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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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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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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, The Texas Tribune, @niemanlab, @spj_tweets and @lpvhouse
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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The Guardian, bbc.co.uk, @davidhiggerson, @ed_owen and @jgibbins
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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AdExchanger, Adweek and Broadcasting & Cable
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 — All blogs running on the kinja.com domain will show a notification about the upcoming changes of Kinja user pages.
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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 …
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Complex Networks, which sells hot sauces in connection to its popular talk show “Hot Ones”, forms Climate, a new division to create products for other companies — Complex Networks is often held up as a role model in digital media for its commitment to building franchises that can be multifaceted businesses.
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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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@sjtaddeo, @kronayne, @gwenfaviles, @mlcalderone, @brianstelter, @jadenamos and @jimclarkeap
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Damning Mueller findings were diluted in part by journalists' obsession with optics, but BuzzFeed and CNN's FOIA win ensures more findings in the years to come — In March, after William Barr, the attorney general, released his misleading summary of the Mueller report to Congress …
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Washington Post, New York Times, @karolcummins, CNN, @oliverdarcy, @mattmittenthal, Raw Story, emptywheel and Inquirer.com
Siva Vaidhyanathan / New York Times:
Vetting political ads effectively and consistently at global scale is impossible; Congress should restrict ad targeting to the level of an electoral district — It's not about free speech. — Siva Vaidhyanathan is a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
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