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New York Times:
Vox Media has agreed to acquire New York Media, publisher of New York magazine and websites The Cut, Grub Street, Intelligencer, The Strategist, and Vulture — After more than 50 years of chronicling the highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant and despicable characters of the city whose name it took, New York Magazine has a new owner.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
NYT's Mark Thompson warns “print-centric” UK newspapers face mass closures and says it is a myth to blame Facebook and Google for news industry's difficulties — New York Times chief executive Mark Thompson has warned UK newspapers are still too “print-centric” and face mass closures without drastic changes in policy.
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Nieman Lab and @vwpickard
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T's new COO John Stankey says AT&T doesn't plan on selling DirecTV and he will continue as WarnerMedia CEO — John Stankey says AT&T doesn't plan to sell DirecTV; company has done portfolio reviews of satellite provider and other assets — AT&T Inc. T .12% 's chief operating officer defended …
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NBC News, New York Post, @jbflint, @shalini, @richlightshed, @jbflint, Light Reading, The Wrap and FierceVideo
Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Leaked TikTok content moderation guidelines reveal how it censors videos mentioning Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or Falun Gong — Leak spells out how social media app advances China's foreign policy aims — TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network …
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@bjoernsta, @alexhern, Boing Boing, Foreign Policy, Wired, Business Insider, @alexhern, @firstdraftnews, @profcarroll, The Verge, @alexhern, @marklittlenews, Mashable, @yaqiu, @neerajka, @profcarroll and Reason, more at Techmeme »
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
How The News Reporter of Columbus County, a small-town NC newspaper, increased its circulation and subscription revenue by building a digital-first workflow — Poynter and API teamed up this week to take a deeper look at what's working in local news. Here, you can read how The News Reporter grew …
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Better News, @kristenhare, @cislmunc, @cislmunc, The Rural Blog, @travis5mith, @michaelbarthel and @pennyriordan1
Laura Kayali / Politico:
Google refuses to pay publishers in France, first to apply EU's copyright law, will only show headlines and thumbnails, unless publisher asks to add previews — Google will not pay press publishers in France to display their content and will instead change the way articles appear in search results …
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
WaPo's Arc strikes a deal with BP, its first non-media customer, to publish articles and videos across 250 internal websites, newsletters, and future mobile app — - Post says Arc revenue will rival subscriptions and advertising — Jeff Bezos has helped the Post recruit and retain engineers
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@chrismunns, @gerryfsmith and @gerryfsmith
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Treating individual donors and major givers alike, Mother Jones, which makes 55% of budget from reader donations, is set to raise $25M in its first big campaign — This is a story of how to turn 47 percent into $25 million. — In 2012 — eons ago in the speed of news cycles these days …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Discovery partners with Amazon to launch Food Network Kitchen, a $6.99/month streaming service that lets subscribers attend up to 25 live cooking classes a week — Food Network Kitchen will let users take classes with celebrity chefs, order ingredients through food-delivery services
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Variety, The Wrap, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, The Streamable, @benmullin and @alexweprin
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Al Franken to return to radio with a weekly, one-hour interview show on SiriusXM with figures from politics, entertainment and other fields — Bill Maher is taking heat for posting a photo in reference to Al Franken pretending to grope Leeann Tweeden. Veuer's Sam Berman has the full story.
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@mlcalderone and @mlcalderone
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook's content moderation policies are difficult to apply given the breadth of cases, and poor communication between contractors and FB cripples the system — When actor Burt Reynolds died last September, fans across Instagram and Facebook paid tribute to him by posting his 1972 Cosmopolitan magazine centerfold.
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@miriamelder, The Verge and @evelyndouek
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap:
Comscore settles with SEC on charges the firm and its ex-CEO made false statements, engaging in a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue by ~$50M from 2014-2016 — Comscore and its former CEO Serge Matta were charged Tuesday by the SEC with engaging in a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue …
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@alexweprin, U.S. Securities …, Ad Age, Politico, Engadget, @dansinker, @rachsyme, @rachsyme, @mike_thomsen, Gizmodo, @austin_walker, @bgrueskin, @laura_june, @danielleiat, @lgbtqfc, @emilybell, @jakeswearingen, @cwarzel, New York Post, Fortune, Marketing Land, Business Insider and Adweek
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
UK's Archant, which publishes The New European, to outsource printing of four daily newspapers and 50 weeklies to News UK, as revenues fell ~30% in four years — Jeff Henry to leave as firm stops printing own titles after more than 170 years — The chief executive of one of Britain's …
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Press Gazette and Press Gazette
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
NYT's A.G. Sulzberger says the Trump administration was prepared to let Egypt arrest a NYT reporter, calls out Trump's anti-press rhetoric as a global threat — In many countries, journalists are being targeted because of the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society.
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@tomnamako, Washington Post, @m_delamerced, @svaradarajan, @spulliam, @declanwalsh, The Atlantic, @sam_vinograd, @postbaron, @declanwalsh, @nedprice, @declanwalsh, Boing Boing, @adamgoldmannyt, @womaninhavana, @dandrezner, Mediaite, @jason_kint, @nytopinion, Brown University, @mollyjongfast, @nahaltoosi, @maggienyt, @alexburnsnyt, NBC News, Financial Times, CNN, The Wrap, VICE, Poynter, The Hill, Slate and Fox News
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