Top News:
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.
DN.SE:
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.
Discussion:
The Guardian, Reuters, Washington Post, @maggienyt, The Guardian, @raju, @dangillmor, @glennthrush, @pkafka and @craigsilverman
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 …
Discussion:
Milo Yiannopoulos, Mediaite, Hollywood Reporter, TheBlaze, Hit & Run, LGBTQ Nation, The Gateway Pundit, The Wrap, @wajahatali, @amandacarpenter, @adamserwer, @erikaheidewald, The Stranger …, @liberallab, @pennyred, @davidfrum, @owillis, @davidfrum, @jbarro, @davidfrum, @demfromct, @funnylikeaclown, AOL, @louisemensch, @daddy2tlb, The Guardian, The Resurgent, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Axios and Washingtonian
CBS News:
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,” …
Discussion:
@ryanlizza, New Yorker, Washington Post, Washington Post, NBC News, ABC News, FOX News Radio, NPR, Politico, TheBlaze, New York Magazine, The Federalist, IJR, Fortune, Fox News, @jessicahuseman, Telegraph, CNNMoney, BuzzMachine, Quartz, Business Insider, CBS New York, Mashable, @brendanbordelon, Mediaite, Observer, @tjsavino, @mikeisaac, @olivianuzzi, Newser, @dbfarber, @jdickerson, @jdawsey1, @axios, @gelliottmorris, @katie_roof, @conor64, @joyannreid, @digiphile, The Daily Caller, Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, New York Times, Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media, Random Pixels Blog and Axios
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 …
Eleanor Ainge Roy / The Guardian:
Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US on copyright and mail fraud charges, New Zealand high court rules; Dotcom's lawyer says he plans to appeal — 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
Discussion:
Scoop, The Next Web, CNET, BBC and Softpedia News
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.”
Discussion:
@willmcavoyacn, @bryanllenas, @maggienyt, @newsmansilva, @profdaly, @jillgeisler, @juddlegum, @pervaizistan and @djrothkopf
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.
Discussion:
@20committee, @sohrabahmari, @theatlantic and MuckRock
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 …
Discussion:
Mumbrella, ABC, The Guardian and iMediaEthics
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.
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
