Mediagazer: The Guardian launches an investigative series, Toxic America, and seeks $150K in donations to increase its coverage of toxic chemicals in 2019 (Max Willens/Digiday)

3:50 PM ET, May 22, 2019

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Max Willens / Digiday:

The Guardian launches an investigative series, Toxic America, and seeks $150K in donations to increase its coverage of toxic chemicals in 2019 — The Guardian has discovered that American readers are willing donors, and the news publisher hopes that a bigger focus on investigations …

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Garett Sloane / Ad Age:

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James Walker / Press Gazette:

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Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:

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The Irish Times:

The Times Ireland announces it will cease publication of its print edition and cut staff from 20 to 3 for continued work on digital products — Irish print edition of UK newspaper to cease publication with small number to continue working on digital product

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James McAuley / Washington Post:

Prominent French journalist summoned by police for reporting on corruption in Macron's government, triggering further concerns about press freedoms in France — PARIS — French police summoned a senior correspondent from France's Le Monde newspaper for questioning following a series …

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Michael Novinson / CRN:

Google says it's experiencing indexing issues that may cause stale search results; users searching for fresh news from sites including NYT or WSJ get no results — The bug has prevented new content from being indexed in Google search results, and is most obvious when using the ‘past hour’ search filter.

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Andrew R. Chow / TIME:

Georgia hosted 455 film and TV productions in 2018, but some workers fear a loss of jobs after some directors pull projects to protest an anti-abortion bill — This week, the director Reed Morano was supposed to fly to Georgia to scout locations for a new show for Amazon Studios called The Power.

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The Guardian:

After backlash, Google to require abortion services advertisers in the US, UK, and Ireland to declare in their ads whether or not they provide abortions — Announcement comes after Guardian revealed Google gave $150,000 in free ads to opaque anti-abortion group

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New Jersey Herald:

The New Jersey Herald, which has operated in North Jersey since 1829, is being sold to GateHouse Media — NEWTON - The New Jersey Herald, in operation since 1829, is being sold to GateHouse Media. — In announcing the pending sale to Herald staff Thursday morning, Ralph Oakley …

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Joel Mathis / KLC Journal:
Case study of dwindling newspapers in Kansas: interviews with leaders at McClatchy, Ogden, and GateHouse, in which GateHouse's CEO denies its model is predatory

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