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Sources: Patrick Soon-Shiong is exploring a sale of LA Times and considered transferring management of The San Diego Union-Tribune to Alden's MediaNews Group — Patrick Soon-Shiong seeks exit after less than three years at the helm, as losses mount — Billionaire biotech investor Patrick Soon-Shiong …
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Soon-Shiong family denies WSJ reports about plans to sell LA Times, and both Union-Tribune's COO and publisher say no plans exist to sell the San Diego paper — Los Angeles Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong on Friday reaffirmed his commitment to the news organization.
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@drpatsoonshiong, New York Post, @jayrosen_nyu and Bloomberg


App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second — Readers may be going directly to the source — The Australian Broadcast Company's ABC News app shot to the top of Apple's App Store charts …
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Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says he will hold talks with Zuckerberg to “see if there's a pathway forward”, but says news legislation will go ahead — - ‘The world is watching us very closely,’ says Treasurer — News content law expected to pass through parliament next week
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@lucasofri, @matthewstoller, Platformer, @jeffjarvis, @damiencave, Mark Smith's Newsletter, @matthewstoller, @jason_kint, Axios, Nieman Lab, Insider, @firstdraftnews, @pomeranian99, @maximillian_alv, @baekdal, @baekdal, @baekdal, @baekdal, @larakiara, New York Times, The Guardian and BBC, more at Techmeme »


Facebook's Australia ban is acute for people in places like Fiji, who rely on phone plans with cheap Facebook access as going to news websites costs more data — Media experts fear that communities reliant on the site for information will suffer significant impact


Study of New Jersey's local news finds communities in the lowest income bracket are twice as likely to be news deserts as news oases — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — The findings below are simplified for the purpose of clarity; please see the full paper for definitions and variable operationalization.


MIT's student paper The Tech will no longer publish ads by individuals seeking egg donations from students of a particular race, urges others to do the same — Most ads fail to disclose the risks of egg donation process while offering vast financial compensation


Sources: Meredith, which sold Time to the Benioffs, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to try to stop Time from moving its bookazines from Meredith to Bauer — Print magazines may be a struggling business, but a recent cease-and-desist aimed at Time magazine suggests the business of churning …
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MediaPost


Disabled people are poorly represented in newsrooms and lack resources, like formal talent pipelines, leading to lower quality coverage of disability — Disabled people make up 20% of the U.S. population but take up little space on mastheads and in coverage. Why? — ARTICLE BY
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@spj_tweets, @greatlakeskaye, @mich_mcq and @ncdj_asu


Column, a startup that charges a small fee to process the placement of public notices, has partnered with McClatchy, Wick Communications, and Ogden Newspapers — Five months after launching with the goal of modernizing public notices in newspapers, the startup Column has formed partnerships with McClatchy …
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@columnpbc, @jakeseaton0 and @niemanlab

A court has dismissed Rep. Devin Nunes' libel lawsuit against CNN, citing California law that requires a request for a correction within 20 days — The decision (Nunes v. CNN, Inc.), from Judge Laura Taylor Swain (S.D.N.Y.), has just been released. The alleged libel: … The heart of the legal analysis:
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@devincow, @adamsteinbaugh, Politico and Law & Crime


Three fact-checking organizations, including two members of Facebook's fact-checking program, haven't been able to operate their Facebook pages in Australia — RMIT ABC Fact Check, Australian Associated Press and Agence France-Presse haven't been able to share fact checks on Facebook
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Scroll.in, Politico, @ctardaguila and @mantzarlis