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Source: Reality Leigh Winner is accused of leaking document published by The Intercept — 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 against a 25-year-old government contractor …
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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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Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
How authorities used search history, email records, and printer tracking dots to bring charges against accused leaker Reality Winner — Criminal investigations into national security leaks tend to be long, complicated and delicate affairs. Sources generally cover their tracks …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
A look at key Apple updates for publishers, including HomePod, Safari's autoplay-blocking, iOS 11, Apple News-Siri sync, and more — Apple, like Google, is using its position in the browser market to try to control elements of the advertising market. — Apple went the first five full months …
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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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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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Search Engine Land, @jackmarshall, @gerryfsmith, @gerryfsmith, @benmullin and @jackmarshall
Todd Van Luling / HuffPost:
Senator Al Franken has canceled an upcoming appearance on HBO's Real Time with 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 …
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
The Sewanee Review, a small 125-year-old literary quarterly, aims for a revival with a new editor, novelist Adam Ross — Adam Ross was more than 100 pages into a new novel about a child actor in 1970s New York when a rare opportunity came up. The Sewanee Review, a 125-year-old literary journal …
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@electriclit, @chaykak, @dorothyps and @my19thcentury
Shaun Walker / The Guardian:
Russian court drops charges against Guardian reporter Alec Luhn, detained while covering a Moscow protest in March — Alec Luhn was detained by police while covering a protest in Moscow organised by opposition politician Alexei Navalny — A Moscow court has dropped charges …
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@shaunwalker7, @danielsschearf, @nataliaantonova and @mattserweketv
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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@jackmarshall, Business Insider, @jamiemottram and @dmuse
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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