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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Meredith has sold the Sports Illustrated IP rights to Authentic Brands for $110M, will pay a licensing fee to run editorial operations for at least two years — Sports Illustrated over the decades has chronicled stellar match-ups, blow-outs, squeakers, sudden deaths and photo finishes.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Meredith Corp, which put Time, Fortune, Money, and Sports Illustrated up for sale to focus on lifestyle and celebrity magazines — Meredith tries to navigate a collapsing business by dropping news-driven prestige titles in favor of lifestyle and celebrity magazines like Happy Paws and People
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@wsj, @niemanreports and Longreads
Variety:
Netflix says it would rethink its “entire investment in Georgia”, where film production costs are low, if the state's attack on abortion rights becomes law — Many of Hollywood's most powerful content companies have maintained a deafening silence on the raging abortion legislation …
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Li Jin / Andreessen Horowitz:
The state of the podcasting industry in 2019, including key trends and monetization strategies of audio apps in China — In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen …
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Nieman Lab, @definefinancial and @trengriffin
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Four German publishing groups, Axel Springer, Funke Mediengruppe, RTL, and Gruner+Jahr, will sell their combined ad inventory in an effort to combat Big Tech — Four big German publishing groups are collaborating in order to fight the market power of tech platforms.
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World News Publishing Focus … and @raju
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
CNN told staff it's preparing to potentially cut dozens of employees at its London-based news operation; CNN International will produce less material in London — Surprise announcement likely to result in dozens of employees losing their jobs — CNN is preparing to make substantial cuts …
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@moorehn
Yelena Dzhanova / New York Magazine:
Naomi Wolf cites a known internet hoaxer after BBC Radio's Matthew Sweet uncovers a serious flaw in her forthcoming book, Outrages — In the pantheon of nightmares, somewhere between “falling into an endless pit” and “back at high school but naked” is “going on national radio and learning …
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BBC Sounds, The Guardian, @drmatthewsweet, @newscloset, @rdube, @debaucherie, @w_s_taylor, Sydney Morning Herald, @vegasanonymous, @drmatthewsweet, Bookseller News, @drbeaubeaumont, @nymag, @andrewbakaj, @mfwestphal, @danieltilles1, @cbsweeney, @naomirwolf, @kecbibliogal, @arunindy, @samgrinsell, @selzero, Brinkwire, @alecmuffett, The Guardian, bookforum.com and Crikey
Glenn Greenwald / Washington Post:
By indicting Assange and arguing the First Amendment only applies to designated journalists, the Trump admin created a blueprint for criminalizing journalism — The First Amendment is meaningless if it only protects people the government recognizes as journalists
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@howardkurtz, @ggreenwald, @f_obermaier, @ggreenwald, @trevortimm and @royeidelson
Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Questions linger about the police raid on San Francisco freelancer Bryan Carmody, and a full, independent investigation is needed — San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott finally apologized late last week for his police department's outrageous raid of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody's home.
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Reason, @trevortimm and @jayrosen_nyu
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Memo: TruTV lays off programming and marketing staff as it is consolidated with WarnerMedia's TBS and TNT; source: less than 50 are affected — TruTV has laid off most of its programming and marketing staffers as oversight of the WarnerMedia cabler is consolidated into the broader Turner entertainment group.
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Multichannel News, The Wrap and Deadline
Matthew Wall / BBC:
Since GDPR, Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it has launched 19 cross-border investigations, 11 of which focus on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram — Social media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp have been the subject of most data investigations in the Republic …
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MediaPost, Fortune, @jason_kint, Data Protection Commission, Telecompaper and Axios, more at Techmeme »
Maria Danilova / Columbia Journalism Review:
How independent Russian journalists use online platforms such as YouTube, Meduza, and the Insider to report on problems the government doesn't want exposed — On March 25, 2018, a massive fire tore through a busy four-story shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo.
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@cpj_eurasia and @cjr
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