Mediagazer: Profile of Dan Scavino, The White House's social media director and the only man that Trump trusts with his Twitter account (Robert Draper/New York Times)

2:30 PM ET, April 16, 2018

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Polina Rumyantseva, the editor in chief of Novy Den - where Russian journalist Maksim Borodin worked - says she does not believe his death was a suicide — Russian investigative journalist Maksim Borodin of Yekaterinburg has died of injuries sustained on April 12 when he fell from the window of his fifth-floor apartment.

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Russian journalist Maxim Borodin, who wrote about the deaths of Russian mercenaries in Syria, has died after falling from his apartment balcony

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ABC News' interview with former FBI Director James Comey averaged 9.8M viewers, far below the 22M who tuned in for 60 Minutes' interview with Stormy Daniels — ABC News' interview with former FBI Director James Comey did well in the Sunday overnight ratings but failed to nab the number one spot.

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A look at how Alden Capital is literally bleeding Digital First Media dry, with $248.5M of newspaper employees' pensions invested in Alden funds — Stop Alden Global Capital before it kills again. — The rebellion last week by The Denver Post's editorial board against newspaper's hedge-fund owners …

Discussion: @thenation, @drewmagary, @julia_sci, @craigtimes and @aaschapiro

Robert Draper / New York Times:

Profile of Dan Scavino, The White House's social media director and the only man that Trump trusts with his Twitter account — Unraveling the mystery of the inscrutable White House social media director, whose job is to help @realDonaldTrump stay unpresidential.

Discussion: @melissaryan, @nytimes, @crewcrew, @maggienyt and @cwarzel

Nellie Bowles / New York Times:

Report for America, a nonprofit organization modeled after AmeriCorps, aims to install 1,000 journalists in understaffed newsrooms by 2022 — A group of journalists have decided to do something about the diminution of newsrooms at the local level. They're making reporting part of a national service program.

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How freelance reporter Greg Donahue uncovered the life of Ron Porambo, a journalist who reported on the underworld of America before turning to a life of crime — RON PORAMBO WAS A JOURNALIST. He was an author and a visionary. He was also a robber and killer.

Discussion: @atavistmag, @cjr, @cjr and @jon_allsop

Jessica Dye / Financial Times:

Tronc shares up about 10% after report of SoftBank interest — Shares of Tronc are pushing higher on Monday morning after a report that SoftBank is among several bidders eyeing the US news publisher. — Tronc shares, which were briefly halted as interest surged following the report from Axios …

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Elon Green / Columbia Journalism Review:

Q&A with Kevin Feeney, who penned the first profile of Facebook as a college journalist at the Harvard Crimson in 2005 and now works for a real estate firm — Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moscovitz, co-founders of Facebook, in 2004. Photo: Justine Hunt/The Boston Globe via Getty Images.

Discussion: @elongreen and @jswatz

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:

Mixcloud, the audio streaming platform for long-form content, raises $11.5M from WndrCo; Ann Daly, ex-President of DreamWorks Animation, joins board — Mixcloud, the London startup that offers an audio streaming platform designed for long-form content, has closed its first-ever funding round, TechCrunch has learned.

Discussion: Variety and hypebot

Ernst-Jan Pfauth / De Correspondent:

De Correspondent designs a system to tap members' expertise to aid its reporting and hopes to launch a global English-language site in 2019 — There's a great untapped resource in journalism, and it's available to journalists right now. — It's the experience and expertise of your readers.

Discussion: @membershippzzle and @niemanlab

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