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12:05 PM ET, July 17, 2016

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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were temporarily blocked or slowed in Turkey during military coup attempt  —  The Turkish military has deployed in Istanbul and Ankara, and the government has apparently blocked social media in response to what is being reported as an attempted coup.
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Jordan Golson / The Verge:
CNN Türk studios taken over by soldiers, broadcast temporarily halted  —  The television studio of CNN Turk allegedly was taken over by armed members of the country's military and its anchors forced off the air.  However, the station was broadcasting its feed on Facebook Live at the time …
the grugq:
Attempted coup's failure to block internet in Turkey allowed President Erdogan and civilians to organize resistance through FaceTime, Periscope, Facebook Live  —  Rewriting the rulebook on coups, time to add cyberpower  —  Mere hours after the putsch in Turkey has failed, it is still too early to understand exactly what went on.
Reggie Ugwu / BuzzFeed:
Inside the small teams at Spotify, Google, and Apple that make tens of thousands of playlists listened to by tens of millions of people around the world  —  When he's choosing  —  your music for you, Carl Chery, 37, is in Culver City, California, sitting at his desk in an office with no signage …
Toufiq Rashid / Hindustan Times:
India bans newspaper publication for 3 days in Kashmir, raids media houses, shuts down printing presses, and seizes already printed copies amid civil unrest  —  Authorities on Saturday banned newspaper publication in Kashmir for three days after police raided media houses and shut …
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Fox News commentator Wayne Simmons, who Feds say faked a CIA career, sentenced to 33 months in prison  —  Wayne Simmons was a professional football player, a drug trafficker, a nightclub doorman, a Fox News guest analyst and an intelligence adviser in Afghanistan.
Rachel Sanderson / Financial Times:
Italian gossip magazine owner Urbano Cairo acquires 48.8% of RCS Mediagroup, owners of Corriere della Sera and Spain's El Mundo, at an implied valuation of $1B  —  A gossip magazine owner and former employee of Silvio Berlusconi has become the owner of Italian national newspaper Corriere della Sera …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
MuckRock building database of exceptions used by state, federal governments to deny FOIA requests with goal of helping users understand rejections, file appeals  —  In the 2015 fiscal year, the U.S. federal government processed 769,903 Freedom of Information requests.
Discussion: @spj_tweets
Simran Singh / CBC News:
Journalist in India uses face-mapping Snapchat filters to conceal identities of young survivors of sexual assault  —  Journalist in India masks women's identities through Snapchat filters  —  Simran Singh  · CBC News  —  While most people who use Snapchat use it to exchange selfies …
Simon Rogers / Global Investigative Journalism Network:
Data editor at Google's News Lab, Simon Rogers, on the challenges of producing 360-degree data visualizations during Brexit  —  Isn't the best journalism always immersive?  Whether it's Walter Kronkite's journalistic take on history “You are There” from the 1950s or Declan Walsh's mobile phone reporting …
Liz Spayd / New York Times:
New York Times editor estimates use of anonymous sources has decreased around 30% since tighter policy began in March  —  Many readers have written in to the public editor over the past months and years complaining about The Times's persistent use of unnamed sources.
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
 
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