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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
NYT journalist Farhad Manjoo spent nearly two months relying solely on print for his news and concluded that digital has broken how we process information — I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., via an alert on my watch. Even though I had turned off news notifications months ago …
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Dan Seiffert / Boston Business Journal:
The Boston Globe is increasing the price of its print subscription by up to 80%, meaning daily delivery will cost some customers $1,347 a year — The priciest regional daily newspaper in the U.S. is about to get pricier, with as much as an 80 percent increase possible for some home delivery subscribers.
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Univision withdraws its long-delayed IPO, citing “prevailing market conditions”, announces that Peter Lori will replace Frank Lopez-Balboa as CFO — Francisco Lopez-Balboa is out and Peter Lori has been promoted as chief financial officer. — Univision Communications is canceling …
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Weekly music mag NME, the UK's equivalent of Rolling Stone, is ending its print edition but will continue to operate digitally — Publisher of music magazine consulting about redundancies, while title will continue online … The NME is to cease publication in print after 66 years …
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Associated Press:
The Associated Press partners with Facebook to identify and debunk false or misleading stories related to the US mid-term elections — As part of its comprehensive fact-checking efforts, The Associated Press announced Wednesday that it will work with Facebook to identify and debunk false …
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Mediaite, @justinhendrix, @ericcarvin and @jason_w_white
Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Sources: Snap plans layoffs to its engineering department, the largest layoffs to date; source says less than 10% of staff in the unit are affected — Snap Inc. is preparing its largest round of layoffs to date, Cheddar has learned. — The Snapchat-maker plans to announce the cuts internally within …
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Newsweek-owned website IBT ran malicious code that experts say is used to commit ad fraud; company says it will conduct investigation — The embattled publisher of Newsweek and the International Business Times on Tuesday admitted that three of its websites were running malicious code that experts say is used to commit ad fraud.
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
In an interview, Peter Thiel says he is pursuing Gawker through the courts because Terry Bollea is owed money and does not plan to destroy site's archives — Peter Thiel is Silicon Valley's homegrown Cassandra. He warned for years that the big tech companies were arrogant and clueless and less good for mankind than they believed.
Nitasha Tiku / Wired:
Rep. David Cicilline says he plans to introduce a bill to exempt publishers from antitrust action, letting them negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook — ON STAGE AT a tech conference last month, Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of news partnerships, fired a warning shot to publishers …
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@nitashatiku and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
Women's Media Center:
Women's Media Center report: women of color represent 7.95% of US print newsroom staff, 12.6% of local TV news staff, and 6.2% of local radio staff — “It seems like there is a cap on people of color in newsrooms” — WASHINGTON — Fifty years after the Kerner Commission criticized …
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Nieman Lab, @womensmediacntr and @sulliview
Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Spotify has chosen Citadel Securities to handle its direct listing on NYSE and be its market maker — Electronic-trading firm Citadel will be the market maker for the unusual offering from the music-streaming company — Spotify Technology SA has chosen electronic-trading firm …
Shonda Novak / Austin American-Statesman:
The Austin American-Statesman is being sold to GateHouse Media for $47.5M, ending 41+ years of ownership by Cox Enterprises; deal expected to close April 2 — The Austin American-Statesman is being sold to New York-based publishing company GateHouse Media, executives said Tuesday …
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