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White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus says media shouldn't use anonymous sources and should take Trump seriously when he calls them “the enemy” — Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, advised Americans to take President Trump's attacks on the media “seriously,” …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Journalists have flimsy legal protections if Trump's Department of Justice uses Espionage Act and orders them to reveal sources, a practice Obama's DoJ started — For those who care about press rights in America, President Trump's words last week were stunning and disturbing.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
As President Trump pushes ahead on his effort to delegitimize US journalism, he is lending credence to theories and phrases advanced by fast-growing Infowars — Way back on Friday, President Trump declared that several news organizations — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, The New York Times — were “the enemy of the American people.”
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
CPAC criticized for inviting Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos to speak after pedophilia remarks resurface; Yiannopoulos responded in a Facebook post — Milo Yiannopoulos, the Breitbart senior editor and right-wing provocateur, has been profiting from a feedback loop of predictable outrage …
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Swedish cops say they were misrepresented in a film featured on Fox News which led to Trump's Sweden remarks and described the filmmaker as “a madman” — Trump's comments about Sweden during his rally in Melbourne, Florida, spawned headlines in newspapers all around the world.
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Eleanor Ainge Roy / The Guardian:
Kim Dotcom extradition to US can go ahead, New Zealand high court rules — Dotcom faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted in the US of piracy, which authorities say cost copyright owners hundreds of millions of dollars — The high court in New Zealand has ruled Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom …
Kelly Fiveash / Ars Technica UK:
Google and Microsoft's Bing agree to demote piracy search results in the UK by 1 June 2017, as part of a deal with the entertainment industry — Deal struck after lengthy spat between search engines and entertainment industry. — Google and Microsoft's Bing have agreed to crack …
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Telegraph, Softpedia News and The Tech Portal
James Kirchick / The Atlantic:
How Washington power-brokers protected columnist Joe Alsop for over 13 years after the KGB entrapped him in a homosexual tryst — Joe Alsop was the dean of Washington's foreign-policy columnists, a committed Cold Warrior, the doyen of Georgetown society, close confidante to presidents, senators, secretaries of state—and secretly gay.
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Rohin Dharmakumar / The Ken:
The Ken, an Indian subscription-only business news site that posts one story a day, raises $400K in angel funding and plans to offer corporate subscriptions — The Ken formally launched on 3 October 2016 as India's first subscriptions-only business news site. Today, we're announcing our angel funding round.
Thanks:@amazinglynelson
Jane Lee / The Age:
Australia's Yahoo7 fined $300K after one of its reporters published an article that led to an aborted murder trial — Yahoo7 has been fined $300,000 and convicted of contempt of court for publishing an article that aborted a murder trial, with a judge saying that one of Australia's biggest …
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Winnie Hu / New York Times:
Polk Awards honor David Fahrenthold of WaPo on Trump, ICIJ on Panama Papers, ProPublica's Alec MacGillis on voters, East Bay Express on Oakland police, more — A Washington Post reporter who brought to light a video of Donald J. Trump making lewd comments about women and a ProPublica reporter …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
A look at Local Matters, a weekly newsletter highlighting local watchdog journalism around the country that is put out by three Naples Daily News reporters — Each day, early in the morning, during lunch or when they're done covering politics and courts in Naples, Florida, three young journalists turn back to the news.