The company, which will begin operating in May, plans to have around 550 journalists covering entertainment, politics and sports within a year.
Category: Newspapers
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Bernadette Carey Smith, Black Reporter in Mostly White Newsrooms, Dies at 83
She was one of the first Black female journalists at The New York Times and The Washington Post. The Times put her on the staff of a women’s news section.
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Newspapers Drop ‘Dilbert’ Comic After Creator’s Rant About Black ‘Hate Groups’
Scott Adams, who created the syndicated comic strip, also said that white people should “get the hell away from Black people,” prompting criticism from editors across the country.
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Joyce Dopkeen, Barrier-Breaking News Photographer, Dies at 80
In 1973, she was the first woman hired by The New York Times to be a full-time staff photographer.
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Gwen Knapp, Sportswriter Who Looked at the Big Picture, Dies at 61
She was well known in the San Francisco area for focusing on subjects like racism, sexism and drugs, in columns that sometimes angered sports stars.
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Former CNN Digital Chief Named Publisher of Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Andrew Morse, who was an architect of CNN+, plans to team up with Axios to grow the newspaper’s digital business
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Local News Outlet in New York Faces New Hurdle: A Declined Visa
Phil O’Brien, a Briton who has run a Manhattan publication for several years, had his visa denied because immigration officials deemed his struggling business “marginal.”
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The Villain So Far in ‘Harry & Meghan’? Not the Royal Family.
Harry and Meghan focused their ire in their Netflix documentary on the tabloids they say have hounded them out of remorseless greed and scarcely concealed racism.
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Can News Be Made Into a Sustainable Business?
For a DealBook task force, a lack of trust, political polarization and a troubled business model are among the news industry’s challenges.
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New York Times Union Announces One-Day Strike
Negotiators for the company and the union, which represents most of the newsroom, have failed to come to an agreement on salaries, health and retirement benefits, and other issues.
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Boston Globe Names NPR’s Nancy Barnes Its Next Editor
Ms. Barnes, senior vice president for news and editorial director at NPR, has also held leadership roles at the Houston Chronicle and Minneapolis Star Tribune.