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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 …
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@pipstodollars, @jtierney6 and @byrontau
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
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@jayrosen_nyu, @andrewdfish, @the_intercept and @cmuratori
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 …
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@carr2n, @ronmwangaguhung, @karaswisher and @emilysteel
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 …
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@counternotions, VentureBeat, Gizmodo and Engadget
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 …
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Committee to Protect … and @niemanfdn
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.
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BuzzMachine, @jeffjarvis, @dearsplenda, @saramorrison and Business Insider
Politico:
Soon-to-be “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd brings reporter experience, passion for politics to a show battling low ratings — A junkie comes to fix ‘Meet the Press’ — Three weeks from Sunday, Chuck Todd, the political obsessive with a knack for polling data and a love of …
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TVNewser, @jayrosen_nyu, @davefeinman, @katie_glueck, New York Times, Fox News and Washington Post
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 …
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Latest News & Headlines, Reporter's Committee …, Politico, Mediaite, @poynter, The Huffington Post and FishbowlDC
Mónica Guzmán / GeekWire:
Seattle police asked citizens to watch what they tweet, raising free speech questions — The problem with the police's plea to ‘Tweet Smart’ — Considering this week's events in Ferguson, Missouri, isn't it smartest for the public to tweet more real-time police activity in some emergencies, not less?
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@corybe, @geekwire, @moniguzman, Techdirt and Associated Press
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 …
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Gigaom, @willoremus, @myersnews, @myersnews, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine and SocialTimes
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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Washington Post, The Drum and @jeffjarvis