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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Tronc's sale of Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune to Patrick Soon-Shiong will close on Monday after long negotiations over service agreements — Biotech billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong on Monday will take control of the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune …
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Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
Blockchain-based media startup Civil funds an effort by five former Denver Post reporters and three editors to launch The Colorado Sun by the end of 2018 — They left The Denver Post amid newsroom layoffs and interference in the editorial process by the newspaper's hedge-fund owners.
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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Startup reallyread.it hopes to foster dialogue among commenters via a plugin that tracks how much of the article has been read and a homepage for debate — The battle against the uncivil comments section is also a battle against high bounce rates for reallyread.it.
ProPublica:
A look at some of the journalism ads flagged as political by Facebook, showing how Facebook's screening policies are creating problems for media organizations — One ad couldn't have been more obviously political. Targeted to people aged 18 and older, it urged them to “vote YES” …
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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Publishers like Vox Media and BuzzFeed Studios signing deals with Hollywood talent agencies to help them land video deals for original programming — Vox Media likely wouldn't have been able to sell its upcoming show, “American Style,” to CNN without the help of Hollywood talent agency WME.
Variety:
Rolling Stone promotes Jason Fine to editor, in advance of the relaunch of its magazine, website, and live events business in July — Rolling Stone has named Jason Fine as editor in advance of the relaunch of the magazine, website and live event business in July.
Katherine Maher / WIRED UK:
As tech firms like Facebook and Google lean more on Wikipedia to fight disinformation, Wikimedia Foundation says they should do more to support the site — If big tech companies are going to use Wikipedia as a resource, they should better support its important work, says the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider:
Over 400 Washington Post employees have signed an open letter to owner Jeff Bezos requesting fair benefits and wages — - More than 400 Washington Post employees addressed an open letter to owner Jeff Bezos. — They signed a petition calling for fair pay, benefits, and job security, decrying “shocking” current practices.
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Ian Mohr / Page Six:
Moira Donegan, creator of the Shitty Media Men list, is working on a book about it, likely to primarily be a critique of sexism in media — Moira Donegan — the journalist who created the “S - - tty Media Men” list — is shopping a “S - - tty Media Men” book, sources exclusively tell Page Six.
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@publisherswkly
Anna Marum / Columbia Journalism Review:
For Oregon government coverage, smaller newsrooms mean more reliance on AP, fewer daily updates on bills, and less frequent but more in-depth original reporting — SAUL HUBBARD WAS AN INTERN at the Register-Guard in Eugene, Oregon, when the paper tapped him to cover the state capitol and sent him to Salem in 2011.
Jackie Strause / Hollywood Reporter:
AMC pulls Chris Hardwick's talk show and appearances on panels at San Diego Comic-Con after abuse allegations from ex-girlfriend — The decision comes one day after Hardwick's ex-girlfriend, Chloe Dykstra, claimed he sexually assaulted her. — AMC has pulled Chris Hardwick's talk show …
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Jeffery C. Mays / New York Times:
Boston Globe has suspended columnist Kevin Cullen for 3 months without pay after review found fabrications in public remarks he had made about marathon bombing — The Boston Globe suspended its columnist Kevin Cullen for three months without pay on Friday after a review found fabricated details …
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