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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media agrees to acquire Refinery29 in a deal expected to close before the end of 2019; source: Vice is issuing mostly stock to Refinery29's shareholders — After months of talks, Vice Media sealed an agreement to acquire Refinery29, a bet by the two digital-centric media companies …
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Wall Street Journal, MediaPost, The Wrap, CNN, Hollywood Reporter, @johnjcook, Axios, The Drum, The Cut, @andreagonram and @moorehn
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Ad tech firm MediaMath debuts Source, an initiative to clean up the digital media supply chain, with 16 ad tech firms, ad agencies, and publishers participating — A group of 16 companies — including leading ad tech firms, ad agencies and publishers — is trying to help clean up the murky world of digital advertising.
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PR Newswire, Broadcasting & Cable, @danr917, @nytimesbusiness and Mobile Marketing Magazine
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Public opinion will affect the outcome of impeachment inquiry; journalists should prepare well for interviews, stop booking liars, and avoid false equivalence — Scott Pelley of CBS pushed back hard Sunday when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tried to spin him on Sunday's “60 Minutes.”
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@sulliview, @laurenduca, @ivanthek, @jayrosen_nyu, @jamesfallows, @oliverdarcy and @lawrence
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Guardian Media Group CEO David Pemsel to leave the news publisher in spring 2020 to join the Premier League — Clubs say Pemsel hired because of his ‘straightforward style and personal integrity’ — The Premier League has appointed the Guardian's David Pemsel as its new chief executive.
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Press Gazette, Daily Mail, CityAM, @jeffjarvis, Mediatel Newsline, @henrymance, @danroan and Telegraph
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Poll: 12 of the 15 most polarizing US brands are national news media; the gap between how Republicans and Democrats view CNN and Fox News has grown since 2018 — News media companies make up 12 of the 15 most polarizing brands in America today, according to a new Morning Consult poll provided to Axios.
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Morning Consult, Fast Company, @byjackkelly, @mattgrossmann, @raju, @mcrowdermeyer, The Wrap, MediaPost and New York Post
Kip Dooley / NewsMatch:
NewsMatch 2019 fundraising campaign: nearly 200 nonprofit newsrooms participating, 49 for the first time, donations up to $1K matched, running Nov. 1-Dec. 31 — In 2016, 54 news organizations participated in the first NewsMatch campaign, a swiftly organized matching gift campaign created …
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NewsMatch, @ssuttell and @jcstearns
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen:
Reuters Institute director says journalism is divided between a conservative rearguard and the vanguard, who accept uncertainty and need for change in the field — “The truth is hard” — I've come across this quote repeatedly in the past year, most frequently in the form of ads for the New York Times at various media events.
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Nieman Lab, American Press Institute, @rasmus_kleis, @jayrosen_nyu, @emilybell, @svaradarajan, @cristianlupsa, @jburnmurdoch, @davidbauer, @nikkiusher, @kathyenglish, @vassgatov, @emilybell, @_silversmith, @sambrook, @dabeard, @vassgatov, @gteresa, @chanders, @chanders, @jayrosen_nyu, @emilybell, @meeraselva1, @brizzyc, @chanders, @rasmus_kleis, @jbenton, @rasmus_kleis, @jeffjarvis, @emilybell, @rasmus_kleis and @emilybell
Chris Thompson / Deadspin:
Chris Stone is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Sports Illustrated after 27 years at the publication; source says layoffs are likely in the next few weeks — Sports Illustrated is currently transitioning ownership and corporate leadership, from Meredith Corp. to Authentic Brands Group …
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Awful Announcing and New York Post
Amy Kaufman / Los Angeles Times:
The real-life journalists behind characters in three films at the recent Toronto International Film Festival talk about their stories being adapted into movies — Even as she was reporting it, Jessica Pressler had the sense that her story about a group of strippers-turned-criminals was the stuff movies are made of.
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@latimesent, @sararivae, @latimes and @jpressler
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
Employees of the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald announce they plan to unionize, while criticizing a decade of downsizing, layoffs, and consolidation — Months after reporters revealed that McClatchy News CEO Craig Forman had received a $1 million bonus and $35,000 per-month housing stipend …
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@greenhousenyt and @miaminewtimes
Tom Grundy / Hong Kong Free Press HKFP:
Veby Mega Indah, the Indonesian journalist who was shot in the face with a police projectile in Hong Kong on Sunday, to lose sight permanently in one eye — Veby Mega Indah, an Indonesian journalist who was shot in the face with a police projectile on Sunday, will end up permanently blind in one eye, according to her lawyer.
WJLA-TV:
Reporters Without Borders protested the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and Trump's indifference towards it by projecting messages on the Newseum in DC on Wednesday — Advocacy group Reporters Without Borders, a French non-profit that advocates for global press freedom, protested the murder …
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Press Gazette, @rsf_en and The Guardian
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