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Thanks for subscribing to Media Trends. Tell friends to follow along by signing up here. Situational awareness: After years of ridicule, Tronc may finally change its name back to Tribune Publishing, according to The Chicago Tribune. The newspaper publishing company has faced a year of high-profile turmoil, including disappointing revenues, union fights, layoffs and sexual harassment allegations. On Monday, the…
Racked, the retail website that was acquired by Vox Media in 2013, is going to be converted from a standalone website into a vertical that will live within Vox (the website), Axios has learned. Why it matters: The move suggests that Vox Media feels that some of its eight standalone brands may be easier to…
Several major acquisitions have helped Google and Facebook on their way to unprecedented dominance over the advertising supply chain, antitrust analysts argued at the Open Markets Institute forum in Washington last week. Why it matters: Many blame these two companies for absorbing the majority of ad revenue that would’ve gone to traditional media. Show…
A U.S. Border Patrol spotlight shines on a mother and son from Honduras near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Tex. (John Moore/Getty Images) The trick is forgetting they are children. If you remember that they are children, you will not be able to go on with any of this. If you remember when you were a…
ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” .article-header Leer en Español. The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children, separated from their parents one day last week by immigration authorities at the border,…
Tronc, one of the most lambasted corporate name changes of the digital era, is going to return to its original name, Tribune Publishing. An insider said that the name change for the parent company of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News was awaiting the completion of the spinoff of the Los Angeles Times,…
You’ve likely seen the above photo of two fresh-faced and hoodie-clad Asian women on your Facebook feed, your email inbox, your Google searches, this Yahoo article — wherever your web browsing may take you. EverQuote, the company advertising this photo, is a legitimate company based in Cambridge, Mass., that helps you choose the best car…
It’s late on a Friday afternoon in March, and I’m sitting across from Stephen Miller in his spacious, sunlit West Wing office, trying to figure out whether he’s trolling me. To hear more feature stories, see our full list or get the Audm iPhone app. This is no easy task. A provocateur as skilled as…
It was immediately clear that change was afoot in Dallas. I’ve attended the annual gatherings of the Southern Baptist Convention dozens of times, but walking around the convention center this week, I was struck by how unfamiliar it all felt. When I was a child, the convention hall was a sea of silver combovers and…
The U.S. is reportedly planning to pull out of the United Nations Human Rights Council after clashes over key issues such as Israel. A source told Reuters that the move could be “imminent.” The council will begin a three-week session in Geneva on Monday. Other diplomatic sources told Reuters that the withdrawal was “not a question of…