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9:30 AM ET, November 5, 2019

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Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune:
IRS approves nonprofit status for Salt Lake Tribune, making it the first legacy paper to make the switch; ownership to be shifted to a public board of directors  —  The Salt Lake Tribune is now a nonprofit, an unprecedented transformation for a legacy U.S. daily that is intended to bolster …
Aaron Calvin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporter who was fired after infamous Carson King profile for the Des Moines Register argues Gannett scapegoated him to preserve its bottom line amid backlash  —  During the seven months I worked as a trending-news reporter for the Des Moines Register, it was my job to write about viral news …
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
The Texas Tribune shuts TribTalk, its sister site of contributed opinion pieces and sponsored content, after five years, citing little traffic and social shares  —  “It was a good sandbox to see if there's a market for these sponsored content pieces, to see how we'd treat them in a design and workflow way …
Frank Pallotta / CNN:
Netflix added a button to skip the politics segments of Seth Meyers' new comedy special “Lobby Baby”, following a request from the comedian  —  New York (CNN Business)Seth Meyers thinks some comedy fans may be burned out by DC politics, so he asked Netflix (NFLX) to help him do something about it.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Media's acquisition of Refinery29 has closed; Refinery29's co-CEOs Philippe von Borries and Justin Stefano will no longer be involved in daily management  —  Vice Media Group closed its acquisition of Refinery29 — and Refinery29's co-CEOs and co-founders Philippe von Borries …
Discussion: The Wrap, Adweek and Deadline
Louisa Thomas / New Yorker:
G/O's demand that Deadspin stick to sports is foolish, as much of what happens in sports is a result of power, money, and the culture in which athletes operate  —  Two years ago, Sports Illustrated, which had been a weekly magazine for decades, began publishing just thirty-nine issues a year.
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István / Kinja Changelog:
G/O Media says it's reevaluating options to maintain Kinja user pages after blowback to an announcement that it would discontinue them and delete content
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
BBC says it will establish a new standalone non-profit body to run the Local News Partnership, which will be expanded to cover local councils and NHS trusts  —  The BBC has laid out plans to expand its local democracy reporting service, recruiting new reporters to cover local councils …
George P. Slefo / Ad Age:
Meredith sells the remaining 60% stake in the ad tech company Viant, that it acquired when it bought Time, to Viant's co-founders who owned 40%  —  The news comes roughly two weeks after Roku said it was buying DSP Dataxu  —  Viant has acquired itself from media publishing powerhouse Meredith, the companies said Monday.
Michael J. Socolow / Politico:
Journalists shouldn't use TikTok, as doing so promotes a platform that is relying on its users' ignorance of its history of censorship and privacy invasion  —  Journalists should not be promoting a platform with a documented history of political censorship.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CBS Interactive President and COO Marc DeBevoise to become CEO, taking over from Jim Lanzone, who is leaving after nine years to join Benchmark Capital  —  CBS Interactive is undergoing a CEO transition as Marc DeBevoise takes the reins from Jim Lanzone, who is leaving after nine years …
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Aspiring journalists, learning to be professionals at struggling college papers, are experiencing hardships like those affecting their peers at national pubs  —  SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — The Daily Orange isn't daily anymore.  —  The student-run newspaper that has covered Syracuse University since 1903 …
Alex Williams / New York Times:
Post #MeToo, signs emerge that glossy men's mags are backpedaling from the formula that kept them at the pinnacle of publishing for a half-century  —  The boys' club of glossy publishing confronts an identity crisis.  —  Imagine if Kodak had answered the threat of digital photography by pivoting from film to outdoor grills.
Discussion: @ericacbarnett
Angelica Mari / ZDNet:
Brazil has the second highest podcast consumption in the world, after the US, with 40% of its internet users having listened to a podcast, per local survey  —  The country is the second largest market for the format in the world, and players such as Spotify want to capitalize on that growth.
 
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Comcast unveils Effectv, a rebranding of its Spotlight ad sales division, with new products to help deliver TV ads that are addressable at the household level
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