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David Bauder / Associated Press:
CBS News president called threats against Gayle King “reprehensible” after King was criticized for asking about Kobe Bryant's rape charge in an interview — NEW YORK (AP) — The CBS News chief called threats against journalist Gayle King “reprehensible” Saturday as backlash grew …
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
A look at the profitable subscription-based tech news site The Information, which Jessica Lessin says is expected to reach $20M in sales by the end of 2020 — Jessica Lessin's online tech publication costs $399 a year and has no ads. Silicon Valley's elite is eating it up.
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Ian Burrell / The Drum:
Inside NYT's London newsroom, which has around 50 journalists and is bringing in five more to handle breaking news for the paper's UK version of Express Desk — In an exam room atmosphere of intense concentration, New York Times journalists edit copy from the Iowa caucuses and update dispatches …
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@jane__bradley, @mattandersonnyt and @lizziepaton
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
A look at New Hampshire's WMUR, a Hearst-owned station watched by 56% of the state's households weekly and which took in ~$40M in political advertising in 2016 — The unsuccessful 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns of publishing scion Steve Forbes may have faded from memory.
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@stevebattaglio, @latimes, @mattdpearce, @mlcalderone, @stevebattaglio, @latimes and @stevebattaglio
@CTGuild / Chicago Tribune Guild:
[Thread] Tribune Publishing's Chicago-area newsrooms are losing more than a dozen staffers who chose to take buyouts in the most recent round of cuts — Today we mark the departures of more than a dozen colleagues, both in and out of the Guild, across all Chicago-area Tribune Publishing newsrooms, who have chosen to take the most recent round of buyouts. We wish them the best in this new era for their careers and their lives.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Sources: new Tribune Publishing CEO Terry Jimenez cut at least six positions ranked VP or higher, including that of Grant Whitmore, former Daily News publisher — Even the ax men are getting axed at Tribune Publishing. — The struggling newspaper giant's new boss has unleashed a bloodbath …
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Eight of the UK's 22 audited papers, excluding those in Scotland, are now edited by women, as are four of the ten daily national titles — Fleet Street will have more national newspapers edited by women than at any other time in its history as of next week.
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@hillyjanes, @pressgazette and @jessbrammar
News Corp:
News Corp says WSJ passed 2M digital subscribers in Q4 2019, up 13% YoY, while Dow Jones digital subscriptions grew 17% and overall subscriptions passed 3.5M — Dow Jones Surpasses 3.5 Million Subscriptions for First Time — The Wall Street Journal Crosses 2 Million Digital Subscriptions Mark
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@michaelmillerau, @gerryfsmith, Fox Business and News Corp
Maria Repnikova / New York Times:
Journalists in China have managed to cover the coronavirus outbreak by veiling criticism in human-interest stories and drawing on expert commentary — Reporters and citizen-journalists in China are asking hard questions about the crisis. Why is the government letting them?
ESPN:
ESPN's Jessica Mendoza, who was criticized for working as both ESPN analyst and NY Mets adviser, resigns from the Mets, gets pulled from Sunday Night Baseball — Jessica Mendoza has signed a multiyear extension with ESPN and will no longer continue in her role as baseball operations adviser …
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Muri Assunção / New York Daily News:
Elena Milashina, who has won awards for reporting on the torture of gay men in Chechnya, was beaten up by a crowd at a hotel in the Chechen capital of Grozny — A prominent investigative Russian journalist and a human rights lawyer were attacked late Thursday evening by a gang in the lobby …
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Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:
The author of California's AB5 law says she'll seek amendments to remove restrictions on freelance journalists, cutting out the 35 article submission cap — The author of AB5, California's new gig-work law, said Thursday that she'll seek amendments that remove some restrictions …