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5:45 PM ET, October 2, 2016

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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
The New York Times risked legal trouble to publish Donald Trump's tax return  —  Dean Baquet wasn't bluffing.  —  The New York Times executive editor said during a visit to Harvard in September that he would risk jail to publish Donald Trump's tax returns.
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Susanne Craig / New York Times:
How Susanne Craig and a team of New York Times journalists confirmed the authenticity of Trump's tax documents she received in the mail  —  Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times.
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Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans shot dead by sniper in Sirte, Libya  —  Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans has been shot dead by an alleged Islamic State (ISIS) sniper in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte, colleagues and local media report.  It comes 4 years after Oerlemans was briefly abducted in Syria.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Company that owns Telegraph took £150M writedown on newspapers as it paid owners a £150M dividend  —  Press Acquisitions Ltd filing also reports that the papers' owners, the Barclay brothers, received a similar amount as a dividend  —  The parent company of the Telegraph newspapers took …
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Life On Air, developers of Meerkat, pull the app from the App Store to focus on group video chat app Houseparty  —  Remember Meerkat?  It came out of nowhere in early 2015 — a star of SXSW, in particular — and was on everyone's tongue for weeks.  Then came Periscope …
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
Inside a two-year-old catfishing ebook scam on Amazon that has generated over $3M in revenue for its creator, Valeriy Shershnyov  —  For years, thousands were tricked into buying low-quality ebooks.  —  NEW YORK — Emma Moore could have been the health and weight loss guru you spent your life looking for.
Discussion: @zackwhittaker, @kashhill and @grimmelm
David Bixenspan / Law News:
Former editor-in-chief of Gawker A.J. Daulerio says he considered going into hiding, posting entire Hulk Hogan sex tape online, but was talked out of it  —  A.J. Daulerio, the editor-in-chief of Gawker at the time of the Hulk Hogan “sex tape” post (which he authored), granted a rare interview this week …
Robert Draper / New York Times:
How Donald Trump set off a civil war in right-wing media, pitting personalities Coulter, Hannity, Ingraham against conservative stalwarts like Will, Erickson  —  Since the candidate clinched the nomination, the green room has become a chilly place.  —  In recent years, one of the most important events …
Discussion: @dylanbyers and @nytmag
R.L. Bynum / Raleigh & Company:
McClatchy executive Robin Johnston explains how the company's print production hubs operate and details plans to produce all 28 newspapers in hubs by Q1 2017  —  The Charlotte publishing hub that produces The News & Observer always has been quite busy.  It got busier in August …
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Bruce Campion-Smith / Toronto Star:
Torstar chair John Honderich warns of a crisis in Canadian private media as newsrooms shrink, advertising disappears, and federally funded CBC News competes  —  Canadian media are facing a “crisis” as market forces shrink newsrooms, leaving fewer journalists to report the news vital to a vibrant democracy, Torstar chair tells MPs.
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Newsweek suspects that hackers are to blame for “massive DDoS attack” Thursday night, after it published an article about Trump's business dealings in Cuba  —  Newsweek suspects that hackers are to blame for the crash of its website on Thursday night, after it published an article …
 
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Reuters Institute report details changes at 25 private-sector legacy news orgs across six countries in Europe, including Finland, France, Italy, and Poland
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Rob Schmitz / NPR:
How the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's largest English-language daily, has gradually softened its coverage of mainland China in recent years
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Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

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Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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