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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Meredith has sold the Sports Illustrated IP rights to Authentic Brands for $110M, will pay a licensing fee to run editorial operations for at least two years — Sports Illustrated over the decades has chronicled stellar match-ups, blow-outs, squeakers, sudden deaths and photo finishes.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Meredith Corp, which put Time, Fortune, Money, and Sports Illustrated up for sale to focus on lifestyle and celebrity magazines — Meredith tries to navigate a collapsing business by dropping news-driven prestige titles in favor of lifestyle and celebrity magazines like Happy Paws and People
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@wsj and @niemanreports
Kara Swisher / New York Times:
Refusal to remove fake Pelosi video shows how Facebook confuses simple mistakes with deliberate deception, avoiding its responsibility as a key news distributor — This latest doctored video proves that Facebook as we knew it is over. — Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.
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Variety:
Netflix says it would rethink its “entire investment in Georgia”, where film production costs are low, if the state's attack on abortion rights becomes law — Many of Hollywood's most powerful content companies have maintained a deafening silence on the raging abortion legislation …
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Business Insider, The Wrap, The A.V. Club, The Week, The Hill, @elainelow, @elainelow, @elainelow, @elainelow, The Playlist, KTLA, Vanity Fair and IndieWire
Li Jin / Andreessen Horowitz:
The state of the podcasting industry in 2019, including key trends and monetization strategies of audio apps in China — In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen …
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Nieman Lab, @definefinancial, @trengriffin, @patricialclark, @kartvee, @ljin18, @mwmoretti and @cheriehu42
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Four German publishing groups, Axel Springer, Funke Mediengruppe, RTL, and Gruner+Jahr, will sell their combined ad inventory in an effort to combat Big Tech — Four big German publishing groups are collaborating in order to fight the market power of tech platforms.
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World News Publishing Focus … and @raju
Yelena Dzhanova / New York Magazine:
Naomi Wolf cites a known internet hoaxer after BBC Radio's Matthew Sweet uncovers a serious flaw in her forthcoming book, Outrages — In the pantheon of nightmares, somewhere between “falling into an endless pit” and “back at high school but naked” is “going on national radio and learning …
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
Trump cites a tweet by NYU professor Ian Bremmer, in which Bremmer faked a Trump quote as a joke, to argue that libel laws need to change — President Donald Trump on Monday slammed pundit, journalist, and New York University professor Ian Bremmer for publishing a “completely ludicrous quote” that he attributed to him.
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Matthew Wall / BBC:
Since GDPR, Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it has launched 19 cross-border investigations, 11 of which focus on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram — Social media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp have been the subject of most data investigations in the Republic …
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MediaPost, Telecompaper, Data Protection Commission, Fortune, @jason_kint and Axios, more at Techmeme »
Peter S. Green / New York Times:
Czech energy magnate Daniel Kretinsky buys a 13% stake in Le Monde and its sibling publications; some in the newsroom are troubled by the deal's opaqueness — PARIS — Blaise Gauquelin, the Central Europe correspondent for Le Monde, called his editor at the paper's Paris headquarters …
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@jimwindolf and @nytimes
Maria Danilova / Columbia Journalism Review:
How independent Russian journalists use online platforms such as YouTube, Meduza, and the Insider to report on problems the government doesn't want exposed — On March 25, 2018, a massive fire tore through a busy four-story shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo.
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@cpj_eurasia and @cjr
Glenn Greenwald / Washington Post:
By indicting Assange and arguing the First Amendment only applies to designated journalists, the Trump admin created a blueprint for criminalizing journalism — The First Amendment is meaningless if it only protects people the government recognizes as journalists
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@howardkurtz, @royeidelson, @ggreenwald, @f_obermaier, @ggreenwald and @trevortimm
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