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Max Willens / Digiday: Bustle Digital Group acquires Inverse, a science- and geek culture-focused site, which was founded by Bleacher Report cofounder Dave Nemetz and had raised $6M -
Maxwell Strachan / HuffPost: Lessons from the fall of Mic, the millennial-focused, Facebook-dependent site which left staffers exhausted, distrustful of leadership, and financially insecure -
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: Profile of Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, who has donated $100M+ to charities and who champions “vigorous, trustworthy journalism” and women in tech -
Om Malik: Media companies keep playing a blame game, pointing to tech companies for their failures, but sales execs focused on short-term thinking should take the blame -
Sasha Koren / Times Open: NYT R&D debuts The News Provenance Project to explore product design and user-facing tools to make content origins clearer to audiences and fight misinformation -
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: Jodi Rudoren, a veteran editor and reporter at The New York Times, has been named editor in chief of The Forward, a 122-year-old Jewish publication -
Erik Wemple / Washington Post: In a court document, lawyers for Cesar Sayoc, who pleaded guilty to mailing explosives to 13 people, say Fox & Friends and Hannity helped radicalize Sayoc -
Alexa O'Brien / Defense One: Coverage of civilian casualties in the war on ISIS has been largely absent due to low editorial priority and a perceived lack of public interest -
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter: Andrew Griffith, who is COO and CFO of European pay-TV giant Sky, is leaving to serve as new UK PM Boris Johnson's senior business adviser, starting Wednesday -
Lucinda Southern / Digiday: News UK halved the number of podcasts it produces to 22 last year and saw double the downloads and triple the ad revenue — In an effort to focus its resources with fewer … -
Ruth Graham / Slate: Air Mail, Graydon Carter's new weekly email newsletter that costs $50 annually, is a big glossy magazine stuffed awkwardly into your inbox -
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab: Pew survey of 10,618 Americans from last fall: 61% say the news media intentionally ignores important stories, 19% say media is biased or focused on opinions