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GateHouse Media owner New Media Investment Group to acquire Gannett in a deal worth $1.38B; together the companies operate more than 260 daily news operations — GateHouse Media owner and USA TODAY owner Gannett have agreed to merge in a deal aimed at cutting overlapping costs and enabling …
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GateHouse's Gannett acquisition, billed as about increasing efficiency, will likely lead to syndicated USA Today-style stories over local reporting and job cuts — Gannett and GateHouse announce agreement to try to save costs amid steep newspaper industry decline.
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Rupert Murdoch's New York Post urges Trump to ban assault weapons with blunt cover and editorial — New York (CNN Business)One of President Trump's favorite newspapers, the New York Post, is delivering him a message. — “President Trump, America is scared and we need bold action,” Monday's front page reads.
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Despite the fact that the El Paso shooter's language echoed Trump's, Trump blames the media for contributing “anger and rage that has built up over many years” — - President Donald Trump on Monday accused the media of inciting anger in the US after gunmen killed a combined 29 people in two shootings in Texas and Ohio.

Editor of the Denver's Rocky Mountain News during the Columbine shootings laments journalism's apparent inability to change the pattern of mass shootings — No. Not again. — That's how I felt on Saturday when I heard the terrible news from El Paso and then again on Sunday morning when Dayton added a second blow.
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Journalists must change how they report on mass shootings by shining a light on solutions, insisting on more accountability from officials, and taking a side — Sadly, we in the news media know just how to do it. — When a mass shooting happens, even when it happens twice in a 24-hour period …
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US media outlets normalize racism by publicizing racist ideas presumed to belong to others, whose fears are assumed to be reasonable or at least understandable — Within last week's story of how Ronald Reagan made a racist phone call to Richard Nixon, there was a second story—a parable …

James Murdoch's Lupa Systems fund leads group buying a controlling stake in Tribeca Enterprises, the media company responsible for Tribeca Film Festival — - Madison Square Garden selling stake to focus on Vegas venue — New owners plan to expand company under existing management
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Knight Foundation donates $1.2M to the Maynard Institute to create a program dedicated to bettering newsroom diversity, starting with a six-month pilot program — In-depth initiative will help newsrooms make structural changes in business models and workplace culture
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The Athletic is spending £10M aiming to attract more than 100K in the UK, where it launched Monday; the site has raised more than $90M from investors — The Athletic, the ad-free US sports journalism site that has been hoovering up Britain's top football reporters …
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Cesar Sayoc, who mailed explosive devices to Trump's critics and media organizations after reading internet conspiracies, sentenced to 20 years in prison — NEW YORK — Cesar Sayoc, the Florida man who mailed explosive devices to prominent Democrats and media figures was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison.
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In remembrance of Don Banks, an influential NFL reporter and the “conscience” of the league, who died Sunday at age 56 — INDIANAPOLIS — I wrote the obit for a friend Sunday night in an airport. An airport bar, to be exact, and it seemed right.