Mediagazer: Sources: SoftBank and KKR plan to invest in Jinri Toutiao parent company Bytedance as it seeks to raise $3B in its latest round at a valuation of ~$75B (Wall Street Journal)

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The effects of the media pursuit of Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford show the urgent need for journalists to examine their own behavior and ethics — Professor Christine Blasey Ford testifies on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images)

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Spotify confirms test where it sent emails to some of its Premium for Family users asking them to prove their home address via GPS or lose access to the plan — Spotify recently sent an email to some of its “Premium for Family” account users in the US that asked them to confirm their home address through GPS data.

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Print readers don't migrate online and read much more content than online ones, according to a study of The Independent's audience after it went online-only — A new study of The Independent's 2016 shift to online-only finds that its print readership didn't move to digital when the newspaper did.

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Wall Street Journal:

Sources: SoftBank and KKR plan to invest in Jinri Toutiao parent company Bytedance as it seeks to raise $3B in its latest round at a valuation of ~$75B — Bytedance, owner of China's most popular news-aggregation app, is looking to raise $3 billion — Global investors including SoftBank …

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H.G. Watson / JSource:

Refinery29 is launching a Canadian version headquartered in Toronto in October with former Chatelaine editor-in-chief Carley Fortune as executive editor — Former Chatelaine editor-in-chief Carley Fortune will lead the Canadian edition. — Another American outlet is making inroads into Canada.

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Jason Wilson / The Guardian:

Idaho neo-Nazi is sending threatening robocalls and letters to publisher of alt-weekly Sandpoint Reader and residents describing Reader journalist as a “cancer” — Sandpoint Reader is target of new calls describing publisher as ‘cancer’ that ‘needs to be burned out’

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Filing: Murdochs' compensation for fiscal year soars with Disney deal; $49.2M for Rupert, up 68% YoY, $50.7M for Lachlan, up 146%, $50.3M for James, up 148% — The entertainment conglomerate, which has agreed to sell large parts to Walt Disney for $71.3 billion, shows increased stock awards …

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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Proxy statement: compensation for top executives at Meredith rises over 30% this year after company's purchase of Time Inc. — Meredith top brass, who have laid off hundreds since snapping up Time Inc. for $2.8 billion in January, are rewarding themselves generously with compensation jumping over 30 percent this year.

Discussion: @jeremymbarr

Lauren Johnson / Business Insider:

Skift buys 14-year-old newsletter Airline Weekly, launches its own newsletter on wellness, announces a nonprofit arm, Skift Foundation, and expands into Asia — - Founder and CEO Rafat Ali said that with the new vertical the company now covers the “business of leisure.”

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