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Stephen Marche / New York Times:
Esquire columnist Stephen Marche, frequent Gawker target, defends the site, says it provides an essential function to democracy and holds tech titans to account — I HAVE been attacked pretty much my entire career by Gawker. I made its list of “least important writers” twice …
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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
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Mark Scott / New York Times:
Study: 1 in 5 smartphone users globally are blocking ads, a 90% increase in 2015, with 36% in Asia-Pacific region, but only 2.2% in US as of March — Many of the world's largest Internet companies, like Google and Facebook, rely heavily on advertising to finance their online empires.
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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 — Together with the European Commission, they unveil a new code of conduct designed to avoid the “spread of illegal hate speech.”
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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 …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Glenn Beck suspended by SiriusXM for a week over comments made by guest, fiction writer Brad Thor, about presidential candidate Donald Trump — Satellite radio company SiriusXM has suspended Glenn Beck's syndicated show this week and is “evaluating” the program's place over comments made last week by one of Beck's guests.
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Analysis of Pulitzer data shows 84% of winners over last 100 years have been white; in the last decade, women have made up one-third of journalism prize winners — Within the cardboard boxes and reams of microfilm that hold the last century of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism lies …
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Incoming CEO of Salon, Jordan Hoffner, hints to staff of big changes ahead, including expanding the business through acquisitions — Jordan Hoffner, who last week was named CEO of Salon Media Group, already has big plans to turn the company's business around.
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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