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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Journalist who resigned from The Bristol Press over Adelson subterfuge receives first $5,000 I.F. Stone Award, named after an investigative journalist — Reporter Who Resigned Over Adelson Subterfuge Gets $5,000 Award — A Connecticut journalist who resigned last week in protest …
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New York Times, Washington Post, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Hartford Courant and Central Connecticut …
Becky Davis / Agence France-Presse:
China to expel Ursula Gauthier, a French Jounalist from L'Obs magazine who questioned government's treatment of Muslim Uighur minority — China to expel French journalist, reporter tells AFP — China has refused to renew the press credentials of a French journalist, effectively expelling her …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sole WDBJ shooting survivor, Vicki Gardner, speaks out about the tragedy — WDBJ shooting victim on the tragedy, TV violence and looking ‘ahead’ — Four months after she was shot in the back during a live TV broadcast, Vicki Gardner is finally finished with surgeries and is almost ready to return to work.
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NEWS.com.au, Daily Mail, WHSV-TV, WTHI-TV, WDBJ-TV, WSET-TV, New York Daily News, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed and KTLA
Ed Christman / Billboard:
Spotify Announces Database to Properly Manage Royalties — A woman walks through a hallway at Spotify offices following a press conference in New York City.
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Spotify for Artists, The Next Web, PanARMENIAN.Net, Ubergizmo, hypebot, TweakTown News, Yahoo and Engadget
Dan Gillmor / Nieman Lab:
Journalists must become activists for free expression amid increasing government surveillance and corporate control — Journalists turn activist — In 2016, journalists will recognize that they have to be activists — if they want to call themselves journalists, that is.
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@sulliview
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Bollywood studios and US giants like 21st Century Fox, Amazon, and Netflix hope to persuade people in India to pay for video — Bollywood and U.S. Media Giants Try to Induce Indians to Pay for Video — MUMBAI — As the morning rain dripped in the garden outside, the yoga teacher Aparajita Jamwal got …
Austin Ramzy / New York Times:
China sentences former 21st Century Media top executive Shen Hao to 4 years for extortion and embezzlement — Ex-News Executive in China Gets 4-Year Sentence for Extortion — HONG KONG — A court in Shanghai sentenced a prominent former news executive on Thursday to four years in prison for extortion …
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BBC, Reuters, Voice of America, Associated Press, @nytimesworld, Asian Correspondent, Vanguard News and DW.COM
Jessica Lussenhop / BBC:
Profile of Bill Proctor, a retired WXYZ-TV reporter investigating suspected cases of wrongful conviction in Michigan, including 1996 murder of 12-year-old girl — TV reporter spends retirement investigating brutal murder — After a long career in television, Bill Proctor could have spent his retirement out of the spotlight.
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@bbcnewsus, Newser and @mkonnikova
Samanth Subramanian / New Yorker:
The Islamist war on secular bloggers in Bangladesh — On the afternoon of February 26th, Avijit Roy was in Dhaka, finishing a column for BDNews24, a Bangladeshi Web site of news and commentary. Its title, in Bengali, was “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?,” and it adapted ideas from his new book, a primer on cosmology.
Discussion:
bdnews24.com and newsnext bangladesh
Anjali Mullany / Nieman Lab:
An experiment on Facebook with controversial content shows how platforms decide who is heard and who is censored — Platforms decide who gets heard — As you are most certainly aware, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump recently suggested that Muslims be banned from entering the United States for a while.
Agence France-Presse:
Naji Jerf, Syrian journalist, author of anti-ISIS documentaries, killed in Gaziantep, Turkey — Syria anti-IS documentary maker ‘assassinated’ in Turkey — Beirut (AFP) - A Syrian activist who produced documentaries hostile to the Islamic State group was assassinated in Turkey Sunday …
Chava Gourarie / Columbia Journalism Review:
The everyday effects of The New York Times' nail salon exposé — Eugenia Colon paints her own nails. One day this fall, they were decorated in delicate V-shaped black and white stripes, and one was bejeweled with a miniature bow-tie and several gems so that it resembled a tuxedo.