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Newsday has sold amNewYork, its free commuter paper, to Schneps Media, according to the New York Post. Schneps started life as the Queens Courier in 1985, and now operates 33 weekly newspapers and 28 magazines in the New York metropolitan area including the Bayside Times, The Villager and Long Island Press. Schneps Media CEO Joshua Schneps told the Post that the company intends to keep on publishing the paper. amNewYork was launched in 2003, and a statement from Newsday says that it is Manhattan’s highest daily circulation newspaper and has almost 1 million unique visitors to its website each month. Newsday publisher Debby Krenek said that the company will now double down on its Long Island focus as well as continuing to expand its multimedia products and platforms.
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| Todd Starnes |
Fox News has did not renew the contract of radio host and commentator Todd Starnes in the wake of comments he made about Democrats on his radio program Sept. 30, according to a report on The Wrap. During an interview with right-wing pastor Robert Jeffries, Starnes said he has no doubt that Democrats “want to especially go after and target Christians in America.” He also agreed with Jeffries’ assertion that Democrats may possibly worship the demon god Moloch. A source with knowledge of the situation said that the termination of Starnes' contract was in the works well in advance of those comments. Starnes is also known for having told Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, to take a “one-way plane ticket back to whatever third-world hellhole you came from.” In addition to his Fox News Radio show and “Starnes Country,” a program that appeared on the streaming service Fox Nation, Starnes contributed opinion pieces to FoxNews.com. His radio show "Fox News & Commentary" will be replaced by "Fox Across America.”
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| Rich Barbieri |
Rich Barbieri is joining the New York Times as deputy business editor. Barbieri comes to the Times from CNN, where he has been since 2007, most recently serving as executive editor of CNN Business. In that position, he oversaw a global team of about 50 reporters and editors covering companies, economics, technology, media, markets and the workplace. Before his stint at CNN, he was managing editor at Crain’s New York Business. Barbieri has also been news editor for AP’s New York City bureau and has worked as an editor and writer at American Lawyer Media. His remit at the Times is to help the paper attain its digital and storytelling goals as it expands its business coverage.
Underscore Media, a new creator-led media venture dedicated to New York sports, is built around three established New York sports personalities, Sal Licata, Jimmy Traina, and John Jastremski.
McClatchy, which owns 29 daily papers across 14 states (including The Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee and Kansas City Star), launches a wave of layoffs that extends to at least 13 of those papers... The Toledo Blade, which was founded in 1835, is set to shut down on Dec. 31, unless owner Block Communications manages to find a buyer for it... A bill awaiting approval by California governor Gavin Newsom would give local newsrooms a boost. 
Fox News Media issued a pretty sparse release to announce the departure of one of its stars. “Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media,” it reads.
Brunswick Group partner John Simons has joined CNN as senior director of business & media. He held top jobs at Time and the Wall Street Journal.
WNET, the nation’s largest public media company, names Edward O’Keefe its next president and CEO, effective September 21. O’Keefe succeeds Neal Shapiro, who becomes president emeritus and will retire at the end of the year... The Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, which would empower news publishers and other content providers to defend themselves by mandating transparency for all bots crawling their sites, in introduced in the House by Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC)... Google gets socked by European Union regulators with a $1 billion fine for using the platform’s dominance as a search engine to illegally undercut competition.
