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Well, we made it to the end of another month, which is a thing people used to say to simply indicate the passing of time, but in these days of Donald Trump and digital media dying off like the dinosaurs, it's become an expression of bewildered triumph. Grinder pulled the plug on Into this month, a little more than a year after it launched; BuzzFeed rolled out mass layoffs, including everyone on their national news desk and their entire LGBTQ team, with the exception of Shannon Keating; Verizon Media Group axed seven percent of its staff, including reporters from HuffPo, AOL, and Yahoo!; and Gannett Co., the U.S.' largest newspaper owner, cut jobs in some of its biggest markets. All told, The Washington...
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