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Wall Street Journal:
E.W. Scripps to buy ION Media for $2.65B, roughly doubling its TV station footprint; Berkshire Hathaway will invest $600M in Scripps to help finance the deal — Berkshire plans to make a $600 million preferred-equity investment in Scripps to help finance the purchase
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Laura Wagner / VICE:
Employees blast Alden-backed Tribune Publishing Company after it sent an email phishing test to staffers that promised bonuses; the company has apologized — The company sent staffers a fake email touting executive bonuses of up to $10,000 for “commitment to excellence.” — Laura Wagner
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The Guardian:
Harold Evans, an investigative journalist for 70 years, newspaper editor, magazine founder, and book publisher, died Wednesday at 92 — Legendary British-American media figure was behind major investigations including exposure of thalidomide scandal — Sir Harold Evans …
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
A look at the benefits and drawbacks of publishing on three-year-old Substack, as a growing number of reporters and writers migrate to the newsletter platform — Casey Newton, who has covered tech for The Verge, joins a growing number of reporters who have started subscription newsletters at Substack, a three-year-old platform.
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Aleksander Chan / Discourse Blog:
Discourse Blog, made up of former Splinter journalists, is leaving Substack in October to start its own site, working with WordPress-powered platform Lede
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Sarah Jeong / OneZero:
Q&A with Casey Newton on leaving The Verge to start a newsletter on Substack called Platformer, after many years as The Verge's Silicon Valley editor
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify and Chernin Entertainment agree to a multi-year partnership for Chernin to develop movies and TV shows based on Spotify's podcasts — More Spotify podcasts could soon become TV shows or movies thanks to a new, multi-year partnership announced today between the streaming music provider …
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Variety, The Wrap, The Verge, Deadline, Spotify, Forbes and Hollywood Reporter, more at Techmeme »
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap:
Sources: Deanna Brown, president of Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, is out after the merger with PMC — Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group President Deanna Brown is out at MRC after the merger between PMC and MRC on Wednesday, according to two individuals with knowledge of the matter.
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Variety:
Variety parent company Penske Media reaches a deal with MRC to operate Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter under a newly formed joint venture called PMRC
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
NYT CEO Meredith Kopit Levien predicts that digital English-language news subscriptions will reach 100M by 2030, says NYT can command a quarter of the market — The chief executive of the New York Times has predicted that 100m people will have digital English-language news subscriptions in ten years' time.
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CNN, @raju and @robinlustig
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
YouTube expands a fact-checking feature on issues related to elections and COVID-19 to Germany and UK, after initially launching it in the US, Brazil, and India — - YouTube will display information and links from third-party publishers on queries related to issues like elections and the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Drum, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / Vox:
Political journalists again re-evaluate the methods and value of in-person campaign trail reporting, as the pandemic amplifies 2020's weirdness — What happens when the campaign trail is an ethernet cable? — Olivia Nuzzi was covering a Donald Trump rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina …
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@voxdotcom, @mathewi and The Week
Business Wire:
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. to retire as chairman of NYT's board of directors at the end of the year, and will be succeeded by A.G. Sulzberger — A.G. Sulzberger to Become Chairman on Jan. 1, 2021 — Mr. Sulzberger Jr. Transformed The Times into an International Media Company …
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Fox News, Talking Biz News, New York Times, MediaPost, Columbia Journalism Review, @mathewi, @tomwatson, @cliffordlevy, @alexweprin and @gerryfsmith
Jessica Jerreat / Voice of America:
House of Representatives to hold hearing on Thursday to look into Michael Pack's leadership of USAGM; Pack has been subpoenaed but said he cannot attend — Lawmakers in Washington will hold an oversight hearing Thursday examining the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the parent agency of Voice …
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@craigcaplan and @wionews
David Roeder / Chicago Sun Times:
Chris Fusco, Chicago Sun-Times' executive editor, is leaving the paper to become executive editor of Ken Doctor's Lookout Local in Santa Cruz, California — The 20-year Sun-Times veteran will become the founding executive editor at Lookout Local, a venture of media analyst and writer Ken Doctor.
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Talking Biz News, @fuscochris, @fuscochris and Daily Herald
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Tribeca Film Festival adds Tribeca Games Award, opening submissions for video games for the 2021 festival — Tribeca Film Festival is expanding its focus on video games at next year's planned fest in New York City: For the first time, Tribeca will open submissions for games to join …
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