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ThinkProgress, an editorially independent project of the think tank Center for American Progress, ends operations on Friday; a dozen staffers will be laid off — A search had been underway for a new publisher. But none was found. — ThinkProgress, the influential news site that rose …
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Kamaron Leach / Bloomberg:
Meredith stocks fell 28% Thursday after it issued its forecast for the FY starting in July, for which it predicted $675M adjusted earnings due to merger pains — - Time Inc. acquisition has been more difficult than expected — The earnings Meredith was expecting ‘just...poof! disappeared’
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Dylan Byers / NBC News:
Sources: Facebook's contracts with publishers for its News Tab will run around three years; Facebook is offering publishers $2M to $2.5M/year to license content — Moving the Market: Facebook's plan to offer news publishers millions of dollars a year for their content is being met …
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Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Bloomberg corrects original story about Labor Department staffer who briefly quit after Bloomberg mistakenly implied he once shared anti-Semitic Facebook posts — Bloomberg Law has changed their headline for a now-famous story about a Trump Labor aide who resigned over an old Facebook post.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Crunchyroll, Otter Media's anime streaming-service, has acquired a majority stake in Viz Media Europe, a European distributor and manga publisher — Crunchyroll, the anime streaming-service division of WarnerMedia's Otter Media, entered into a pact to become the majority owner of Viz Media Europe …
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Data & Society:
Report outlines techniques used by media manipulators that hide sources of false information to promote media uptake, such as evidence collages and leak forgery — Online media manipulators often use specific techniques to hide the source of the false and problematic information they circulate.
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@shannimcg, @shannimcg, @shannimcg, @shannimcg, @craignewmark and American Press Institute
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Internal memo from 85 NPR staffers shows backlash against news exec Nancy Barnes after she publicly criticized NPR's race relations coverage; Barnes apologized — Top news executive Nancy Barnes said publicly that NPR's coverage of race relations is ‘more lacking than we realized’
Kali Hays / WWD:
British quarterly fashion magazine The Face, which relaunched its website in April, is now relaunching a print edition fifteen years after it was shut down — Don't expect a replay of some of the magazine's iconic moments. The Face is new and it means business.
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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Trump Administration has offered up to £75K for an organization to take “influential” UK journalists on a tour of US farms to improve image of US agriculture — The US government wants to influence the way British media portrays American meat products, BuzzFeed News has learned.
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@miriamelder, @markdistef, @jamesrbuk, @jayrayner1, The Week and The Guardian
Melynda Fuller / MediaPost:
Diane Solway, formerly a features and culture director at W Magazine, is named editor-in-chief at Surface Media, which is owned by Future Media Group — Diane Solway is now Surface Media's EIC, effective today, Marc Lotenberg, CEO of Future Media Group, announced.
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
Report: per RIAA, revenues from streaming up 26% YoY to $4.3B in H1 2019, accounting for ~80% of music industry's overall revenue; paid subscriptions grew 31% — Although physical sales are also on the up-and-up — More people are streaming music through services like Apple Music and Spotify …
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Alison Flood / The Guardian:
Amazon blames a “technical error” for shipping ~800 embargoed copies of Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale a week early, angering indie booksellers — Strict measures meant to keep all details of The Testaments confidential until publication have fallen through for some US readers
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