The real-estate mogul and reality TV star announced that Steve Bannon, Breitbart News cofounder, would serve as CEO of his presidential campaign, while veteran GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway is coming on board as campaign manager. Bloomberg News calls him "the most dangerous political operative in America,"

Univision Holdings is bidding an undisclosed amount for Gawker Media, according to a separate report from Reuters, citing several unnamed individuals familiar with the auction process. However, to be competitive with Ziff Davis' earlier bid of $90 million, it must presumably be near nine figures.

A political fundraising organization created by conservative talk show host and former gubernatorial candidate Dan Proft is distributing a number of fake newspapers to promote Republican candidates for state senate and attack rivals.

Whatever trials and travails the newspaper industry had to endure over the last decade (and it has endured quite a few) beleaguered investors and publishers could always point to one rock-solid reference: Warren Buffett. Until now.

To explain all the kaleidoscopic woes of the Middle East, 40,000 words may not be enough - but it's a good start. That's how much coverage The New York Times Magazine is devoting to a blockbuster special issue delving into the collapse of the Mideast, the world's most volatile region over the last five decades.

The publishers of The Times, The Sun, The Guardian, and The Daily Mail are said to be in talks to form an ad consortium that would offer advertisers massive scale for multiplatform campaigns through a single buying process.

While John Oliver's lengthy exegesis of the newspaper industry's woes was pretty funny, at least in this media blogger's humble op-ed, the Newspaper Association of America is not amused - and maybe the industry organization has a point here.

After skewering obvious targets like politics, sports, and the advertising industry, it was only a matter of time before newspapers came in for the John Oliver treatment, meaning a good 20 minutes of extended explanatory mockingon his HBO news comedy show "Last Week Tonight."

Hearst is blowing its own horn when it comes to fashion. The publisher of Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire and Town & Country is touting its fashion coverage ahead of the big September fashion issues in a new marketing campaign boldly proclaiming, "We Are Fashion," according to WWD, which first reported the news.

Close on the heels of a sweeping reorganization affecting both the business and editorial sides of the company, Time Inc. is moving to slash costs with around 110 layoffs, most of them concentrated in the publisher's sales and marketing force.