WWD: Sports Illustrated publisher Maven is the latest media company to reveal it received a federal coronavirus loan. The company, which also owns TheStreet, was approved for a $5.7 million Paycheck Protection Program loan on April 6....

Folio: Hanley Wood, the Washington, DC.-based B2B media company serving the real estate, residential design and construction sectors, laid off employees last week and rolled out salary cuts for others, citing "impacts of Covid-19 on...

Washington Post: Many of the era’s digital innovators had already gone through rounds of layoffs and bouts of restructuring that preceded the pandemic. The job market is now flooded with a crop of experienced journalists picking over fewer possible...

AdAge: Google’s dominance of the $130 billion digital advertising market is harming advertisers and consumers, according to a new paper that outlines how the U.S. could bring an antitrust case against the internet...

TheDrum: There's a new commercial playbook in place at Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post since the lockdown evaporated its usual ad market, and it is built around brands showing their utility in the wider world. "Our first priority can’t be to sell...

Adweek: Conde Nast is releasing a new first-party data offering it hopes will draw interest from advertisers. The offering, Now|New|Next Segments, uses the publisher's first-party data across brands to share insights that speak to how consumers are...

Digiday: Next week, USA Today will launch its fourth national coronavirus newsletter. The newsletter, focused on sports, follows Staying Apart Together, a kind of self-care newsletter, and Daily Money, a newsletter on personal...

Baltimore Business Journal: More than 3,400 signatures have posted to a petition that seeks to convince Tribune to sell the Baltimore Sun to a group of local investors. The "Save Our Sun" petition won supporters including local A-listers like John...

MediaPost: Lee Enterprises received notice from the New York Stock Exchange that it is not in compliance with certain listing standards — that puts the company at risk of being delisted, according to an announcement from the...

Press Gazette: Bauer Media plans to close, merge or sell 10 of its print titles it says will not be sustainable once the Covid-19 crisis is over. The titles include music magazines Q and Planet Rock, car brands Modern Classics and Car Mechanics, and “true-life” title...

Mediaite: Sports Illustrated only has enough money for the next 11 months and told investors that "there is substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern." Maven took over Sports Illustrated a little under a year...

Vanity Fair: Ben Smith has been the New York Times's media columnist for more than two months now, following in the footsteps of Jim Rutenberg and David Carr. He’s a bomb-thrower, not exactly a normal Timesian role, and his columns have made...