Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
5:20 PM ET, July 23, 2018

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
HuffPost:
Memo: Tronc to cut the New York Daily News newsroom by 50%; Robert York replacing Editor-in-Chief Jim Rich, Managing Editor Kristen Lee also leaving  —  The layoffs come days after rumors of deep cuts at the storied tabloid.  —  The New York Daily News, a storied big-city tabloid known …
RELATED:
Jim Rich / @therealjimrich:
If you hate democracy and think local governments should operate unchecked and in the dark, then today is a good day for you.  —  If you hate democracy and think local governments should operate unchecked and in the dark, then today is a good day for you.
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
The meeting in which New York Daily News staffers learned from Tronc that the EIC was ousted and the newsroom was being cut by 50% lasted less than a minute  —  The meeting lasted less than a minute.  By the time it was over, reporters and editors at The Daily News had been told …
Andrew Buncombe / The Independent:
Jack Dorsey, responding to Maggie Haberman's criticisms of Twitter, vows to work on identifying credibility and improving conversations' organization, context  —  The CEO of Twitter has admitted the platform is no longer a place where nuanced or thoughtful discussion can take place …
Pew Research Center:
Study: ~36% of largest papers and ~23% of the highest-traffic digital-native news outlets in the US experienced layoffs between January 2017 and April 2018  —  Newspaper layoffs have far from abated in the past year, and digital-native news outlets are also suffering losses, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis.
Discussion: @kbeninato
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook could recognize Holocaust denialism as hate speech and ban it on those grounds, but trying to censor every falsehood should be noted as a bad idea  —  To follow Mark Zuckerberg's utterances is to constantly cringe.  —  Last week was no different.
RELATED:
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Trump tariffs on newsprint cause some newspapers to cut printing days; higher costs will likely lead to redesigns, pricier subscriptions, and fewer pages  —  The tariffs increase the cost of newsprint by as much as 30 to 35 percent, though the impact on publishers is highly uneven …
New York Times:
Sources: feds think National Enquirer owner AMI may have acted more as a political supporter than a news org, raising 1st Amendment, campaign finance questions  —  Federal authorities examining the work President Trump's former lawyer did to squelch embarrassing stories before the 2016 election …
Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
A look at how alt-right troll Mike Cernovich uses Twitter to target journalists, typically by implicating them in sex crimes against minors  —  He just took down director James Gunn.  Now he's using a trollish rumor about a sex tape to go after journalists.  —  106 -
Discussion: Paste and Mashable
James Ball / Columbia Journalism Review:
It is time for newsrooms to cover technology extensively, across desks, acting as watchdogs rather than cheerleaders  —  A lowly tech employee was trying to do some simple task online and found out it was really hard.  Inspired by that difficulty, he—and it was almost always a he …
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
How women's magazines like Glamour and Cosmopolitan are harnessing exploding interest in politics among women and reaping the benefits of growing online traffic  —  It's not just Teen Vogue.  Readers are flocking to the websites of Glamour and Cosmo, and they're responding with aggressive political reporting.
Discussion: @creynoldsnc
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 5:20 PM ET, July 23, 2018.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Gregory Schmidt / New York Times:
Faced with flagging sales, comic book publishers are developing their own streaming platforms, bypassing services like Netflix and Amazon Prime
Peter White / Deadline:
BBC Studios' Chief Creative Officer Mark Linsey is switching roles, taking over as head of content partnerships, with a new director of content to be recruited
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Despite being debunked 80+ times and having 45+ posts marked as false by Facebook, YourNewsWire still gains hundreds of thousands of engagements per month
Lincoln Pigman / New York Times:
Russian lawmakers propose bill requiring sites with 100K+ daily visitors to take down “inaccurate” posts or comments within a day or face fines up to ~$800K
 Earlier Picks: