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Documents and interviews show TheMaven's plans for Sports Illustrated: building “team communities”, or content farms, run by third parties using low-paid labor — Now that Sports Illustrated's three owners, Meredith Corp., Authentic Brands Group, and TheMaven …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: TheMaven, Sports Illustrated's new operator, is laying off 40+ employees and plans to hire as many as 200 contract workers in the coming months
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Defense One:
A Customs and Border Protection agent repeatedly asked a Defense One journalist, “You write propaganda, right?” during re-entry screening at Dulles airport — Repeating “You write propaganda, right?”, officer held passport until he received an affirmative answer.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney is banning Netflix ads on its networks; it had initially issued a blanket ban on ads from any streamers, but reversed course for all but Netflix — Entertainment giants are set to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to promote new streaming services
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Tom Burt / Microsoft on the Issues:
Microsoft: Iran-linked group attempted to hack 241 accounts belonging to a 2020 presidential campaign, journalists covering global politics, more — Tom Burt - Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust — Today we're sharing that we've recently seen significant cyber activity …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Supermarket giant Aldi will no longer sell newspapers or magazines in its UK stores; in the US, Kroger will stop carrying free papers and magazines October 15 — You can still get a wine advent calendar at an Aldi store in the U.K., but you can't buy a newspaper to go along with it.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
FT launches a six-month fellowship for aspiring black, Asian, and minority ethnic production journalists in memory of sub-editor Maisie Hylton — The Financial Times has launched a fellowship for aspiring ethnic minority journalists in memory of “much-loved” sub-editor Maisie Hylton.
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Creative Access and @ftpressoffice
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Print magazines and digital media companies are joining forces for more digital scale plus the potential of trusted media brands and premium print products — The paper magazine has increasingly become a luxury good, as more publishers jettison titles into digital lifeboats.
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American Press Institute and @nbj914
Andy Campbell / HuffPost:
HuffPost laid off 11 full-time employees and two contractors in its video department on Thursday, citing new strategy to focus on “high audience engagement” — About 11 full-time employees — including five managers — were cut as HuffPost “realigns its video strategy,” the company said.
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Subrat Patnaik / Reuters:
Thomson Reuters buys B2B events specialist FC Business Intelligence, which it will rebrand as Reuters Events and operate as part of the news division — (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.TO) (TRI.N) said on Friday it had acquired business-to-business events specialist, FC Business Intelligence (FCBI).
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Ginny LaRoe / First Amendment Coalition:
The First Amendment Coalition expands its Subpoena Defense Initiative, adding seminars that prepare lawyers to help journalists facing threats to press freedom — The First Amendment Coalition is expanding its Subpoena Defense Initiative, adding free legal seminars in New York and Washington …
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Brent Lang / Variety:
Elisabeth Murdoch, former 20th Century Fox CEO Stacey Snider, and UK TV producer Jane Featherstone launch Sister, a global content production company — Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone are joining forces to launch Sister, a global production and development company …
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Sky News launched its first livestream on Twitch this week, joining publishers like Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and Cheddar — Sky News is looking for new, younger viewers on Twitch, the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform. — Hunger for new and younger viewers is what's propelling …
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