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The Wall Street Journal is pulling the plug on its Greater New York section, which focused on local news, effective July 9. The section, which currently employs eight journalists, was launched in 2010. Those employees will “have the chance to apply for other jobs,” according to an internal memo from Journal editor-in-chief Matt Murray. The WSJ is also launching two new sections. Life & Work, which it says will be staffed by more than 60 journalists, will focus on education for personal lifestyle choices related to the economy, and “Speed & Trending,” which will cover breaking news.
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Condé Nast agrees to a contract with unionized employees at The New Yorker, tech platform Ars Technica and music website Pitchfork, ending over two years of negotiations and averting a threatened strike. In addition to placing a cap on healthcare cost increases and formalizing a 40-hour workweek, the contract also mandates that employees can only be fired for cause. The contract is the first labor agreement made by Condé Nast in the company’s history. At The New Yorker, it covers copy editors, fact checkers and designers, but not the magazine’s writers. Negotiations are still going on between Condé Nast and the unionized employees at Wired.
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Former first son-in-law Jared Kushner has signed a book deal with Broadside Books, a conservative imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Broadside says that Kushner’s book, which is scheduled to be published in early 2022, “will be the definitive, thorough recounting of the administration—and the truth about what happened behind closed doors.” It also noted that Kushner was a key player "in the administration's most significant accomplishments." The New York Post’s Keith Kelly writes that “more importantly, perhaps, for a publisher, [Kushner] and first daughter Ivanka Trump were also reportedly urging Trump as early as November 9 to concede the 2020 election to Joe Biden.” Kushner is just one of several Trump administration vets writing books. Ex-vice president Mike Pence is working with Simon & Schuster, and Post Hill Press planning to release former ex-press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s “For Such a Time as This: My Faith Journey through the White House and Beyond” in December.
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach an agreement that will make a set of more than 200 animated, masked and creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars available for use by Sora, OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform... CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has moved Tony Dokoupil, a co-host at “CBS Mornings” since 2019, into the anchor’s chair for the “CBS Evening News,” following the departure of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois... USA Today editor-in-chief Caren Bohan has left the paper.
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.
