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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Breitbart reporter files police report against Trump campaign manager — Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields intensified her battle with Donald Trump's campaign on Friday, filing a police report against top aide Corey Lewandowski for allegedly strong-arming her earlier in the week.
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Breitbart Editor Ordered Staffers To Stop Defending Michelle Fields — “STOP tweeting about the story. Stop speculating about the story,” editor-at-large Joel Pollak told Bretibart staffers in internal chats, screenshots of which were obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Breitbart spokesman Kurt Bardella parts ways with site amid controversy involving Trump campaign manager — Breitbart spokesperson parts ways with website — Kurt Bardella, who had been serving as Breitbart's spokesperson, has parted ways with the company, he said in an interview.
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Video Appears to Show Trump Campaign Manager Reaching for Breitbart Reporter's Arm — A new video has emerged that appears to show Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski reaching out and trying to grab Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields' arm seconds before she claims he pulled her to the ground.
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
CBS News Reporter Sopan Deb Arrested While Covering Donald Trump Rally — He's charged with resisting arrest despite no evidence of doing so. — CBS News reporter Sopan Deb was arrested Friday night while covering protests surrounding Donald Trump's canceled rally in Chicago.
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Kelly Hinchcliffe / Poynter:
Interview with BuzzFeed data editor Jeremy Singer-Vine on his newsletter, Data Is Plural — Meet the BuzzFeed editor whom data journalists love — Last fall, I started reading a newsletter by BuzzFeed data editor Jeremy Singer-Vine that combines three of my favorite things - journalism, public records and data.
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Hulk Hogan's lawyer says Gawker makes millions off peoples' misery — Attorneys for Hulk Hogan rested their case Friday after telling a Florida jury that Gawker Media has made millions of dollars off the human suffering it has caused. — Hogan's lawyers began the morning in a St. Petersburg courtroom …
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Ben H. Bagdikian, media critic and journalist with key role in Pentagon Papers case, dies at 96 — Ben H. Bagdikian, a key figure in the publication of the Pentagon Papers by The Washington Post in 1971, which resulted in a momentous legal victory supporting freedom of the press …
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Sean Hollister / CNET:
Snapchat's hiring of hardware designers, wearable experts, and former HoloLens recruiter indicates it may be working on AR or VR devices — SnapGlass? HoloChat? Snapchat is secretly hiring wearable technology experts … Sarah Tew/CNET
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Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
North Carolina's new statewide newspaper, North State Journal, draws skepticism over business viability and wariness over political connections — A plan for a new statewide paper has some observers asking: ‘Is this for real?’ — As Neal Robbins tells it, when was making plans …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The Boston Globe is shutting down its Catholic vertical Crux, citing a shortfall in advertising — “We simply haven't been able to develop the financial model of big-ticket, Catholic-based advertisers that was envisioned when we launched Crux back in September 2014.”
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Zheping Huang / Quartz:
A reporter blocked from leaving China to accept a prize says his craft is despicable—and noble — Veteran Chinese journalist and historian Yang Jisheng exposed the massive death toll of China's Great famine, and how Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong's wrong policies created it, in his 2008 book Tombstone.
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