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John Bowden / The Hill:
NYT offers free digital subscriptions to all US high school students and teachers until September 2021 as part of a partnership with Verizon — The New York Times says it will offer U.S. high school students and teachers free digital subscriptions to the Times's content through next year.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: WaPo is nearing 3M digital subscribers, up 50% YoY; NYT has tripled digital-only subscribers since 2016 to 6.1M
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The Rebooting, Columbia Journalism Review, Are You Engaged?, What's New in Publishing, @dankennedy_nu, Simon Owens's Tech …, American Press Institute, @elanazak, @annemariebridy, @joshsternberg, @nathanwurtzel, @sub8u, @mikebrestdc, @mathewi, @dubois, @sarafischer, @ylichterman, @kerrymflynn and Business Insider
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
ViacomCBS to sell publisher Simon & Schuster to Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, for $2.175B in cash — Bertelsmann, owner of publishing giant Penguin Random House, was seen as a logical contender for Simon & Schuster. ViacomCBS announced its intent to sell the publishing arm …
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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
Book publishing has been consolidating to increase its bargaining power in the face of Amazon's dominance, whose lock on the book business must be addressed — In 1960, Dwight Eisenhower's attorney general, William Rogers, read the paper with alarm. He learned that Random House intended …
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@franklinfoer, @peterlattman, @kyliescottbooks, @victoriastrauss and Publishers Weekly
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Sources: Fox producers have been told to avoid booking some regular guests if the latter kept doing Newsmax appearances after being encouraged to stop — New York (CNN Business)Fox News is taking action to stave off newfound competition from Newsmax TV. — Producers on some Fox programs …
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Business Insider, @newsmax, @ericbolling and @brianstelter
Maya Binyam / Columbia Journalism Review:
A deep look at newsroom diversity over the years, and how unions have begun to push for contracts with binding language for diversity in hiring — Media companies haven't made newsrooms inclusive. Can unions? — For two decades, from its genesis in the mid-nineties, Vice Media branded itself in the image of the dispossessed.
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Nieman Lab, @rachelysanders, @nattythejourno, @cjr, @nyguild, @hamiltonnolan, @blackdigitalhum, @mayabinyam, @anoobhu, @marcusryder, @jnoisecat, @stephaniemlee, @bbcleisha, @kemettler and @chameauleon
Armin Rosen / Tablet Magazine:
An in-depth look at how The Drudge Report changed over the past few years finds it may have become a conduit for ad fraud and some think Drudge left in 2017 — The Drudge Report has become a conformist shadow of its formerly bratty, oppositional self. Why?
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Profile of Jennifer Jacobs, a senior political reporter for Bloomberg News, who has come to dominate the White House COVID-19 cases beat — Jennifer Jacobs, a senior political reporter for Bloomberg News, has come to dominate this only-in-2020 beat — If you want to find …
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@retogregori, @medresjourno, @andrewfeinberg, @bylenasun, @tomkeene, @elaheizadi, @davidshepardson and @brianstelter
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Sources: Fox agreed to a 7-figure payout to Seth Rich's family in a deal made in time for Fox News President Jay Wallace and Sean Hannity to avoid depositions — WASHINGTON — Just as star anchor Sean Hannity and other high-profile Fox News figures were due to be deposed about their promotion …
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@jameskosur, @leablackmiami, @janekleeb, @cristianafarias, @mikebutcher, Newser, @davidfolkenflik, @jeremymbarr, MediaPost, @bgrueskin, @kimmasters, @bradmossesq, @mikeisaac, @isikoff, @davidfolkenflik, @davidfolkenflik, NPR, The Week, @erikwemple, @erikwemple, @erikwemple, @erikwemple, CNN, Washington Post, Business Insider and Variety
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Actor Faizon Love is suing Universal Studios, claiming executives broke promises after Love was omitted from the international poster for 2009's Couples Retreat — Faizon Love was whitewashed from the international marketing for ‘Couples Retreat.’ More than a decade after getting an apology, the actor is suing over what he didn't get.
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The Guardian, Variety, The A.V. Club, @eriqgardner, @zernerlaw and Los Angeles Times
Leigh-Ann Jackson / New York Times:
A day in the life of Nilay Patel, EIC of The Verge and host of The Vergecast and Decoder podcasts, as he juggles management, creative duties, and remote work — Nilay Patel and The Verge are still reviewing gadgets and covering an industry, but with cameos from a Halloween-loving 2-year-old.
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@voxmedia, @reckless, @susanthesquark, @reckless, @om and @dcseifert
David Brown / The Times:
UK judge rules that Johnny Depp cannot appeal The Sun libel case and must pay £628,000 in legal costs to The Sun — Johnny Depp has been refused permission to appeal against the findings of a judge who ruled that he was a wife beater. — The actor has also been ordered to pay …
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@mygrindelwald, Bustle, The Wrap and Variety
Kerry Flynn / CNN:
HuffPost staffers worry BuzzFeed may not do much to improve HuffPost's diversity problem, as some BuzzFeed staffers say Peretti is all talk, not enough action — New York (CNN Business)About an hour after the news that BuzzFeed is acquiring HuffPost first broke, BuzzFeed chief Jonah Peretti held …
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@sanjanakaranth, @marinafang, @ryanjreilly, @alexanderrusso, @huffpostunion, @mcwm, @sanjanakaranth and @biettetimmons
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