Mediagazer: A McClatchy-Tronc merger, with Patrick Soon-Shiong as key player, could see a revitalization in California journalism and tech innovation (Ken Doctor/Nieman Lab)

6:15 PM ET, September 17, 2018

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Marc Benioff says he won't get involved operationally in Time, which will remain in New York, with Meredith remaining a key partner — While having a massage late Sunday, the West Coast-based tech billionaire discussed via text message why he was entering the East Coast-based media industry …

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Peter Kafka / Recode:

After Time magazine's sale, questions remain about the future of Fortune, Money, and Sports Illustrated, which Meredith has been trying to sell for most of 2018 — Marc Benioff paid a surprising $190 million for Time magazine. Meredith hopes it can find other deep pockets for its other titles.

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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the Benioffs are paying approximately 5.76 times the operating earnings for Time Magazine, which is expected to see a 9% revenue decline this year

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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Meredith Corp. has agreed to sell Time magazine for $190M to Marc Benioff, co-founder of Salesforce.com, and his wife, Lynne Benioff

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:

A McClatchy-Tronc merger, with Patrick Soon-Shiong as key player, could see a revitalization in California journalism and tech innovation — One's a family-controlled, century-plus-old newspaper chain, known for believing in its civic mission but not for its digital strategy. The other is, well, Tronc.

Discussion: Chicago Tribune and Poynter

Cora Currier / The Intercept:

Internal memos from 2015, written by US AG for FBI, show how the US government can monitor journalists: high-level DOJ officials bring requests to FISA court — The U.S. government can monitor journalists under a foreign intelligence law that allows invasive spying and operates outside …

Discussion: Freedom of the Press …

Jesse Brown / CANADALAND:

Jesse Brown, the reporter who initially broke the Jian Ghomeshi story, says Ghomeshi's essay in The New York Review of Books is filled with inaccuracies — Had The New York Review of Books bothered to look into Ghomeshi's claims before publishing his essay, this is what they would have learned

Discussion: @jessebrown, Fortune, @amandacconn, @kaleighrogers, @mattyglesias and @bioethicsjosie

Paige Williams / New Yorker:

A profile of Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, including her public and private relationship with the press, and how she works with Trump — What does the press secretary believe in—other than defending the President's every word? — Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary …

Discussion: @kaitlancollins, Washington Post, @will_bunch, @annehelen, @jdawsey1, @carolleonnig, @dandrezner, @williams_paige, @alex_lily, The Daily Beast, @ericboehlert, @joshmankiewicz, @eschor and Jezebel

Hannah Frishberg / Columbia Journalism Review:

A look at the three profitable independent local news outlets, a bi-weekly and two blogs, in the New York neighbourhood of Roosevelt Island — Roosevelt Island, a thin, roughly two-mile sliver of land in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, is home to some 14,000 New Yorkers …

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

Tom Arnold, host of Viceland's “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes”, was involved in a physical altercation with Apprentice producer Mark Burnett — The tension between Tom Arnold and Mark Burnett boiled over into a physical altercation at Sunday's Evening Before Emmy party, a fundraiser for the Motion Picture Television Fund.

Discussion: Page Six, Deadline, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood Life, Vanity Fair, The Week, Joe.My.God., The Daily Beast and TV Tattle

Livemint:

Sources: Walmart's Flipkart has held early-stage talks with Indian video streaming service Hotstar about acquiring a stake in the company — Flipkart already has some ties with Hotstar, having launched a new video advertisement platform with Hotstar in July

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Music Business Worldwide:

Leaked email to Dubai ad agency shows Spotify plans to launch across the Middle East and North Africa in November with a new regional headquarters in Dubai — Spotify's next major global move is coming soon. — According to a leaked email, the service plans to launch across the Middle East …

Discussion: Gulf News, RAIN News and Variety

Violet Blue / Engadget:

Female ASMR video creators have been permanently banned from PayPal and had funds frozen after 8chan harassment campaign; PayPal says it has no anti-ASMR policy — In June, China banned and excised videos of sound effects while claiming to cleanse its internet of pornography.

Discussion: @sharondubois_, @sharondubois_, @sharondubois_, @dr_teng, @reaganwhitakerr, @benthomasnz, @naked_therapist, @bibliovoreorc, @elfsternberg, @vextape, @lunchjournals, @erikaalpert and @ccalmasmr

Sigal Samuel / The Atlantic:

How citizen journalists and scholars are using the internet to find Uighur internment and “reeducation” camps and expose the persecution of minorities in China — The country is using high-tech methods of repression, but even the simplest tech may be enough to expose it.

Discussion: @ambkcsingh and @sigalsamuel

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