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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Sources: Discovery to buy Golf Digest from Condé Nast for $30M; W and Brides remain for sale — Discovery is buying Golf Digest from Condé Nast for an estimated $30 million, expanding its reach beyond its golf-streaming sweet spot, according to sources close to the situation.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Despite a plunge in viewership of US broadcast and cable networks, eMarketer expects overall advance commitments for TV ads to rise 2.4% YoY to $21.25B in 2019 — Analysis: Prognosticators keep calling for TV's demise. Madison Avenue has a different view.
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Bryan Carmody says SF police raided his home and office instead of targeting other media because he is a freelancer; lawyer: police should have used a subpoena — Bryan Carmody, a freelance reporter in San Francisco, awoke Friday to the sounds of someone trying to break into his house.
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Laura Waxmann / The San Francisco Examiner:
Police and FBI raided the home and office of journalist Bryan Carmody, handcuffing him, in a probe into a leaked police report about a public defender's death
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Reuters:
How the Taliban's media operation gets its message out quickly through social channels and other avenues, asking fighters to double as reporters — KABUL (Reuters) - Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban's chief spokesman and editor-in-chief of the insurgent group's daily news bulletin …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
New media ventures like Vox are struggling while old media, like NYT, is flourishing because the only disruption in media happened in distribution, not content — KEY POINTS — Old media companies such as Disney and The New York Times have flourished in recent years while new media ventures …
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@jasonabbruzzese, @rafat and @chrisroper
Karla Adam / Washington Post:
Sweden reopens rape case against WikiLeaks' Julian Assange after discontinuing the investigation in 2017, seeks extradition — LONDON — Swedish prosecutors are reopening an investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. — Speaking Monday at a news conference …
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DW.COM:
Turkish journalist Yavuz Selim Demirag, an outspoken critic of President Erdogan, was beaten by assailants with baseball bats after a TV appearance — Yavuz Selim Demirag has been an outspoken critic of President Erdogan. He was set on by assailants with baseball bats in what journalists say is a sign of shrinking press freedom.
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Turkey Purge, Hürriyet Daily News, @humeyra_pamuk and globalnews.ca
BBC:
ITV suspends recording and broadcasting of The Jeremy Kyle show after a guest died shortly after filming, and is conducting a review into the episode — ITV has suspended The Jeremy Kyle show after a guest died shortly after filming, and is conducting a review into the episode “given the seriousness of this event”.
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London Evening Standard, Daily Express, CNN, @danwhite1972, mirror, The Guardian and The Independent
Politico:
Analysis: from Jan. 1 to Apr. 30, Sanders, Biden, Harris, and Warren accounted for more than half the Democratic primary field's traditional news media mentions — Newspaper headlines and social media mentions are concentrated on just a handful of the 21 contenders for president.
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@markharrisnyc, @tvietor08 and @kaivanshroff
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
In an era of information warfare, few newsrooms are prepared to train their reporters on how to keep themselves and their sources safe in cyberspace — In 1970, the Canadian cultural theorist Marshall McLuhan famously predicted that World War III, when it comes, will be …
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@cjr, @usprojectcjr, @cjr and @jafurtado
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian streaming service Hotstar, now owned by Disney, claims it set a global record by drawing 18M+ concurrent viewers for the IPL cricket final — Indian video streaming giant Hotstar, owned by Disney, today set a new global benchmark for the number of people an OTT service can draw to a live event.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
As social media makes talking to reporters riskier, journalists consider ways of making talking to sources less “extractive” by setting expectations and more — “Extractive” is a tough word. “Extractive” evokes strip mining and mountaintop removal, age-old resources being burned for short-lived gains.
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