Wednesday Morning in the Blogosphere

To Live and Die at the L.A. Times - Alta Online

Is Digital First’s takeover bid for Gannett just a ploy? - Poynter

How Reuters Is Training Reporters to Spot ‘Deepfakes’ - Digiday

Local News Is Dying, and Americans Have No Idea - The Atlantic

Three Views on the Ways to Provide Better News to Everyone - Medium

Public Sees an America in Decline on Many Fronts - Pew Research Center

BNP Media Shutters Five Magazines, Laying Off Numerous Staffers - Folio

Pew research finds that broadcast is the favorite source for local news - Poynter

Alden cuts costs by putting one editor in charge of scores of California papers - DFM Workers

Tribune Tower owner sells Michigan Avenue offices for $72 million - Crain's Chicago Business

Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere

The number of clients visiting the food pantry has began inching up every week

Weekly newspapers in danger from political leaders' - WV News

How local news can restore trust in the media - Washington Examiner

Gannett Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2018 Results - Business Wire

Black Press: The advent of the first African American newspapers - OUPblog

What isn’t your newsroom covering that your audience wants more of? - Poynter

Digital Advertising in the US is Finally Bigger Than Print and Television - Recode

New filings show Alden Global Capital is picking up Tribune stock - DFM Workers

Gannett to 'stay the course' in face of widening losses, proxy battle - New York Post

70-year-old newspaper vendor killed in accident; bus driver arrested - The Straits Times

O.C. Register’s ghoulish purchase of life insurance on its employees cost it millions - LAT