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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: BuzzFeed and Group Nine have discussed merger; companies have ties via BuzzFeed's chairman Ken Lerer and his son Ben Lerer, CEO at Group Nine — BuzzFeed is cutting costs and getting leaner, but it still wants to get bigger — by exploring a deal with Group Nine.
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New York Post, New York Times, @_alastair, @alex, @brianstelter and @_alastair, more at Techmeme »
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Splinter:
Some BuzzFeed staffers are reporting their own layoffs on Twitter as information trickles out: cuts hit BuzzFeed Spain bureau, national news team, and more — It's another terrible week to work in media. — After the news hit yesterday that BuzzFeed, HuffPost, and Gannett would slash their workforces …
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Rafi Schwartz / Splinter:
A source shared BuzzFeed News Slack messages in which staffers criticized the CEO for the handling of layoffs; 40+ BuzzFeed News staffers were fired on Friday
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NPR, @mathewi, @techworkersco, @mskellymhayes, @attackerman and The Daily Beast
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
In email to staff, CEO Jonah Peretti says BuzzFeed will make a 15% overall reduction in headcount next week, will share more about its future structure soon
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Washington Post:
Johns Hopkins is buying the building that houses the Newseum for $327.5M as the latter seeks a firmer financial footing — The $372.5 million deal will give the university a prime Pennsylvania Avenue address for graduate programs in international relations and other fields.
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Baltimore Sun, NPR, TVNewser, The Guardian, @johnkelly, @caseymcdermott, @mccanner, @briankosh, @waltmossberg, @katielannan, @bfquinn and NB Blog
Science:
Study of registered US voters in 2016: ~6% of all news consumed on Twitter was fake news, 1% of users were exposed to 80% of it and 0.1% shared 80% thereof — There was a proliferation of fake news during the 2016 election cycle. Grinberg et al. analyzed Twitter data by matching Twitter accounts …
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Nieman Lab, @davidlazer, @noupside, VentureBeat, Washington Post and The Hill, more at Techmeme »
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
YouTube says it will no longer suggest videos with “borderline content” or those that “misinform users in a harmful way” even if they don't violate guidelines — SAN FRANCISCO — Whether it is a video claiming the earth is flat or the moon landing was faked …
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YouTube Blog, The Wrap, @cwarzel, Business Insider, @daiwaka, Mashable, TheBlaze, Engadget, @fcain, @cwarzel and @nealmohan, more at Techmeme »
Engaged Journalism Accelerator:
A look at the eight latest media outlets to receive funding from the Engaged Journalism Accelerator program run by the European Journalism Centre — Engaged Journalism Accelerator director Kathryn Geels introduces our eight newest grantees, taking the total number of funded news organisations …
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Nieman Lab, Journalism.co.uk, @benwhitelaw, @vivian and Journalism.co.uk
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources: The Players Tribune lays off eight employees; the company had about 85 US full-time staffers as of April 2018 — The Players' Tribune, the athlete-centric sports publisher from Derek Jeter, has laid off eight employees as the company looks to shift its business strategy going forward …
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@frntofficesport and Variety
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources: WarnerMedia Investments, which had invested in Mic, Maker Studios, and Mashable under Time Warner, is no longer its own corporate entity — Prior to becoming WarnerMedia, Time Warner was one of the most prominent investors in digital media and technology companies.
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Dallas Business Journal, Top Digital Journal News, @rafat and @petersterne
Joshua Carroll / Columbia Journalism Review:
After Reuters covered Thai government negligence, it ran a native ad whitewashing the state's actions, raising questions about whose ads outlets should publish — When Aubrey Belford started work as a special correspondent for Reuters in Southeast Asia, his new colleagues in the Bangkok bureau …
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Talking Biz News and @lionpubs
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
CNN describes the clues from events at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, that led them to send a team to capture the early morning arrest of Roger Stone — (CNN)The rare, dramatic video from CNN Friday capturing the early morning FBI raid of longtime Donald Trump confidante Roger Stone's Florida home …
Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac:
Apple's first beta of iOS 12.2 for developers includes images of a magazine subscription service, rumored since Apple first bought Texture — There have been rumors about an Apple News subscription service since mid-2018, starting with a report by Bloomberg that said Apple was planing …
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The Verge, MacRumors, Mashable and BGR, more at Techmeme »
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Mail Online's Q1 revenue is up 14% YoY, while ad revenue rose 11% YoY; ad revenue across Mail titles rose 4% with digital ad growth offsetting print ad decline — Mail titles owner, the Daily Mail and General Trust, has reported revenue growth of 2 per cent year-on-year for the first quarter of 2019.
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