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Dave Lawler / Axios:
Greg Gianforte wins Montana House seat in special election after being charged with assault, apologizes to Ben Jacobs in victory speech — Roughly 24 hours after being charged with assault, Republican Greg Gianforte was elected as Montana's next congressman.
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Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:
CJR begins publicly logging incidents when norms that protect press freedom in the US have been pushed — Every few days, Donald Trump issues a new threat against the press. — Some are minor-essentially, name calling and common complaints about coverage-while others are harder to dismiss.
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AJ Vicens / Mother Jones:
Citizen Lab report details how emails phished from journalist critical of Russia were falsified, then leaked for disinformation campaign; 200+ others targeted — Citizen Lab, a Toronto-based human rights research group that focuses on cyber security and surveillance, issued a report Thursday offering …
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Nieman Lab, The Citizen Lab, Forbes, Motherboard, Ars Technica, @ericgeller, @michaeldweiss and Gizmodo
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
14 people who say their names were used as part of 450K anti-net neutrality comments without permission ask FCC for public disclosure, removal of fake comments — FCC should investigate and throw out fake comments, impersonation victims say. — Fourteen people who say their names …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Source: Sean Hannity's pushing of the Seth Rich theory became a source of tension inside Fox News, a test of his relations with the network — Cars.com and a handful of sponsors have pulled their ads from the Fox News star's nightly opinion show after he advanced a conspiracy theory …
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
At least seven advertisers have said they will pull ads from Sean Hannity's show on Fox News — Several advertisers have pulled TV spots over the ‘Hannity’ host's reporting on Seth Rich, while conservatives are mounting a counter-boycott. — As more reporters and activists contact companies …
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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
New York Times public editor supports the paper's decision to publish leaked Manchester photos, saying the material is “unquestionably compelling” — Around midday on Wednesday, The New York Times published several photographs showing, in eerie detail, the makeshift shrapnel …
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Steven Hopkins / HuffPost UK:
The New York Times defends running leaked Manchester bombing photos, saying its coverage has been “comprehensive and responsible”
James Ball / BuzzFeed:
President Trump has ordered the DOJ to launch an inquiry into leaks about the Manchester attack investigation, saying the culprit should be prosecuted
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The Guardian, NPR, TheBlaze, HuffPost, The Guardian, Fast Company, Washington Post, @jimwaterson and @patrickwintour
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
The 7 highest-paid CEOs in the US last year were all in media, including Thomas Rutledge of Charter, Les Moonves of CBS, and Jeff Bewkes of Time Warner — You can make a ton of money in the media business, especially if you're a CEO. — That's the main takeaway from a new study by the AP …
Nicole Sinclair / Yahoo! Finance:
Disney CEO Bob Iger says company was not hacked, and the threat of releasing a stolen movie appears fake: “we don't believe that it was real” — Disney (DIS) Chairman and CEO Bob Iger said that recent reports that Disney was hacked were inaccurate. — “To our knowledge we were not hacked,” Iger told Yahoo Finance.
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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Interview with Nick Thompson, editor in chief of Wired, on moving to a paid content model, changes to the print magazine, more — Nick Thompson is shaking things up at the iconic magazine — Adweek: I recently read that when you worked at Wired the first time, as a senior editor from 2005 to 2010 …
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BBC:
UK columnist and broadcaster Katie Hopkins will leave her show on LBC radio after her controversial tweet on the Manchester attack — Broadcaster Katie Hopkins is to leave her show on LBC “immediately”, the radio station has said. — The presenter, who first rose to prominence as a contestant …
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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Spotify adds four directors to its board, including former Disney COO Tom Staggs and YouTube's former head of product, Shishir Mehrotra — Appointment of former Disney COO Tom Staggs hints at ambitions in streaming video — Read next … Spotify, the music streaming service …
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