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Source: Reality Leigh Winner is accused of leaking document published by The Intercept today — Barely an hour after a news organization published an article about a Top Secret National Security Agency document on Russian hacking, the Justice Department announced charges …
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DOJ charges federal government contractor Reality Leigh Winner with removing classified material from government facility and mailing it to a news outlet — A criminal complaint was filed in the Southern District of Georgia today charging Reality Leigh Winner, 25, a federal contractor from Augusta …
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple unveils macOS High Sierra with auto-play blocking and tracking protection in Safari — In addition to other announcements, Apple today has unveiled the latest version of macOS in form of macOS 10.13. The update will be available to the public later this year and includes new features …
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Todd Van Luling / HuffPost:
Senator Al Franken has canceled an upcoming appearance on Bill Maher amid controversy — “Senator Franken believes that what Bill Maher said was inappropriate and offensive," a spokesperson said. — A spokesperson for Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) confirmed to HuffPost that the senator …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
After blocking Google users from reading free articles in February, The Wall Street Journal's subscription business soared but traffic from Google plummeted 44% — Publisher says Google visitors dropped after hardening paywall — Google says ‘first click free’ good for users and publishers
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Writer Katie McHugh out at Breitbart after inflammatory tweets following London attack — Katie McHugh, the Breitbart writer who tweeted a number of incendiary remarks in the immediate aftermath of the London terror attack, is no longer with the right-wing news site, four sources familiar with the situation told CNN.
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Sources: publishers testing Facebook's mid-roll video ads are making money, when videos scale; one video with 24M views brought in $11K, after FB's 45% cut — Three months since Facebook started running ads in publishers' videos, participants are finding there's money to be made — as long as they have a ton of scale.
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Lenfest Institute to distribute $1M in grants to support local news innovation this year, focusing on ideas for major metro areas — The well-heeled Lenfest Institute for Journalism in Philadelphia plans to distribute $1 million over the rest of this year to support local news innovation projects …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Interview with Margaret Sullivan on the end of The New York Times' public editor position, criticism of media, and possible prosecution of Assange — Margaret Sullivan on the New York Times. — BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief — When the news broke that the New York Times had killed off its public editor …
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
CNN's short-form video subsidiary, Great Big Story, makes its first international expansion, to the Nordic countries — Great Big Story planted its flag firmly in Swedish soil last week. The social video network and independent CNN subsidiary has taken the wrapper off a Swedish Great Big Story homepage …
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Ad network Revcontent launches anti-fake news initiative, while working with 21 sites that post fake news — An ad network launched a new initiative to “continue the fight against fake news” at the same time it was working with 21 websites that have published fake news stories, according to a review conducted by BuzzFeed News.
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
It's official: Amazon Prime Video is coming to Apple TV later this year — The rumors were true: Amazon's video app is finally coming to Apple's TV streaming box. Today at WWDC, it was announced that Amazon Prime Video will soon be available for Apple TV.
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