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New York Post:
Sources: GateHouse Media, owned by Fortress Investment Group, is nearing a deal to buy Gannett, which would create the biggest newspaper chain in the US — GateHouse Media and its publicly traded publisher New Media Investment Group is deep in talks to buy USA Today owner Gannett …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Source: BuzzFeed has agreed to voluntarily recognize the BuzzFeed News union, following months of negotiations and a walkout by staffers last month — - Employees had staged walkout in June to pressure company — Agreement is part of wave of unioning at digital-media sites
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David Marchese / New York Times:
Interview with Graydon Carter, on claims he cut accusations by women from a 2003 Epstein profile: “I didn't invent the system. I just lived by the system” — “I didn't invent the system. I just lived by the system.” — Graydon Carter on Vanity Fair, Jeffrey Epstein and an editor's power.
Charlie Deitch / Pittsburgh Current:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to phase out print operations and become digital only; from September 30, the print version will only run Thursday, Friday, Sunday — The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will eliminate its entire print product in a move to become an all-digital publication, according to a letter obtained by the Current.
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@jsilverinpgh, @thesmithminute, @charliedee71, @rob_rogers and @robcurley
Matthew Moore / The Times & The Sunday Times:
Head of BBC tells MPs they “could decide BBC is a subscription service” once the compulsory license fee system expires in 2027, but says it's the “wrong model” — The BBC could switch away from the licence fee to a Netflix-style voluntary subscription model, the director-general acknowledged yesterday.
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@jayrosen_nyu and @emilybell
Todd Spangler / Variety:
BuzzFeed to stage its first live event, a free, invite-only, unsponsored show with musicians and influencers on July 25 in NYC, plans ticketed events later — BuzzFeed is going IRL by staging its first live event — a variety-style show in New York it's billing as an in-real-life version of scrolling through your social feed.
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@alicetiara, @waxpancake and Tubefilter
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
A profile of Andy Ngo, whose assault by antifa elevated his career seeking violence and victimization in response to corporate demand for dramatic video — Late last month, the conservative media personality Andy Ngo sent me a video made by Popular Mobilization, a group of anti-fascists …
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@davidgross_man, @alex_zee, @bernstein and @markdistef
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Zefr sells RightsID and ChannelID, its video rights-management technologies, to Vobile in a deal estimated at $90M — Vobile Group, a video protection and measurement company, announced a deal to acquire Zefr's RightsID copyright-management and ChannelID YouTube channel-management businesses for about $90 million.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Tubefilter and Los Angeles Business Journal
Madeline Peltz / Newsweek:
A researcher who watched Tucker Carlson each weeknight for two years says society should not ignore his vitriol against Ilhan Omar just because it is routine — Tucker Carlson raced to the defense of President Donald Trump and his racist tweets against “the Squad” this week …
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@peltzmadeline, @ryp__, @mattgertz and @danmartintalks
Tim Ingham / Rolling Stone:
A look at 5 initiatives Spotify has abandoned: original video content, its hateful conduct policy, Spotify apps, direct music distribution, and Spotify Running — While it's common for tech companies to test out new ideas in public, the streaming giant has done so more than most
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Time Magazine to run a sponsored cover for its July 29 issue, the third time since 2014 — Time magazine is running a sponsored cover on the issue dated July 29 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, marking a rare commercial intrusion onto a cover of the venerable magazine.
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@mgkatz036
Megan Cassidy / San Francisco Chronicle:
A San Francisco judge quashes warrant used by SFPD to conduct surveillance on journalist Bryan Carmody's phone, essentially barring the use of evidence obtained — A judge on Thursday quashed a search warrant used by San Francisco police to conduct surveillance on a journalist's phone …
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