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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Disney sells its 80% stake in YES Network to Amazon, the Yankees, and Sinclair, valuing the network that airs the NY Yankees and other local sports at ~$3.5B — KEY POINTS — Disney sold its stake in the YES Network to an investor group that includes Amazon, the company announced Thursday.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: Disney has laid off National Geographic workers, with one source saying as many as 80 are affected; US editions of Nat Geo Traveler to stop publication — Walt Disney has laid off employees of the National Geographic unit it acquired from the former 21st Century Fox …
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@andrewnelson, Politico, @chriselliotts, @rafat, @rafat, @rafat and Los Angeles Times
Reid Nakamura / The Wrap:
Source: Disney has laid off nearly 60 employees in its home entertainment and TV distribution divisions, affecting both Disney and former Fox employees — Consolidation at Disney is moving forward as the company has handed out pink slips to nearly 60 more employees, TheWrap has learned.
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Variety and Hollywood Reporter
Charles Hutzler / Wall Street Journal:
China declines to renew a WSJ reporter's press credentials, effectively forcing him to leave the country, following a June article on President Xi's family — Chun Han Wong, a Singaporean national, has worked in Beijing for the Journal since 2014 — BEIJING—A reporter for The Wall Street Journal …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vice Media trimmed about 15 jobs at cable channel Viceland, as it merges Vice News and Viceland, shifting away from lifestyle and entertainment content — Company is merging Vice News and Viceland, shifting its programming away from lifestyle and entertainment content
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@readdanwrite, @moorehn and bookforum.com
Hannah Gais / Splinter:
Leaked emails show how former Daily Caller staffer Jonah Bennett and think tank staffer John Elliott pushed white nationalist ideas into conservative media — Conservative institutions in the Donald Trump era have often sought to portray themselves as shocked and appalled by the so-called “alt-right.”
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Shira Tarlo / Salon:
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell retracted a thinly sourced report alleging Russian oligarchs co-signed loans for Trump; Trump then blasted O'Donnell on Twitter — O'Donnell has retracted a thinly-sourced report alleging that Trump obtained loans co-signed by Russian oligarchs
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@lawrence, @realdonaldtrump, Fox News, Washington Post, @realdonaldtrump, Poynter, @erictrump, @ggreenwald, @jayrosen_nyu, @digiphile, @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy, CNN, The Hill, MSNBC, Mediaite and Law & Crime
Tobias Buck / Financial Times:
Bertelsmann head criticizes France's new tax on digital companies with €750M in annual revenue for its vagueness in defining what constitutes digital revenue — The boss of German media group Bertelsmann has hit out at France's new tax on digital companies, warning that the measure …
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@charliebeckett
Esther Kezia Thorpe / What's New in Publishing:
The New York Times puts up a hard registration wall, requiring visitors to log in or create a free account to read articles — US newspaper The New York Times has become the latest publisher to put up a hard registration wall, following extensive registration and log-on tests last month.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
After complaints for omitting references to race in an article on Tea Party history, NYT updated story with an ineffective sentence that provided little remedy
After complaints for omitting references to race in an article on Tea Party history, NYT updated story with an ineffective sentence that provided little remedy
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@nytpolitics, @deggans, @_cingraham, @wesleylowery, @gregpinelo, @tomperriello, @wesleylowery, @paulkrugman, New York Post, CNN and Splinter
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed News uncovers accounts on Twitter and Pinterest, now removed, devoted to posting creepy screengrabs of high-profile female TV journalists in the UK — In response to questions from BuzzFeed News, Twitter said the accounts sexually objectified women “without their consent”, while Pinterest called them “gross” and apologised.
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@skysarahjane
Greg Dool / Folio:
Folio:'s annual salary survey finds female editors-in-chief and managing editors earned $0.83-$0.86 for every dollar earned by their male counterparts — Against a backdrop of sustained industry instability, editorial salaries have remained relatively consistent year-over-year …
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American Press Institute
Max Willens / Digiday:
Union contracts at times fail to address new forms of work, such as when social media staff are labeled “editorial” and barred from branded content distribution — The rise of unionization in digital media is normally framed in one of two extreme ways: as an innovation-killing millstone …
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@kristinamonllos, @timemagunion and @mattdpearce
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
YouTube removed, then reinstated a channel for Martin Sellner, a European white nationalist, and a channel for a British nationalist called The Iconoclast — The video platform said it was a “mistake” to remove the channels of Martin Sellner and another far right personality known as The Iconoclast, but wouldn't explain what happened.
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