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11:40 AM ET, July 5, 2016

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Alastair Reid / First Draft News:
Craig Silverman's new beat aims to leverage BuzzFeed's viral expertise to expose fake news  —  Almost a year to the day after launching its Canadian edition, BuzzFeed announced this week that it would be closing its Ottawa bureau and re-locating staff to the US.
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Reporter's notes submitted to court in Rolling Stone defamation case for UVA rape story show early inconsistencies in claims of the primary source, “Jackie”  —  Rolling Stone journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely spent five months investigating a shocking claim of a gang rape at a University …
Choi Chi-yuk / South China Morning Post:
China's internet censor says online media cannot gather news from social media without approval or publish news without verification  —  Cyberspace Administration's move comes days after Xu Lin, formerly deputy head of the body, takes on top role  —  China's powerful internet censorship body …
Alan White / BuzzFeed:
UK publisher Archant announces The New European, a pop-up paper for British “dismayed by Brexit”, for an initial run of 4 issues  —  The New European, published 8 July, is described as a “pop-up paper” which took Archant just nine days to conceive and get into newsagents.
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Martha Stewart broadcasts on Facebook Live, testing sponsorships to create revenue  —  Veteran TV personality has been testing out Facebook's live streaming, which is much cheaper to produce than a TV show  —  Veteran TV personality Martha Stewart has made more than two dozen Facebook Live episodes since …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Major Political News Outlets Offer Interviews for Sale at DNC and RNC Conventions  —  For high-rolling special interests looking to make an impression at the presidential conventions next month, one option is to pay a lot of money to a media outlet.  Lobbyists for the oil industry, for instance …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Univision reaches out to English-speaking Latinos with a dedicated section of its website  —  At the Iowa Caucus back in February, Univision political reporter Fernando Peinado posted a video of one of the now infamous tiebreaker coin tosses with a Spanish caption:
Discussion: @raju
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The Mother Jones prison investigation shows how undercover reporting can work, with extreme care in some cases  —  Undercover reporting is the James Dean of journalism: thrilling, but dangerous.  —  Nellie Bly did it in 1887 when she checked herself into an insane asylum and emerged with stories of beatings and neglect.
New York Times:
At least 164 staffers have left Polish state broadcasting and audiences have declined at all state TV channels since January media controls went into effect  —  WARSAW, Poland — The ax fell for Piotr Maslak just 12 days into the new year, when his new boss at Poland's state television told …
Discussion: @mirekvoice07 and @kenroth
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Gawker Media built a tool to push top 10 comment threads to Facebook Instant Articles and AMP  —  For many publishers, comments are an important way to create reader engagement.  There are few places where that's more true than Gawker Media, where co-founder Nick Denton has made commenting …
Discussion: @nicknotned and @digiday
Columbia Journalism Review:
Study: readers across political spectrum are likely to trust long narrative stories regardless of outlet  —  NO SELF-RESPECTING LIBERAL would trust anything written on Breitbart, and every self-respecting conservative knows that The New York Times is a liberal rag controlled by people with New York values.
Miranda Ward / Mumbrella:
ABC to axe opinion site The Drum as it looks to shift away from ‘traditional opinion writing’  —  The ABC is set to axe its controversial opinion website The Drum as the ABC seeks to shift away from “traditional opinion writing” towards providing more “context and analysis audiences need”.
 
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