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  Botham Jean Witness’ Testimony Toasted by Take From GoFundMe

  February 20 at 4 a.m.

  Let’s be certain about one thing. Money is always an issue in questions of sincerity and truth-telling. The fact that you’re making money on it doesn’t automatically make what you tell me untrue, but I have a big right to wonder. If money is on the table, it’s on the...

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  DMN Lays Off 20 Newsroom Employees, Plus Others, Amid 'Restructuring'

  January 8 at 4 a.m.

  The events followed a familiar pattern for newsrooms around the country that are slowly suffocating. A tweet from Dom DiFurio, one of the surviving staffers in The Dallas Morning News' newsroom, broke the word just as the paper's employees heard it: Layoffs were coming again.  Word trickled out slowly for...

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  An Op-Ed Sparks a Tiny Protest in Front of The Dallas Morning News

  Friday, December 21, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  When community activist Keyaira Saunders finished second in a 12-person race for Dallas City Council, her supporters knew she would have to clear a tall hurdle to win the runoff against Carolyn King Arnold, who once held the District 4 seat. The Dallas Morning News' editorial board didn't make the...

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  Russian Trolls Successfully Peddled Texas Pride in 2016, Senate Reports Say

  Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  If you thought Texas' Facebook fever swamp got especially weird as the 2016 election approached, you were right. According to a couple of new, third-party reports released by the Senate Intelligence Committee this week, the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll farm behind the country's fake news campaign to interfere...

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  Irving-Based Media Company Agrees to Acquire Sinclair-Targeted CW33

  Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  The long journey traveled by Dallas' CW33 TV station appears to be nearing its end. Monday, the massive media conglomerate that owns the station agreed to merge with another massive media conglomerate. This comes after a merger deal between the first media conglomerate and a third media conglomerate fell though...

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  CW33 No Longer Has a News Division After Layoffs and Cutbacks

  Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  CW33 no longer has a news division after a recent round of layoffs and cutbacks. The station's parent company, Tribune Media, laid off 68 employees from its Dallas TV station, according to filings made by Tribune with the Texas Workforce Commission. The layoffs led to the cancellation of CW33's morning news...