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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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Quint Forgey / Politico:
WH Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham attacks WaPo via an op-ed and tweets, leveling her harshest critiques off camera, a departure from predecessors' approach — Stephanie Grisham flashed signs this week of how she'll serve as Donald Trump's defender-in-chief, firing off a series …
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Jessica Toonkel / The Information:
Sources: Spotify hires former CBS News President David Rhodes as a consultant to help expand into news and hires an executive from Facebook to oversee sports — Spotify has tapped former CBS News President David Rhodes as a consultant to help drive an expansion into news programming, say people familiar with the situation.
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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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Washington Post:
Google says it will no longer accept ads for “unproven or experimental medical techniques,” including most stem cell therapy, cellular therapy, and gene therapy — “Untested, deceptive treatments” can endanger consumers, Internet giant says. — Responding to ubiquitous online marketing …
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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Amanda Darrach / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Bahamian news outlets are covering the devastation left by Hurricane Dorian, filtering for misinformation and worrying about staff in hard-hit areas — The force of the wind was so great, it stripped bark from the trees. The Albury Donnies, a fleet of 18 boats that have ferried children to school …
Anthony Crupi / Ad Age:
Nielsen: Thursday's NFL kickoff game drew a three-year ratings high for NBC, averaging 22M viewers; NBC streaming added another 627K viewers — Packers-Bears grudge match helps NBC scare up its biggest opening night since 2016 — Thursday night's NFL Kickoff Game wasn't exactly one for the ages …
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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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Angela Lashbrook / onezero.medium.com:
Amazon has done little to improve Goodreads, which has basically remained a list-making app with design flaws and features that don't help avid readers — Despite Amazon's innovation elsewhere, Goodreads has stagnated for 12 years, and its problems are endless
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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’
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
In a white paper, seven academics propose offering all taxpayers a $50 write-off to donate to a favorite news outlet, be it print, broadcast, or digital-only — Here is a novel idea for saving serious journalism: Give every adult American $50, via an income tax checkoff, to donate to a favorite news outlet.
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