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8:40 AM ET, May 31, 2016

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Matthew Jaffe / CNN:
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a public service by whistleblowing but what he did was illegal and harmed U.S. interests  —  The Axe Files, featuring David Axelrod, is a podcast distributed by CNN and produced at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
H.G. Watson / J-Source:
Transcontinental sells 13 Saskatchewan newspapers and announces layoffs  —  Transcontinental has sold all of its Saskatchewan local newspapers and laid off 35 people from all levels of the company and 30 more from its Saskatoon printing facility.  —  Effective May 30, the Montreal based …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Facebook, Google, Twitter promise to review most requests to remove hate speech within 24 hours, as European Commission unveils guidelines to halt its spread  —  EMAIL ME  —  Together with the European Commission, they unveil a new code of conduct designed to avoid the “spread of illegal hate speech.”
Discussion: VentureBeat, Globe and Mail and Fortune
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Viacom independent board members vow to fight if ousted and to continue effort to sell minority stake in Paramount  —  Viacom's independent board members are vowing to fight any “legally flawed” effort to oust them from their director seats, and they are urging shareholders to support …
Reuters:
Egypt's journalists' union head and two board members charged for harboring wanted colleagues, Amr Badr and Mahmoud El Sakka; trial begins Saturday  —  Egyptian prosecutors on Monday ordered the head of the journalists union and two board members to be tried on charges of harboring colleagues wanted …
Discussion: Reuters
Poynter:
Interview with Poynter VP and media ethicist on how to address critics and why “we stand by our story” must be replaced with point-by-point rebuttals  —  There's a now-famous scene from “All the President's Men” in which Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, in the midst of the Watergate scandal …
Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
The top 5 things news publishers can learn from game publishers: monetization, design process, testing, metrics, introduction of one-click payment for content  —  News publishers have a lot to learn from the gaming industry.  Especially when it comes to testing and promoting apps.
Jack Murtha / Columbia Journalism Review:
How fake news sites frequently trick big-time journalists  —  It would've been one hell of a story.  Early this month, “news” surfaced that Michael Jordan—yes, the Michael Jordan—had threatened to move his NBA team, the Charlotte Hornets, from North Carolina unless the state repealed …
Abid Rahman / Hollywood Reporter:
In statement, Katie Couric expresses regret for misleading pause in Under the Gun documentary and posts transcript of interview  —  Gun rights activists took issue with the selective editing on ‘Under the Gun’ which aired on Epix, May 14.  —  Katie Couric released a statement Monday saying she regrets the …
Richard Ackland / Guardian:
Long-running Australian defamation lawsuit could erode confidentiality of reporters' sources  —  The right of journalists to protect their sources is being assaulted by the courts, where many judges have long held a sniffy antipathy towards the media  —  here's a wonderful cartoon by the Australian artist Jenny Coopes.
Discussion: @lisavisentin
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump's inconsistency seems almost calculated to destroy the accountability that comes with being interviewed  —  A century-old political institution may have met its match.  —  The interview is the Niagara that fills the news ocean.  A quick check of the front page of the New York Times …
Discussion: @davidcorndc and @reliablesources
 
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New York Times:
Source: Gawker Media faces five defamation-related suits in addition to Hogan's privacy lawsuit; by comparison, The New York Times is facing two libel cases
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro faces retaliatory campaign online after reporting about Russia's “troll army”
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Howard W French / Guardian:
Former New York Times reporter recounts his experience as black journalist and the racial inequality in media coverage, the newsroom during his 30 years
Nic Christensen / Mumbrella:
60 Minutes Australia founding producer Gerald Stone on botched Lebanon kidnapping story: “greatest misadventure in 37 years”, sacking producer Rice was “unfair”
Liam Corcoran / NewsWhip:
Facebook likes for web content fell 55%, shares declined 57%, comments down 63% between July 2015 and April 2016, NewsWhip analysis of top 10 publishers shows