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Lauren Hirsch / CNBC:
Activist firm Elliott Management to buy Barnes & Noble for ~$683M including debt; in the past five years, B&N has lost more than $1 billion in market value — KEY POINTS — Activist firm Elliott Management announced Friday it plans to acquire bookseller Barnes & Noble for roughly $683 million, including debt.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with The Atlantic's Adrienne LaFrance and Jeffrey Goldberg on hiring and promoting women; Goldberg says print cover writers are almost exclusively white men — It's not a shocker that a lot has changed at The Atlantic since it was founded all the way back in 1857.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: WarnerMedia abandons plan for a three-tiered streaming service, will likely package HBO, Cinemax, and the Warner Bros. library together for $16-$17/mo — New package is expected to include HBO, Cinemax and Warner Bros. content for barely more than HBO's current streaming service
Jacob Granger / Journalism.co.uk:
Study of 212 leading news organizations in US and Europe finds 69% of newspapers operate some form of online pay model, up just 5.5% in two years — RISJ report found that 69 per cent of US and European newspapers use some form of paywall - but that figure has only risen by 5.5 per cent in two years
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Meredith's Entertainment Weekly is going to a monthly print schedule and gets a new EIC, J.D. Heyman, replacing Henry Goldblatt; July 5 is last weekly edition — The frequency change takes effect in August. — Entertainment Weekly will no longer be a weekly magazine starting in August …
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Cindy Vanegas-Gesaule, BuzzFeed News head of programming, adds oversight of film and TV projects to her role, replacing Lauren Dolgen, who left BuzzFeed in May — Cindy Vanegas-Gesaule is adding oversight of film and TV projects to her existing role as head of programming for BuzzFeed News.
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Hundreds of Vox Media workers stage a one-day walkout to pressure management to sign a union contract; an editor says SBNation won't cover the NBA finals Game 3 — - Employees aren't writing or editing stories on Thursday — ‘This was a hard decision,’ SBNation editor says on Twitter
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Del Harvey / Twitter:
Twitter simplifies the language for its rules and reorganizes them into three high-level categories: safety, privacy, and authenticity — Our rules exist to help keep everyone using Twitter safe and ensure they can participate freely in the public conversation.
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David Chrisinger / New York Times:
A look back at the reporting of Ernie Pyle and how the beaches of Normandy changed the way America's most famous war correspondent reported what he saw — Most of the men in the first wave never stood a chance. In the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, thousands of American soldiers crawled …
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Matthew Kassel / Columbia Journalism Review:
Some journalists are returning to their hometowns to work, citing the benefits of meaningful work, strong emotional connections, and trust from sources — It's quite possible that Caitlin Dewey owes her career in journalism to The Buffalo News. She grew up in the suburban town of Wheatfield …
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Christopher Tolve / The Drum:
Cybersecurity company Cheq estimates ad fraud at $23B in 2019; World Federation of Advertisers estimates 30% of ads are unseen by customers — Global ad fraud is predicted to cost an unprecedented $23bn this year and could reach $30bn including indirect economic and social costs …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
To better compete with TikTok, Instagram adds song lyrics for Stories using the Music sticker — Lip-syncing jumpstarted TikTok's rise to the center of teen culture, arguably displacing Instagram . Now the Facebook-owned app is striking back with a new feature that lets you displays lyrics …
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