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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Johnston Press, which owns almost 200 regional newspapers and has spent 18 months trying to refinance its £220M debt, has put itself up for sale — Struggling publisher seeks offers after lengthy refinancing talks with bondholders — Johnston Press, which has titles include the i newspaper …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Washington Post fact-checks Trump's USA Today opinion piece on Medicare-For-All, finds most sentences contain a “misleading statement or falsehood” — President Trump wrote an opinion article for USA Today on Oct. 10 regarding proposals to expand Medicare to all Americans …
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Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
USA Today editorial page editor Bill Sternberg says Trump's healthcare op-ed was fact-checked and Trump was given wide leeway to express his opinion — USA Today defended the column, saying it had fact-checked the president's claims. — USA Today on Wednesday published an opinion piece credited …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Civil Media has had difficulty raising money with a weak demand for its blockchain tokens and lack of major news partners — Startup is falling short of its funding goal, as major news organizations pass on partnerships and one of its co-founders criticizes company
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Manhattan prosecutors charge IBT and Christian Media with defrauding lenders of ~$10M to keep Newsweek afloat — Prosecutors say $10 million scheme provided funds to help keep company afloat — Newsweek's former parent company has been charged by Manhattan prosecutors with carrying …
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New York Times:
Walmart is creating a joint venture with New York-based “interactive storytelling” startup Eko; sources say the investment with Eko is worth $250M — Walmart is going Hollywood. — The world's largest retailer, in a constant battle with its rival Amazon …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Following Jamal Khashoggi murder, the NYT withdraws as a media partner of Saudi Arabia's investment conference as CNN, CNBC, and FBN reevaluate the matter — The headline on a recent story in The Post confirms the enormity of the ongoing international crisis for Saudi Arabia: “Saudis are said to have lain in wait for Jamal Khashoggi.”
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi was working on launching a nonprofit, pro-democracy advocacy organization when he disappeared
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Study: GDPR reduced the number of ad trackers used on EU visitors; Google may have slightly increased its European marketshare as smaller ad entities lose reach — An analysis of the impact of Europe's new data protection framework, GDPR, on the adtech industry suggests the regulation …
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New York Magazine:
New York Mag relaunches Intelligencer, bringing together the Daily Intelligencer and Select All brands with expanded coverage and 2038, a limited-run podcast — Welcome to the new Intelligencer. We're adding a lot of things to the site today, and we'll get to those in a minute …
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Dani Deahl / The Verge:
Genius partners with Apple Music to show lyrics and annotations for thousands of selected songs and makes Apple Music the official music player for Genius — Music encyclopedia and lyrics database Genius has announced a partnership with Apple Music, pairing the website's lyrics with songs.
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Nate Rau / The Tennessean:
Trump signs the Music Modernization Act that makes it easier for rights holders to get paid when their music is streamed online — President Donald Trump signs landmark Music Modernization Act into law Courtesy of White House YouTube — President Donald Trump signed the Music Modernization Act …
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Jessica Pels named editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and Redbook goes digital-only as of January as Hearst undergoes editorial restructuring that will cut 35 jobs — Jessica Pels has been elevated to editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan as part of a sweeping editorial shake-up at the Hearst magazine empire.
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
At the New Establishment Summit, NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger says, “the time will come when this is a digital-only news organization” — “Obviously, Trump is the biggest story out there right now, and of our lifetime possibly, so people are turning to the news to make sense of the world," said Perpich.
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Roy Trakin / Variety:
IFPI report: 86% of survey respondents stream music, 57% of 16-24 year olds use a paid service; 38% of consumers obtain music through piracy — The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the trade body for the worldwide record business, released its Music Consumer Insight Report …
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