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8:30 AM ET, August 17, 2014

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Byron Tau / Politico:
Ferguson rioters harass, threaten reporters  —  FERGUSON, Missouri — Reporters trying to cover the renewed chaos in this town faced a new threat on Friday: the demonstrators themselves.  —  Print, video and photo-journalists were all repeatedly and aggressively threatened and harassed …
Edward Schumacher-Matos / NPR Ombudsman:
NPR responds to Greenwald's criticism: error was made on deadline, “no intention to deceive”  —  Attacking NPR As A Shill For Government Intelligence  —  Glenn Greenwald has denounced an NPR story as an “indisputable case of journalistic malpractice and deceit.”  —  Andrew Burton/Getty Images
Michael Bachelard / Pacic Media Centre:
WEST PAPUA: French journalists may be charged with ‘subversion’  —  JAKARTA (The Sydney Morning Herald / Pacific Media Watch): The detention of two French journalists in the Indonesian region of West Papua has taken a dangerous new turn, with local police suggesting the pair were present …
Emily Steel / New York Times:
After first original TV series fall flat, Amazon leans away from data-driven creative approach  —  For Its New Shows, Amazon Adds Art to Its Data  —  LOS ANGELES — Joe Lewis, a television executive at Amazon, lies on his stomach on a rumpled bed.  Jill Soloway, the Emmy-nominated writer and director …
Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:
Does Facebook think users are dumb?  “Satire” tag added to Onion articles [Updated]  —  Tags only appear once a user clicks through and FB generates “related articles.”  —  Facebook is already an unbearable enough place as of late, at least in my case.  Awful national and international …
Andrea Noel / VICE News:
A Mexican Journalist Is Murdered After Reporting a Fugitive Police Chief's Alleged Criminal Ties  —  A Mexican journalist was shot and killed on Monday after accusing a local police chief of leading a criminal gang in the last article he published.  He was at least the third reporter …
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Web Trolls Winning as Incivility Increases  —  The Internet may be losing the war against trolls.  At the very least, it isn't winning.  And unless social networks, media sites and governments come up with some innovative way of defeating online troublemakers, the digital world will never be free of the trolls' collective sway.
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
48 news orgs send letter protesting ‘lack of information’ in Ferguson  —  Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press  —  On Friday, 48 media organizations signed a letter to the Ferguson, Missouri chief of police, the St. Louis County chief of police and the Missouri State Highway Patrol …
Will Oremus / Slate:
Why a Young Writer Secretly Deleted Her Own BuzzFeed Post  —  As I wrote earlier, BuzzFeed has been taking heat for deleting thousands of old posts earlier this year without telling anyone.  (Gawker's J.K. Trotter was the first to report on the purge.)  The site's founder and CEO …
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Telegraph “Forgets” Its Own Stories Documenting Google “Right To Be Forgotten” Removals  —  Newspaper pulls recent articles intended to “keep alive” other stories that were removed from Google in the EU.  —  The Daily Telegraph's recent campaign to document all its stories that have been removed …
 
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