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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Gawker.com announces it will shut down next week, after nearly 14 years of operation — After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week. The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media's six other websites …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Gawker.com incubated writers who wrote with fearlessness and style, influencing broader web — If this is your first day reading an article on the web: Hello and welcome. If it isn't, you should be aware that much of what you've read on the web to this point has been shaped by the style …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Univision wants Gawker Media's blogs to shore up its reach to a younger digital audience ahead of a potential IPO — Univision is the biggest Hispanic media company in the U.S. Why in the world does it want Gawker Media, the aggressively impudent digital publisher that sold itself in a bankruptcy auction?
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Ken White / Popehat:
Gawker's fate shows the US legal system is receptive to abuse that suppresses speech, and not just from vengeful billionaires — Gawker has occasionally provided quality journalism and entertainment. That doesn't stop me from despising its amoral and repulsive ethos.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
The New York Times closes down its NYT Now app, no longer available for download starting the week of August 29 — In early 2014, The New York Times introduced an app called NYT Now that would provide a curated list of stories — for a lower price than a full digital subscription …
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Emil Leong / The Twitter Blog:
Twitter rolls out its quality filter setting to all, letting users filter “lower-quality content” like duplicate tweets from notifications — We're introducing some new features that will give you more control over what you see and who you interact with on Twitter, rolling out to everyone in the coming days.
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The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump's presidential campaign has produced a civil war in conservative media, which will lead to a post-election reckoning — “There are elements of the entertainment wing of the Republican Party that need to be dealt with.” — During the 1990s, no one had a run quite like The American Spectator.
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Trump campaign insider Jason Miller says “media bias” email blasts to the press makes journalists think twice, and Roger Stone says media criticism earns votes
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New York Times:
Trump hires Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen Bannon to lead campaign in shakeup
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Charlotte England / The Independent:
Egypt's state broadcaster ERTU suspends eight of its female hosts, ordering them to lose weight, sparking outrage among women's rights groups — Egypt's state broadcaster has suspended eight female television presenters because it says they are overweight.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Gannett sweetens bid for Tronc, which had rejected prior bid of $15 per share and is expected to respond by the end of the week — The new overture comes after Tronc rejected a prior bid of $15 a share — Gannett Co. has privately sweetened its bid for Tronc Inc. …
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Twitter says it has suspended 235K accounts since February for promoting terrorism, bringing total to 360K since mid-2015 — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter suspended 235,000 accounts that promoted terrorism over the last six months, as part of a continuing effort to keep people from using …
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Vicky Ward / Esquire:
Esquire reporter Vicky Ward reveals that Jared Kushner, owner of The New York Observer, asked that she pursue a retaliatory hit piece on developer Richard Mack — His father-in-law's bid for the White House is in shambles. Is he the man to fix it? — In the spring of 2011 …
Susannah Nesmith / Columbia Journalism Review:
A second Gatehouse Media newspaper in Florida, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, takes steps to unionize with the NewsGuild as buyouts loom — Newsroom employees at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune took steps to unionize Wednesday, just days after journalists at a sister publication, the Lakeland Ledger …
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