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Ben Smith / New York Times:
The labor beat is hot again, both at legacy news outlets and at mission-driven ones like NY-focused The Chief-Leader, whose new owner plans to double staff — At a moment of political turmoil, economic change and a pandemic-driven focus on how we work, labor has become a hot news beat.
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Irena Hwang / ProPublica:
How a ProPublica data journalist with a bioinformatics background used public genomic sequencing data to track a salmonella outbreak in the US chicken industry — For a ProPublica reporter who did Ph.D. work in bioinformatics, data on bacterial DNA helped reveal how a once-rare salmonella strain spread through the chicken industry.
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Max Willens / Digiday:
McClatchy, which began placing audio versions of its articles at the top of stories in September, reports 1%-5% clickthrough rates on the audio player — In late September, McClatchy sent a robot probe into a world where audiences can listen to every story its papers produce.
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@johnkunza
Leyland Cecco / The Guardian:
A look at the messy public feud inside Canada's Rogers Communications between mother and son, as questions linger over who in the Rogers family should take over — The fight for Rogers Communications has riven one of Canada's richest families - and began with an accidental butt dial
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Report: BBC license fee could be frozen for two years from next year to stop it rising with inflation, in a blow to BBC's ability to compete with big streamers — The BBC looks set to have its funding frozen for the next two years in a major blow to the corporation's ability to compete with the big players.
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Telegraph and Digital TV Europe
Barbara Allen / Poynter:
A 148-year-old Georgia weekly was about to close so its publisher could retire, but UGA's journalism school is taking it over and making it a capstone class — The publisher of The Oglethorpe Echo planned to shut the paper down so he could retire. A phone call to the college saved it.
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@jaclyncosgrove and @damianradcliffe
Illia Ponomarenko / @iaponomarenko:
Kyiv Post, Ukraine's only major newspaper in English, closes; staff say they were all fired after resisting attempts to infringe on editorial independence — BREAKING! @KyivPost has been killed. As simple as that. Today is officially the last day of Ukraine's only major English-language newspaper. We are all fired. This is what we all have to say about this situation. Please, please share to spread the word arond. https://twitter.com/...
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@tashecon, @lgaladza, @olganyc1211, @samberkhead, @matthew_kupfer, @olgatokariuk and KyivPost
Sarah Gooding / WP Tavern:
A recently unredacted antitrust complaint says AMP pages brought 40% less revenue to publishers, partly due to Google throttling load times of non-AMP ads — The Chrome Dev Summit concluded earlier this week. Announcements and discussions on hot topics impacting the greater web community …
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TechCrunch, @carnage4life, @vasiliyzukanov, @triblondon, Picking Trails, @lehors, @jameshercher and @robinberjon, more at Techmeme »
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix faces more active libel suits than any major news outlet, partly due to its nonfiction fare, often unsuccessfully arguing that it is just a distributor — The mega-streamer is facing more defamation complaints than any major news outlet, stemming from projects like 'Making a Murderer …
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@michellemanafy, more at Techmeme »
Robert Booth / The Guardian:
FOIA docs: UK's public appointments watchdog asked interview panelists to find chairs for BBC and BFI to be replaced as they were “not sufficiently independent” — Exclusive: Regulator asked interview panellists to be replaced as they were ‘not sufficiently independent’
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@lordcfalconer
Bloomberg:
Sources: Bauhinia, a holding company owned by China's Liaison Office in Hong Kong, is working on an offer to acquire South China Morning Post from Alibaba — - Bauhinia owned by government's Liaison Office in Hong Kong — Alibaba under pressure from Beijing to shed media properties
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Menagerie, the Newsletter and @krislc
Feven Merid / Columbia Journalism Review:
McClatchy, owned by hedge fund Chatham Asset Management, skips Report for America's next cycle; sources: it's a response to RFA president's hedge fund bashing — In June, the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by Steven Waldman—the president and co-founder of Report for America (RFA) …
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