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Michael Calderone / Politico:
NYC Mayor De Blasio and Governor Cuomo slam Tronc's decision to halve NYDN newsroom, as fears grow the city is becoming a local news “desert” — Tronc's decision to cut the Daily News newsroom in half comes amid growing concerns that New York City is underserved when it comes to covering courts, cops and local communities.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CEO memo: Tronc to lay staffers off at other papers “today and tomorrow”, cuts not to be as severe as those at New York Daily News — Tronc laid off half the staff of the New York Daily News on Monday. Astonishingly, the cuts are not over yet.
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The Week, @mccanner, @elanazak, @ckrewson, @lworthysports, @billbarrowap and @mattdpearce
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
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Reuters:
Verizon beats estimates in Q2 with net income of $4.12B and total revenue of $32.20B — (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) reported better-than-expected quarterly profit and revenue on Tuesday as the No. 1 U.S. wireless carrier attracted more subscribers with unlimited data plans, sending shares higher in premarket trading.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Verizon loses 37K net pay TV subscribers for its Fios video service in Q2, takes hit of ~$658M charge related to closure of go90 video app — The telecom giant takes a pre-tax charge for product realignment of $658 million, “mainly related to the discontinuation of Verizon's go90 platform and associated content.”
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The Wrap, Barron's Online, TheStreet and @jeffjarvis, more at Techmeme »
The Daily Beast:
Sources: Fox News employees have been attempting to plant negative stories about Kimberly Guilfoyle, accusing her of workplace misconduct and abuse — In the past few days, staffers at Fox News have waged a covert war and hostile whisper campaign against one of their most prominent former colleagues.
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The Daily Caller
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Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
Bill Simmons inks new deal with HBO, will continue to create sports-themed content from TV to films for the cable network — On the heels of his ‘Andre the Giant’ doc, Simmons is staying put with a pact focused on sports programming. — HBO will remain in the Bill Simmons business.
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Variety, Awful Announcing and Fortune
Susan Taylor Martin / Tampa Bay Times:
Mark Katches, currently editor and VP of content at The Oregonian, named executive editor of The Tampa Bay Times — ST. PETERSBURG The Tampa Bay Times today named Mark Katches, a veteran journalist who has led his teams to Pulitzer-Prize-winning work, as the next executive editor of Florida's largest newspaper.
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Digital revenue at The Guardian's parent company has outstripped print revenues for the first time in its history, boosted by 570K regular contributors — Group that owns Guardian and Observer earned digital revenues of £108.6m last year and £107.5m from print and events
John Hopewell / Variety:
Netflix is launching its first European production hub in Madrid, in bid to boost its “growing” library of Spanish-language content — New facility to target Spanish-language production — Netflix is launching its first European production hub in Madrid …
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Fast Company
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.
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Google's Digital News Innovation (DNI) Fund awards €21M to 98 media projects in 28 European countries after assessing its fifth round of applications — The fifth round of the DNI Fund focused on monetisation and diversifying revenue streams — Google's Digital News Innovation (DNI) …
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The Keyword
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
A startup called Volume tries to work as an intermediary between community radio stations and larger media buyers to bring community radio to rural South Africa — “You can't bridge mainstream to community media when the community doesn't have the ability to present their reporting."
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