorial endorsements during primaries, as it has coped with a shrinking newsroom (Tim Alberta/Politico)

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Seth J. Frantzman / Jerusalem Post:

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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:

The unusual relationship between the US President and NY Times photographer Doug Mills, whom Trump has called “my genius photographer” — Earlier in his administration, as Donald Trump launched attack after attack on the mainstream media, a series of newspaper photographs caught his attention, in a good way.

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Eric Berger / Columbia Journalism Review:

As more newspapers close their own printing plants and outsource to a central location, legacy printing-press installers reflect on a declining profession — When Joel Birket was a child, his family moved to new cities for a year at a time so his father, William, could install printing presses …

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Zack Stanton / Politico:

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Tim Alberta / Politico:

Profile of Des Moines Register, renowned for its Iowa caucuses coverage and editorial endorsements during primaries, as it has coped with a shrinking newsroom — The great media disruption comes for the Des Moines Register. — Tim Alberta is chief political correspondent at Politico Magazine.

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Josh Wood / Nieman Lab:

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang's journalism ideas: federal government-funded journalists, a $1B Local Journalism Fund, and a Media Responsibility Task Force — If you haven't heard of Andrew Yang, you're not alone, but your crowd is thinning out. The entrepreneur-turned-politician …

Bloomberg:

Profile of Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective, an LLC that is part charity and part VC firm, and owns the majority stake in The Atlantic — In the seven years since the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, his 55-year-old widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, has become one of the most high-profile philanthropists in the world.

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Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:

Q&A with BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti on fake news, recent layoffs, employees forming a union, plans to make the company profitable, and more — “Utopia” is the name of the room that BuzzFeed Chief Executive Jonah Peretti uses as his L.A. office, but the last few months have been anything but that.

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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:

How the murder of the journalist Ján Kuciak, and the biggest protests in decades that followed it, helped elect Slovakia's liberal, pro-press president — In February 2018, Beata Balogová—the editor of SME, Slovakia's biggest independent daily—was in Hungary, just across the southern border.

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Danielle Abril / Fortune:

Interview with the CEO of Verizon Media, which generated $1.8B in revenue in Q1, down 7.2% YoY, on integrating commerce, investing in its ad platform, and more — Guru Gowrappan has spent the seven months charting a new course for Verizon Media, the struggling digital media business owned by telecom giant Verizon.

Roberto Torres / Technical.ly Philly:

DocumentCloud scaled up its servers five-fold for the Mueller report release, but it was barely enough; 100+ reporters were uploading the 448-page doc at once — One of the most crucial documents in modern political history— special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the 2016 presidential election …

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Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:

The National Press Club partners with restaurants for “Night Out for Austin Tice” on May 2, to raise the reward for information that helps free the journalist — U.S. journalist Austin Tice was kidnapped in Syria in 2012. His fate remains mysterious — though recently …

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