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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
USA Today becomes the final major national daily to launch a paywall, although breaking news remains free; Gannett's digital outlets have 90M visitors per month — When USA Today was introduced nearly 40 years ago, its short articles, copious charts and detailed weather coverage were disdained …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
MEL Magazine will be revived after Recurrent Ventures acquires the men's health and culture outlet from Dollar Shave Club; 18 of MEL's ~24 staff will be rehired — Recurrent Ventures, a venture-equity-backed digital media company, is acquiring MEL Magazine, a men's health and culture publication, from Dollar Shave Club
BuzzFeed News:
FOIA docs show that a Fox News producer sent a very broad FOIA request to the NSA last week seeking evidence that officials were spying on Tucker Carlson — A Fox News producer sent an extremely broad Freedom of Information Act request to the National Security Agency last week seeking evidence …
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@katz_mum and @mikaelthalen
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
On a Fox Business appearance with Maria Bartiromo, Tucker Carlson claimed the NSA leaked contents of his e-mail to journalists “in an effort to discredit me” — Tucker Carlson claimed that the NSA leaked contents of his private emails to journalists, during a Wednesday morning appearance on Mornings With Maria.
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund:
Nikole Hannah-Jones declines tenure at UNC and will teach at Howard University: “I cannot imagine working at... a school named for a man who lobbied against me” — Today, award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones announced that she has declined an offer of tenure from the University …
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
London's Evening Standard reports a loss of £17M, with revenue down 31% to £44M, in the year to September 27, 2020, as the pandemic kept commuters at home — Freesheet's revenues fall by 31% for the 12 months to 27 September — The Evening Standard has reported a loss …
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City A.M.
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Reviewed, which Gannett acquired last year for $160M to compete with NYT's Wirecutter and which has doubled staff to 80 employees in 18 months — USA Today publisher sees Reviewed as potential engine for digital growth, seeking to cash in on e-commerce boom
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@ronlieber, Thanks:@megan
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK government says it wants Channel 4's legal requirements to provide a “high provision” of news and current affairs content to remain in the event of its sale — The Government has said it would want Channel 4's minimum news and current affairs programming requirements to remain in the event of its sale.
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GOV.UK, Digital TV Europe, @edtgreenwood, @krishgm and The Times
BBC:
Peter R de Vries, a prominent Dutch journalist known for exposing mobsters, has been shot and seriously wounded minutes after leaving a TV studio in Amsterdam — A prominent Dutch journalist known for investigating the criminal underworld has been shot and seriously wounded on a street in central Amsterdam.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
CB Insights has ~1M newsletter subscribers, including 750K for its flagship newsletter, serving as a blueprint for companies using content to bolster business — CB Insights, a data software company that caters to buyers and sellers of technology, has nearly one million email newsletter subscribers …
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@asanwal, @seangriffey, @rafat, @thekendallbaker, @nbj914, @shafqatislam, @sarafischer, @cbinsights and @jryedinak
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Outbrain, which filed for an IPO last week, raises $200M from Boston-based hedge fund Baupost Group — Outbrain, an adtech company that provides clickbait ads below news articles, has raised $200 million in funding — Outbrain didn't disclose the valuation of the company for this deal.
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@adrianweckler, more at Techmeme »
Bryan Anderson / Associated Press:
An NC Superior Court judge sentenced a small-town newspaper editor to five days in jail after one of his reporters used an audio recorder during a murder trial — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina Superior Court judge put a small-town newspaper editor behind bars last month …
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The Hill, @jannwolfe and @raleighreporter
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