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Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
Bill Cunningham, Legendary Times Fashion Photographer, Dies at 87 — Bill Cunningham, the street-style photographer whose photo essays for The New York Times memorialized trends ranging from fanny packs to Birkin bags, gingham shirts and fluorescent biker shorts, died in New York on Saturday.
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David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Inside Mother Jones' investigation of private prisons, and how reporter Shane Bauer worked for four months as a prison guard in Louisiana — Shane Bauer tried to keep a straight face. The Mother Jones senior reporter was on assignment at a private prison in Louisiana, working as a guard.
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Noah Kulwin / Recode:
Mother Jones targeted again by law firm that earlier waged a three-year legal fight against the magazine
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
ITV sees almost £2.5bn wiped from stock market value after Brexit, leading to speculation it could be an acquisition target for a foreign media company — Broadcaster saw share price fall by more than 20% on Friday, raising speculation it will become target for takeover bid
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Talking New Media, @marksweney and @mdhillraiser
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Brexit Sell-Off: CBS, Liberty Global, ITV Stocks Among Buying Opportunities, Analysts Say — EMAIL ME — “For media stocks, it feels like every crisis is met with selling,” says one analyst. — Global stock markets were hit Friday by a broad sell-off following Britain's decision to leave …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
SCOTUSblog's Lyle Denniston joins National Constitution Centre's Constitution Daily as Supreme Court correspondent — Lyle Denniston, dean of the Supreme Court press corps, is leaving SCOTUSblog to join the National Constitution Center, the center announced over the weekend.
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
The temporary follow feature in Twitter Moments is indispensable when big news hits, but too hard to find — If Twitter's value is telling you what's happening 10 to 15 minutes before everyone else, why isn't the feature that does that best at the front and center of the app?
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
The Washington Post is launching a crowdsourced Black history project on Tumblr — The Washington Post thinks it might have one solution to a recurring problem for major news organizations: How can you take a local story (a museum exhibit opening, say) and make it relevant to a national audience?
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Reuters:
Sources: Google and Facebook start automatically blocking reposted extremist videos — Some of the web's biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the process.
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Theodore Ross / Jezebel:
Inside Kate Lanphear's brief tenure as Maxim's editor-in-chief — Kate Lanphear had been editor-in-chief of Maxim magazine for only a few weeks in the waning months of 2014, when the discussion finally, and inevitably, turned to sex. There had already been a long string of meetings addressing features …
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@bijanstephen and @espiers
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Elizabeth Spayd, incoming New York Times public editor: 'I'm not there to make friends' — Elizabeth Spayd remembers where she was when the call came through. — She was driving into New York City after a visit to Long Island when her phone rang. It was Philip Corbett …
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New York Times, @raju and New York Magazine
Bharatha Mallawarachi / Associated Press:
Sri Lankan lawmakers approve freedom of information law — COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers unanimously approved a law on Friday giving citizens the right to demand public information, a move many hope will restore transparency and good governance to a nation long plagued by corruption and misrule.
Melody Kramer / Poynter:
Q&A with New York data lab The Office for Creative Research on news in the public space, choosing projects, and algorithmic editorial choice — If you were walking on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin campus one spring night in 2012, you would have seen a number of people getting …
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Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Serious Eats, Film School Rejects, and Femsplain say readers signing on as members via Medium number from 100 to 190, at $3 to $5 a month each — In early April, Medium, the platform founded by Ev Williams, made a pitch to the publishing community: come to Medium, and we'll help you make money.
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@raju, @mathewi and @ryanlawler
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Pacific Standard, The Ringer, The Awl, The Bold Italic, and Femsplain talk about transitioning to Medium
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