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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
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 …
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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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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@lights_michael
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
CNN staff say ex-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski could be an asset to the network's campaign coverage — CNN sustained a public-relations black eye from critics and commentators last week by adding Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, to its stable of paid pundits.
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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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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, FishbowlNY, @lauraelizdavis, @raju and New York Magazine
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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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
The Independent's directors more than doubled their pay as the UK newspaper planned to cut jobs and shelve print edition, moving to digital-only — Despite being within reach of breaking even, the Independent was made digital-only and stablemate the i was sold off
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.