The Amazon founder, who purchased The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, has taken a more active role in the paper’s operations this year.
Category: Newspapers
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Departures at Stanford and Northwestern Put Student Journalists in Spotlight
The president of Stanford and the head football coach at Northwestern left their positions after being scrutinized in campus newspapers.
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Carlo Vittorini, Publisher Who Lifted Parade Magazine, Dies at 94
He spent two decades guiding a popular newspaper Sunday supplement as its revenue and circulation grew, reaching nearly 40 million readers at one point.
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Nonprofit Buys 22 Newspapers in Maine
The National Trust for Local News will take over five of the six daily papers in the state and 17 weeklies.
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The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department
Coverage of games, players and leagues will now primarily come from The Athletic, the sports website that the company bought last year.
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BBC Suspends Male Staff Member After Report of Payments for Sexual Images
A report in The Sun newspaper said that an unnamed male presenter at the BBC had paid tens of thousands of pounds to a teenager in exchange for “sexually explicit photographs.”
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A Top U.K. Newspaper Explores Its Ties to Slavery, and Britain’s
In a multimedia series, The Guardian becomes the latest British institution to confront — and apologize for — its role in the slave trade.
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A French Newsroom on Strike After Appointment of ‘Far-Right’ Editor
Journalists at a leading newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche, have walked out over fears that Geoffroy Lejeune will turn it into a ring-wing platform.
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Gannett Sues Google, Accusing It of Dominating the Ad Market
The country’s largest newspaper chain said that Google’s power over ad technology has contributed to the decline of local news.
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How Local Officials Seek Revenge on Their Hometown Newspapers
When coverage upsets them, towns and counties are revoking newspapers’ lucrative contracts to print public notices.
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Fred Ryan, Publisher of Washington Post, to Step Down
He said that Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, would name a new leader later on Monday.
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Los Angeles Times to Cut More Than 10% of Newsroom
“The restructuring stems from the same persistent economic headwinds facing news media across the country,” the executive editor said in an email to the staff.