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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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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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Hamilton Nolan / Fusion:
The real threat to journalism is concentration of media in the hands of rich owners with ulterior motives — This week, one little attack on a reporter by a temporarily insane politician has us all fretting over the “Rough Treatment of Journalists in the Trump Era.” The real threat to journalism is much more insidious.
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Politico, @karltaro, @hamiltonnolan, @athertonkd, @libbycwatson and Occupy Democrats
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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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 …
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Free Press Blog, Fight for the Future, @bennjordan, Washington Post, The Guardian, HuffPost, @fightfortheftr and Bloomberg BNA
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 …
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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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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BAGnewsNotes, @lisonjoseph, @raju, @spaydl, HuffPost UK and The Daily Caller
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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”
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Leena Rao / Fortune:
Change.org raises $30M led by LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman and Bill Gates invest too — In 2006, newly minted Stanford grad Ben Rattray sat at a Starbucks in Silicon Valley, pitching LinkedIn founder and early Facebook investor Reid Hoffman to fund his idea for a political website.
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Yahoo! Finance, more at Techmeme »
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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The FOIA Project:
FOIA lawsuits reach 25-year high in April with 63 recorded and are expected to be higher in May — The latest available case-by-case records from the federal courts show that Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits challenging the withholding of records have risen since President Trump assumed office.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google warns against misusing links in syndicated, guest, and partner posts, says publishers and authors risk ranking penalty — Google's out today with a warning for anyone who is distributing or publishing content through syndication or other large-scale means: Watch your links.
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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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