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Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune:
IRS approves nonprofit status for Salt Lake Tribune, making it the first legacy paper to make the switch; ownership to be shifted to a public board of directors — The Salt Lake Tribune is now a nonprofit, an unprecedented transformation for a legacy U.S. daily that is intended to bolster …
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Aaron Calvin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporter who was fired after infamous Carson King profile for the Des Moines Register argues Gannett scapegoated him to preserve its bottom line amid backlash — During the seven months I worked as a trending-news reporter for the Des Moines Register, it was my job to write about viral news …
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
The Texas Tribune shuts TribTalk, its sister site of contributed opinion pieces and sponsored content, after five years, citing little traffic and social shares — “It was a good sandbox to see if there's a market for these sponsored content pieces, to see how we'd treat them in a design and workflow way …
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The Texas Tribune, @niemanlab, @spj_tweets, @lpvhouse and The Texas Tribune
Frank Pallotta / CNN:
Netflix added a button to skip the politics segments of Seth Meyers' new comedy special “Lobby Baby”, following a request from the comedian — New York (CNN Business)Seth Meyers thinks some comedy fans may be burned out by DC politics, so he asked Netflix (NFLX) to help him do something about it.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media's acquisition of Refinery29 has closed; Refinery29's co-CEOs Philippe von Borries and Justin Stefano will no longer be involved in daily management — Vice Media Group closed its acquisition of Refinery29 — and Refinery29's co-CEOs and co-founders Philippe von Borries …
Louisa Thomas / New Yorker:
G/O's demand that Deadspin stick to sports is foolish, as much of what happens in sports is a result of power, money, and the culture in which athletes operate — Two years ago, Sports Illustrated, which had been a weekly magazine for decades, began publishing just thirty-nine issues a year.
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István / Kinja Changelog:
G/O Media says it's reevaluating options to maintain Kinja user pages after blowback to an announcement that it would discontinue them and delete content
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
BBC says it will establish a new standalone non-profit body to run the Local News Partnership, which will be expanded to cover local councils and NHS trusts — The BBC has laid out plans to expand its local democracy reporting service, recruiting new reporters to cover local councils …
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George P. Slefo / Ad Age:
Meredith sells the remaining 60% stake in the ad tech company Viant, that it acquired when it bought Time, to Viant's co-founders who owned 40% — The news comes roughly two weeks after Roku said it was buying DSP Dataxu — Viant has acquired itself from media publishing powerhouse Meredith, the companies said Monday.
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Michael J. Socolow / Politico:
Journalists shouldn't use TikTok, as doing so promotes a platform that is relying on its users' ignorance of its history of censorship and privacy invasion — Journalists should not be promoting a platform with a documented history of political censorship.
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CBS Interactive President and COO Marc DeBevoise to become CEO, taking over from Jim Lanzone, who is leaving after nine years to join Benchmark Capital — CBS Interactive is undergoing a CEO transition as Marc DeBevoise takes the reins from Jim Lanzone, who is leaving after nine years …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Aspiring journalists, learning to be professionals at struggling college papers, are experiencing hardships like those affecting their peers at national pubs — SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — The Daily Orange isn't daily anymore. — The student-run newspaper that has covered Syracuse University since 1903 …
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Alex Williams / New York Times:
Post #MeToo, signs emerge that glossy men's mags are backpedaling from the formula that kept them at the pinnacle of publishing for a half-century — The boys' club of glossy publishing confronts an identity crisis. — Imagine if Kodak had answered the threat of digital photography by pivoting from film to outdoor grills.
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Angelica Mari / ZDNet:
Brazil has the second highest podcast consumption in the world, after the US, with 40% of its internet users having listened to a podcast, per local survey — The country is the second largest market for the format in the world, and players such as Spotify want to capitalize on that growth.
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