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Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:

US House candidate Greg Gianforte “body-slams” Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs in Montana, is charged with misdemeanor assault; audio captures altercation — Audio obtained of Greg Gianforte attacking a reporter on the eve of a special election to fill a congressional seat vacated by a member of the Trump administration

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CNNMoney:

Montana papers including The Missoulian, The Billings Gazette, and The Independent Record pull endorsements after Gianforte is charged with misdemeanor assault — GOP candidate allegedly ‘body slams’ journalist — Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate in Montana's special congressional election …

Michael Calderone / HuffPost:

Gianforte's attack shows the peril of asking questions in Trump's America, as reporters have described being arrested, slapped, and more in the past three weeks — Political reporters have described a pattern of being arrested, pinned, slapped and body slammed.

Discussion: @mlcalderone, Washington Post, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, @sulliview, @mlcalderone, @mlcalderone, @sdkstl, Associated Press, @wangcecillia, The Wrap and The Guardian

Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:

Sources: Facebook signs deals with Vox, BuzzFeed, others for video content, paying up to $250K/episode for longer shows it will own, $10-35K for shorter shows — Facebook Inc (FB.O) has signed deals with millennial-focused news and entertainment creators Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN …

Discussion: Engadget, The Hill, eMarketer and Newsroom Posts, The Daily Caller, AOL, New York Magazine, Fortune, Variety, CNET, The Verge, Axios, @mathewi and @sfiegerman, more at Techmeme »

Michael Calderone / HuffPost:

As Cars.com pulls ads from his show, Fox News' Sean Hannity says progressives are trying to silence his conservative voice — The Fox News host defiantly pushes back against critics in a HuffPost interview just as a first advertiser flees. — As Fox News host Sean Hannity came under fire …

Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:

Ed Butowsky, Fox News pundit who facilitated a private investigation into the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich, has links to Steve Bannon — Ed Butowsky, the Dallas wealth manager and frequent Fox News guest who facilitated a private investigation into the murder of Seth Rich …

Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:

Media Insight Project study: 17% of Americans say media is very accurate, but 34% say media they use most often is very accurate; 53% call media they use moral — Just 24 percent of Americans said they regard “the news media” as “moral,” but that number jumps to 53 percent for the media they consume often.

Discussion: American Press Institute, Columbia Journalism Review, American Press Institute, Fortune, mediainsight, @lauraelizdavis, @ylichterman, @miriamgottfried and Recode

Meg James / Los Angeles Times:

Talent agent, film producer, sports promoter, and a former Univision owner, Jerry Perenchio dies at 86 — In his long career, Jerry Perenchio, who died Tuesday at his Bel-Air home, deftly pulled the levers of power to create culturally defining media events, propel political candidates …

Discussion: Variety, Washington Post, Fresno Bee, Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, Deadline and Multichannel News

Rachael Combe / ELLE:

Profile of Maggie Haberman of The New York Times: well-sourced, with a longtime relationship with Trump, dominating the White House beat from New York City — The man with the orange hair is making a scene. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for the New York Times …

Discussion: @dandrezner, @susan_hennessey, @lpolgreen, @ananavarro, @rachel_nagler, @katierogers, @lauren_kelley, @olivianuzzi, @oliviafecteau, @lisa_b_davidson, @tyhealey, @news3jessica, @patrick_j_egan, @mattkatz00, @simonowens and The Week

Zeynep Tufekci / BuzzFeed:

Terrorism is mass murder with a media strategy and news outlets must learn to disrupt it, instead of providing endlessly looping coverage of attacks — Struggling to cover terror in the media age. — It's 2017, and the world is shaken by another depraved mass murder, carried out and claimed in the name of ISIS.

Discussion: Jon Slattery, Poynter, bookforum.com, @jayrosen_nyu, @johnsulliphoto, @ellierosetx, @joenbc, @dgardner, @charlesarthur, @ambmkimani, @michaelfinucane, @freecloud and @buzzfeedben

Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The Manchester Evening News raised £1M+ in crowdsourced donations from 30K+ people, for the families of those killed or injured in the city's terror attack

Discussion: The Guardian, USA Today, @mennewsdesk, Crowdfund Insider, The Wrap, Forbes, Variety, @kaylahounsell and Business Insider

Joe Pompeo / Politico:

Sources: Lauren Kern, executive editor at New York magazine, is named editor in chief of Apple News — THE PRESS FREEDOM INCIDENT TRACKERS MUST REALLY BE WORKING OVERTIME THESE DAYS! We shouldn't even joke, because there's nothing funny about this incident.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Wrap, New York Times, @ylichterman, @joepompeo, @jayrosen_nyu, ABC News, TheBlaze, Mediaite and Occupy Democrats

Facebook:

Facebook redesigns Trending Topics pages to make it easier for users to discover alternate news sources — Redesigned Trending Results Page — Starting today, we're introducing a redesigned Trending results page, which is the page you see when you click on a Trending topic to learn more about it.

Discussion: BetaNews, Washington Post, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, RAPPLER, Axios, INSIDER, The Next Web, Adweek, The Verge, Mashable, TechCrunch and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

The Moscow Times:

Dmitry Popkov, who reported on police corruption in Russia as editor of the Ton-M newspaper, has been shot dead — A journalist who reported on police corruption has been killed in the Russian city of Minusinsk. Dmitriy Popkov, editor-in-chief for local newspaper Ton-M …

Discussion: Associated Press, @christopherjm and @moscowtimes

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
BuzzFeed's Tasty, with 85M Facebook followers in US alone, and nearly 1B views in April, becomes the company's template for vertical content sub-brands

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FilmL.A. study: Georgia, with state incentives, led as site for feature films in 2016, with 17 films, followed by UK with 16, Canada with 13, California with 12

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Ken Kurson, the editor-in-chief of Jared Kushner's family-owned New York Observer, resigns to take job in strategic communications at Teneo

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Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios:
Imzy, a “nicer Reddit” founded in 2016 by former Reddit employees, to shut down on June 23, having raised $11M

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Jessi Hempel / Backchannel:
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Responding to Andrea Tantaros' lawsuit, Fox News requests sanctions against her lawyer and asks for the case to be dismissed with prejudice

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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Times has launched a paywalled site for lawyers called The Brief, a spin-off of an existing free email bulletin; it is priced at £4/week for new subscribers

John Koblin / New York Times:
HBO has shelved Jon Stewart's shortform animation series, blaming technical issues; the company says it is still pursuing other projects with Stewart

Discussion: Mashable, Multichannel News, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Adweek, Vanity Fair, TVLine and The Verge

Japan Times:
FT owner Nikkei partners with five other Japanese companies, including TBS, to launch a Netflix-style video streaming service, Premium Platform Japan

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