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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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Richard Tofel / ProPublica:
Donald Trump's hostile remarks regarding the legal and constitutional rights of the press are reminiscent of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 — In 1733, New York printer John Peter Zenger began publishing the eighth newspaper in the American colonies, and the first willing to venture criticism of the government.
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@cironline and @meganharris13
Ken Doctor / Politico:
Sources: Gannett and Tronc near deal, likely pricing Tronc at about $18.50 to $19 per share; announcement could come as early as Monday — Sources tell POLITICO the announcement could come as early as Monday morning — Gannett's long quest to buy the newspaper company known as Tronc is nearing the finish line.
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Fortune, LA Observed, @mathewi, @bcappelbaum, @alexweprin, @tomgara, The Wrap, @dataeditor, FishbowlNY and Media Wire Daily
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Driven by ratings, as a top exec at NBC Entertainment and CNN, Jeff Zucker aided Trump's rise with Apprentice shows and airing of rallies during primaries — Looking for someone specific to hold responsible for the improbable rise of Donald Trump? — Although there are many options …
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Pressthink, CNNMoney, @freddydeknatel, @jayrosen_nyu, @reedfrich and @jimrutenberg
The Independent:
As BBC Radio director Helen Boaden resigns, she worries about the accelerated pace of the news, speaks up for the virtues of slow journalism — More than three and a half thousand migrants are reported to have died trying to cross the Mediterranean in 2015.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Twitter's hate speech and harassment issues have steadily grown worse, exacerbated by the company's failure to enforce its own rules and political campaigns — If you go by what some Twitter users have to say, it's a wonder I can string together a sentence.
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@eilenez, @sulliview, @karoli, @jczamora, @brianstelter, @dangainor, @hblodget, @jimrutenberg and New York Daily News
YouTube:
Fusion's Felix Salmon interviews Nick Denton about the rise and fall of Gawker, power in the media, and the future of journalism — Gawker founder Nick Denton has a candid conversation with Fusion's Felix Salmon on the Gawker lawsuit, Peter Thiel, and the relationship between media and po...
Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg:
Spotify's growth likely to be weak at first in Japan, where physical music sales are 84% of total and digital sales fell 50%+ since iPhone launch in 2008 — The music streaming service will have to fight record labels that still sell a lot of profitable compact discs. — Yuji Nakamura
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@benedictevans, @hendri, @ynakamura56 and @schestowitz
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 …
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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.
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@seifeddinetr, @ffregister, Libyan Express and Agence France-Presse
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 …
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Android Police, @rafat, Engadget, @digiphile and The Verge
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