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The New York Daily News has eliminated the position of sports editor. Eric Barrow, a 15-year veteran of the paper who had served in the position since January 2016, was fired Jan. 3. In a memo to his staff, Barrow said that he was not being replaced. Instead, according to the New York Post, the department will now be run by Kyle Wagner, who is taking on the title of director of digital audience development for sports. Wagner comes to the Daily News from FiveThirtyEight, where he was senior editor, sports. Barrow had reportedly been a vocal critic of the decision by Tribune Publishing, owner of the paper, to operate all the company’s papers from one design and copy desk, located in Chicago. That move meant that the Daily News was often unable to get stories and scores from late games into the paper. Poynter cites sources that say the Daily News is currently losing between $20 million and $30 million per year.
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Several staffers from The Weekly Standard, which ceased publication last month, have been enlisted to work for The Bulwark, a conservative news aggregator site. The Bulwark is run by the Defending Democracy Together Institute, a non-profit organization helmed by former Weekly Standard editor-at-large William Kristol. The Wrap reports that radio host and MSNBC contributor Charlie Sykes will serve as the site’s new editor-in-chief and that former Weekly Standard writers, including Jonathan V. Last, Hannah Yoest, Ben Parker and Rachel Larimore, are coming on board. “TheBulwark.com will transform from an aggregator of news and opinion from a right-wing bent into a website that provides original opinion items, analysis and reporting,” Jim Swift, a former Weekly Standard deputy online editor who has joined The Bulwark, told The Wrap. The site’s “About Us” page says the mission of the revamped site is to “be a forum for rational, principled, fact-based conservative commentary.”
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PWxyz, the parent company of Publishers Weekly, has acquired online magazine the Millions, along with its website TheMillions.com. The Millions offers coverage of books, arts and culture aimed at a consumer audience. It was founded in 2003 by Max Magee. Although Magee will no longer be involved with the Millions, its writing and editorial staffs will remain largely unchanged. Adam Boretz, a PW editor who had also served as an associate editor at the Millions, will now be editor of the Millions, as well as being promoted to senior editor at PW. PW will focus on beefing up the magazine's advertising efforts under the direction of publisher Cevin Bryerman.
Michael Kaminer, who was responsible for the Observer’s “Power List” for the past 13 years, has cut ties with the publication... The New York Times Company continues the march toward its goal of 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is providing more than $6 million in funding to eight organizations working to address the challenges local news and information environments face along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Conservative outlets Fox News, Newsmax and the Daily Caller are holding back from signing Pete Hegseth’s edict restricting press access in the Pentagon... CBS News sees the first executive departure of the Bari Weiss era as head of standards and practices Claudia Milne exits... Indiana University shuts down the print version of The Indiana Daily Student.
Rothschild family plans to unload 26.7 percent stake in The Economist... STAT, a digital media company that focuses the life sciences, brings back Damian Garde, who anchored its biotech newsletter and podcast from 2016 to 2024... High Times officially resumes print publication (following its 2024 shutdown) with the release of a limited-edition, collectible 50th anniversary issue. 
CBS News is set to hand over its reins to The Free Press co-founder Bari Weiss as Paramount acquires her site for $155M... C-SPAN comes on board as an official media partner of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, which is charged by Congress to lead the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence... A new Gallup survey says that the level of trust that US audiences have in the media has hit a new low.
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has named Kenneth Weinstein, former head of the conservative Hudson Institute, as ombudsman for CBS News.
