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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
The Washington Post editorial board calls for prosecution of Edward Snowden, the paper's source for stories that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service — Three of the four media outlets which received and published large numbers of secret NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden …
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Washington Post, CNNMoney, Guardian, RT, @fmanjoo, @hitrecordjoe, @snowden, @speechboy71, @ggreenwald, @mattyglesias, @trevortimm, @mrdanzak, @ggreenwald, @adamjohnsonnyc, @s_m_i, @ian_fraser, MediaFile, @dankennedy_nu, @wexler, @barryeisler, Gizmodo, @jimbovard, @genn4dy, @buzzfeedandrew, @suzi3d and American Press Institute
VICE News:
Vice News reporter Alex Thompson was released around midnight following mid-afternoon arrest at Trump campaign event in Houston — Alex Thompson, a reporter for VICE News, was released from Houston Central Jail just after midnight central time Sunday morning.
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The Daily Caller, VICE News, @mccarthyryanj, @keegan_hamilton, @nprinskeep, @davesund, @learmonth, @tyrangiel, @mccarthyryanj, @adamnagourney, @chatterbox_46, The Huffington Post, The Wrap, @nytimesdowd, @bcappelbaum, @vicenews, Washington Post, @spacekatgal, Talking Points Memo, Mashable and Mediaite
Laura Prudom / Variety:
‘Game of Thrones’ Creators Reflect on Breaking Emmy Record, Spinoffs and Season 7 — “Game of Thrones” ruled the 2016 Emmys with 12 wins, including awards for Best Drama Series, Best Directing (Miguel Sapochnik) and Best Writing (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss) for “Battle of the Bastards.”
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Netflix releases original short film “Meridian” as test footage for codec developers and even competitors to use, open sources tools for new video master format — A deserted cliff. Lightning appearing out of nowhere. A mysterious lady all dressed in white.
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@ericsteuer, @jank0, @dexterdavey, @joesteel, @dcurtisj and @janedaily
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Interview with Joe Kahn, the new managing editor at The New York Times, on how the newsroom is changing, diversity, more — Journalism is now examining how it should treat Donald Trump. Shouldn't we signal to readers high up in stories that he's a liar? That he's a racist?
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@sulliview, CNET and Mother Jones
Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
Andy Carvin and other staffers of now-closed Reported.ly discuss lessons learned curating news on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit — The reported.ly team discussed how they approached eyewitness media and graphic content, speaking at the ONA conference in Denver — Credit: Image by scyther5 on Shutterstock
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@wordsofsarah, @mjenkins, @ethanklapper, @mandy_velez, @thisisrachael, @jenniferhefty, @thisisrachael, @jmizgata, @mjenkins, @meenaganesan and Journalism News
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
Media entrepreneur and Weblogs founder Jason Calacanis relaunches Inside.com, a roster of eight newsletters, with plans to expand to 250, already has 100K subs — Jason Calacanis wants to build the next media empire on the back of an old standby: email, specifically email newsletters.
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Media Wire Daily, Recode, @marshallk, @krissiegel and jason
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Dutch publisher The Correspondent has 47K paying subscribers, 1K members joining a month, an annual retention rate of 83%, considering international expansion — Dutch publisher The Correspondent is adding around a thousand new members each month. With this growth, it's on track to reach …
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@geraudalice and @janebsinger
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
ESPN debuts first bilingual sports news show, Nación ESPN, aimed at US' growing audience of Latinos; show presented in English, but guests can speak Spanish — ESPN is launching its first bilingual sports news show, aimed at the growing audience of Latino viewers in the U.S. Starting Sept. 26 …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: Bloomberg's Managing Editor for digital, Michael Shane, promoted to global head of digital innovation — Scott Havens, Bloomberg Media's global head of digital, sent out the following announcement on Monday:
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FishbowlNY, Media Wire Daily and @fishbowlny
Susanne Althoff / Wired:
In publishing, a new wave of big data startups are helping editors predict which books will land next on the New York Times bestseller list — Jodie Archer had always been puzzled by the success of The Da Vinci Code. She'd worked for Penguin UK in the mid-2000s, when Dan Brown's thriller …
Piper French / Roads & Kingdoms:
Q&A with a news assistant for a foreign news agency in China on the challenges of being a local fixer, dealing with the Great Firewall, more — In international journalism, a local journalist hired by foreign reporters for his or her special knowledge of the local area, culture, and language is called a fixer.
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@estherxlwang, @roadskingdoms and @roadskingdoms
Jeremiah Patterson / Online News Association:
Breaking News, Intercept, Quartz, New York Magazine take home 2016 Online Journalism Awards — DENVER — Superlative reporting on leaked data, prison reform and undue police force led coverage that garnered top honors for 35 media organizations Saturday night at the 2016 Online Journalism Awards …