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Wednesday, March 22, 2017
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What We’re Reading
The Huffington Post / Michael Calderone
Trump escaped ‘wiretap’ and Russia questions in local TV interviews →
"The White House made it clear the president would not answer questions about wiretapping or the investigation into Russia's role in the election," Lawrence Smith, a reporter at Louisville Fox affiliate WDRB in Louisville, said on air. "So we stuck to issues most directly important to Kentucky."
TheStreet / Ken Doctor
Tronc investor Soon-Shiong ups stake again, as battle with Ferro crescendoes →
“On Monday, Tronc Vice Chairman, would-be Friend of Trump, Los Angeles Lakers part-owner and anti-cancer crusader Patrick Soon-Shiong bought another 2 million shares of America’s second-largest public newspaper company. Soon-Shiong paid $30 million to HG Vora, a $15 a share payday for the activist investment firm, which pocketed the same per-share price from Tronc Chairman Michael Ferro’s Merrick Media in December as he bought 2.5 million shares of its Tronc stake.”
Digiday / Brian Morrissey
25 percent of Gizmodo Media Group’s revenue is from commerce →
“There's a reason The New York Times spent $30 million on Wirecutter.”
BuzzFeed / Steven Perlberg
Guardian announces layoffs after $250,000 Kushner lease debacle →
“Newsroom staffers on Monday were told that the office mishap cost the company $250,000, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Guardian ditched the deal after reporters complained that their sources would not feel comfortable leaking to journalists at a news outlet housed in a building with ties to the president's son-in-law. Jared Kushner, a White House senior adviser, has divested his investment in many of his family's holdings and resigned as the company's CEO.”
Recode / Kurt Wagner
LinkedIn is rolling out a trending topics section →
“It’s rolling out a ‘Trending’ topics feed, a new section of the app where users can find a collection of recent news stories and accompanying user posts that are personalized based on their interests and profession. LinkedIn will be using a combination of human editors and computer algorithms to detect important storylines.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
Almost 20% of digital ad spending in 2016 may have been fraud or invalid traffic →
“A new study estimates that $12.48 billion of ad spending in 2016 was fraud, or was the result in invalid traffic, which is double the earlier $7.2 billion industry estimate. These ads were mostly either never actually viewed by humans or not properly loaded for a person to accurately view them.”