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8:15 AM ET, November 20, 2019

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Tribune Publishing Company:
Tribune Publishing says Alden Global Capital is now the company's largest shareholder, buying 25.2% of the company from Merrick Ventures and Michael Ferro Jr.  —  Tribune Publishing Company (NASDAQ: TPCO), one of the nation's leading media companies, today announced that funds managed …
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
Sources: NYT is facing a succession contest to replace Dean Baquet before September 2022, with three top candidates: Joe Kahn, James Bennet, and Cliff Levy  —  If you're following the news these days, you'll notice that a high percentage is about the New York Times — the headlines …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
During Tuesday's debate, UK's Conservative party renamed its main media Twitter account as “factcheckUK” and changed its logo to push anti-Labour material  —  Party accused of misleading public by tweeting anti-Labour posts as ‘factcheckUK’  —  The Conservatives have been accused …
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Gannett and New Media Investment Group's merger became official Tuesday, with executives hoping “efficiencies” will save about $300M/year  —  The deal to create the largest newspaper company in the nation — which became official at 4:10 p.m. on Tuesday — came about with remarkable speed …
Christopher Cheung / The Tyee:
Torstar announces 121 layoffs, with 73 to be cut as it closes StarMetro Vancouver and four other free dailies on Dec. 20; more layoffs are in southern Ontario  —  Five more daily newspapers shuttered, 73 jobs lost across Canada.  —  Christopher Cheung is a reporter at The Tyee.
Evan Smith / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Tribune EIC and chief audience officer are stepping down to launch a national nonprofit news organization aimed at giving women “facts, tools, and info”  —  They'll exit their leadership roles at The Texas Tribune at the end of the year.  We couldn't be more grateful …
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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Google announces Your News Update, an Assistant-powered audio feature that chooses stories based on interests, location, and more, available first in the US  —  It plays from a variety of sources instead of just the few you hand-pick  —  Google is rolling out a new service for Google Assistant that it's calling “Your News Update.”
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
A deep look at McClatchy's options for a sale, restructuring or bankruptcy, and the influence of the federal pension agency and Chatham Asset Management  —  The nation's second-largest newspaper company had paid off most of its old debt and still generates positive cashflow.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's antagonism toward Bezos, WaPo, and Amazon, followed by denial of a $10B cloud contract, should be a larger scandal than it has been treated so far  —  The saga of President Trump's reprisals against Amazon has lurked on the margin of the news, largely overshadowed by the Ukraine scandal.
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Facebook exec defends Breitbart on Facebook News, saying Breitbart is not being paid and balances out “far left” outlets, but it's unclear which ones she meant  —  Facebook recently announced that white supremacist propaganda site Breitbart would be considered a “high quality” …
Chris Baynes / The Independent:
Police in Malta have arrested Yorgen Fenech, one of the country's most prominent businessmen, in connection with the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia  —  Investigative reporter had written about Yorgen Fenech's links to Maltese politicians before she was killed by car bomb in 2017
Discussion: The Guardian and Politico
Faisal Kalim / What's New in Publishing:
FIPP and CeleraOne report: digital-only newspaper and magazine subscriptions have at least doubled from 10M to 20M in the last 18 months  —  Digital only subscriptions for news and magazine media have doubled from 10M to 20M in a year and a half, according to the latest Global Digital …
 
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
The Shawnee Mission Post in northeast Kansas has grown to 2,650 paying subscribers with an annual run rate of ~$190K, two years after launching its paywall
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
During impeachment testimony, House Democrats call out Fox News for comments made by its opinion hosts about star witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman
Mackenzie Nichols / Variety:
Sen. Warren, Sen. Sanders, others ask for an independent investigation into NBC News over allegations in Catch and Kill, a day before MSNBC hosts a Dem. debate
Discussion: Mediaite
NBC News:
Emails show that a 2015 article, fed by Stephen Miller, ran in Breitbart with a “Breitbart News” byline at Miller's insistence, disguising opinion as editorial
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
DOJ antitrust head Makan Delrahim says the DOJ will move to end the 1940s Paramount consent decrees, which limit major distributors' control over theater chains
Michael Calderone / Politico:
The Hill says it's reviewing, annotating, and when appropriate, correcting former columnist John Solomon's opinion pieces referenced in the impeachment inquiry
 

 
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth

Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

 
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