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Seth J. Frantzman / Jerusalem Post:
NYT says it published a cartoon with antisemitic tropes in its international print edition on Thursday due to “an error of judgment” — New York Times admits cartoon had antisemitic tropes and says it was an error of judgement to publish. — The New York Times International Edition ran …
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NYT apologizes, says it published the antisemitic cartoon because of a faulty process when an editor working without adequate oversight decided to include it — We apologize for the anti-Semitic cartoon we published. Here's our statement. pic.twitter.com/nifZahutpO
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Zack Stanton / Politico:
Interview with Kate Ward, Bustle Digital Group's departing EIC, on growing a large media organization while keeping aspects of startup culture and more — Kate Ward, editor-in-chief of Bustle Digital Group, on what is worth keeping — and getting rid of — as a company grows.
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.
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.
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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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 …
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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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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Nathan McAlone / INSIDER:
MoviePass rival Sinemia files for bankruptcy, says it can't cover the legal costs of dealing with multiple pending lawsuits and FTC's investigation against it — - The MoviePass competitor Sinemia filed for bankruptcy in Delaware and said it was shutting down US operations.