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Joe Berkowitz / Fast Company:
The Washington Post homepage was dominated by a Trump campaign ad on Thursday, sparking a furious debate as some say the purchase will fund journalism — The digital home of the Washington Post, that venerated beacon of American journalism, is currently an exercise in cognitive dissonance.
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Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle:
Hearst picks Emilio García-Ruiz, The Washington Post's digital operations managing editor, as the new EIC of the San Francisco Chronicle — Hearst, the owner of The Chronicle, named Emilio Garcia-Ruiz the publication's new editor in chief Thursday. — Garcia-Ruiz, the Washington …
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Gannett releases workforce demographics of USA Today and its local outlets for the first time, along with its goals for diversity and inclusion by 2025 — On Thursday, Gannett, the parent company of USA Today and more than 260 daily local news outlets in the United States …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
A trade body representing NYT, WaPo, WSJ, and other publishers asks Apple for improved deal terms for digital subscriptions sold through the App Store — The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are among companies seeking more favorable terms in Apple's app store
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Rune Werliin / AudienceProject:
Survey: 41% of US users have ad blockers, down from 52% in 2016; mobile ad blocking grows to 7% from 5% in 2018; 50% say online ads are irrelevant to them — In a new study on the attitude towards advertising and use of ad blocking, we see that ad block usage is dropping …
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Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Oregon judge grants injunction against federal officers, exempting journalists from dispersal orders and barring the seizure of photo, audio, or video equipment — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge granted a preliminary injunction on Thursday against federal officers, exempting journalists …
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
Newsweek has become a zombie magazine whose opinion section relies on the outlet's former legitimacy to launder extreme and conspiratorial ideas — Writing in The Columbia Journalism Review last year, Daniel Tovrov depicted Newsweek, once one of America's most distinguished magazines, as a shell of its former self.
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
DOJ asks US Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that found Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his critics on Twitter — The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that found President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his critics on Twitter.
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
MGM overhauls its Orion Pictures brand with Alana Mayo as division head and a commitment to focus on underrepresented themes and filmmakers — The 36-year-old producer Alana Mayo will lead the division, which will release two to three films a year and focus exclusively on underrepresented filmmakers.
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The Daily Beast:
How Fox News helped boost Steve Bannon's “We Build the Wall” fundraiser, that federal prosecutors now say defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors — “A story of the can-do American spirit in action,” Fox star Laura Ingraham positively beamed of the right-wing fundraiser that the feds say was a multimillion-dollar fraud.
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Laura Garbes / American Prospect:
Interviews with 70 POC who worked at NPR member stations reveal the importance editors gave to content that would appeal to a white middle-aged audience — How whiteness dilutes voices of color at public radio stations — The first employee of National Public Radio (NPR), Jack Mitchell …
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
WSJ CRO says 65% of the paper's ad revenue comes from B2B advertisers and that CPMs have grown 15% in the last year thanks to its first-party data collection — The tumultuous tides in media are still turning, and not all publishers are affected equally. A tense advertising landscape …
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