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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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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
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@andrewnelson, The Wrap, @lolaakinmade, Politico, FierceVideo, @rafat, @chriselliotts, @rafat, @rafat and Los Angeles Times
Margaret Harding McGill / Politico:
Source: Google has agreed to pay between $150M and $200M to resolve an FTC investigation into YouTube over alleged violations of federal privacy laws for kids — Google has agreed to pay between $150 and $200 million to resolve an FTC investigation into YouTube over alleged violations …
Styli Charalambous / Nieman Lab:
How South Africa's digital news startup the Daily Maverick, founded in 2009, designed its membership model to promote free, quality, independent content for all — On August 15, 2018, we announced to attendees of our Media Gathering event in Cape Town the start of our adventures into membership for Daily Maverick.
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@dailymaverick, @evanhamilton, @niemanlab, @centercoopmedia and @niemanlab
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
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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@martinsfp, @raju, @raju, @raju and @baekdal
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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
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@nytpolitics, @deggans, @_cingraham, @wesleylowery, @gregpinelo, @tomperriello, @wesleylowery, @paulkrugman, New York Post, CNN and Splinter
Jordyn Grzelewski / Plain Dealer:
The 150-year-old Vindicator in Youngstown, OH, closes Saturday, affecting about 140 full-time employees and surviving only as an edition of a nearby Ogden paper — YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — The Vindicator has been a part of Sam and Rochelle Miller's lives for as long as they can remember.
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@jgrzelewski, @bykaleahall, @samantha_m_p, @scenesallard, Plain Dealer, @sulliview and @sulliview
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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@moorehn, @readdanwrite and bookforum.com
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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@rasmus_kleis and @charliebeckett
Max Brantley / Arkansas Times:
Sources: GateHouse Media is planning to close two newspapers in Arkansas and outsource printing of a third, in Pine Bluff; closures planned by September 6 — Word arrives of still more reduction in newspapers in Arkansas, with reported closures coming in Stuttgart and Helena-West Helena …
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@kbui1, @pottstownnews, Stuttgart Daily Leader, The Rural Blog and ArkansasTimes
Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land:
Google is reorganizing how it presents publisher content policies and standardizing rules across AdSense, AdMob and Ad Manager; updates go live in September — The updates will go live in September and apply to all publishers using AdSense, AdMob and Ad Manager.
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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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@mattdpearce, @timemagunion and @kristinamonllos
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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