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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Al Jazeera Media Network says it is under cyberattack, following Tuesday's revelation that Russian hackers may have breached the Qatar state news agency — Al Jazeera Media Network was in the midst of a cyberattack on Thursday, Al Jazeera News said on Twitter.
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Kevin Ponniah / BBC:
Experts believe that the current diplomatic crisis in Qatar imperils Al Jazeera, which may not be closed but whose editorial policies could change — Qatar's Al Jazeera media network has undoubtedly put the tiny Gulf state on the international map. — It is the showpiece of the oil …
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Saudi Arabia revokes Al Jazeera's license to operate in the country, orders its office to close — The Saudi Ministry of Media should immediately reverse its order to close the office of Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera and allow the satellite channel and all news media to operate freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
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Arab News, @pressfreedom, Arabian Business and Reporters Without Borders
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Comey says he authorized a “close friend” at Columbia Law School to leak the content of his Trump memo to the press to prompt a special counsel investigation — Shortly after his dismissal as head of the FBI, James Comey authorized “a close friend” to leak the contents of his memos …
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Washington Post:
A look at how cable news chyrons from MSNBC, CNN, and Fox covered the Comey hearing — Coverage of former FBI director James B. Comey's testimony looks about the same across cable news channels. A closeup of a senator forming a question, a wide show of the room — there's just not much to show on TV.
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Politico, @hadas_gold, @gabbilevy, @kelseymsutton, @lkherman and @chiquiesteban
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Sources: Verizon will cut about 15% of AOL-Yahoo staff, or as many as 2.1K jobs, after merger closes — The proportion of jobs being made redundant across AOL and Yahoo is around 15 percent globally, we have confirmed with our sources. — This shakes out to as many as 2,100 jobs being lost as part of the corporate merger.
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Matt Weinberger / Business Insider:
Yahoo shareholders officially approve $4.48B sale to Verizon; deal will close on June 13th
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Bloomberg, Seeking Alpha, Reuters and @bendwalsh, more at Techmeme »
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Upbeat PR raises $1.5M to offer membership based PR service to clients, appropriate and targeted pitches to journalists — “Our goal has been to just start from the ground up: If you were to design a PR agency today, from a software engineer's perspective, how would you approach it?"
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@niemanlab, @paulg, @edzitron, @laurahazardowen, @nwquah, PRX, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Rani Molla / Recode:
Cisco: online video is expected to triple bandwidth consumption in the next five years — What the internet will look like in 2021. — Video will make up 82 percent of all internet traffic in 2021, according to forecasts released today by Cisco, which sells networking equipment.
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@recode and @sub8u, more at Techmeme »
David Cohen / Adweek:
TNT will stream drama series Claws on Twitter directly after its premier on June 11, the network's first-ever streaming of a basic cable drama — U.S. Twitter users will be able to access the stream and a curated timeline of related tweets via claws.twitter.com or @ClawsTNT
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Multichannel News, Broadway World, Fierce Cable, TVGuide.com, TV Insider, Deadline and Cord Cutters News
Daniel Sieberg / Google:
Google is supporting an initiative, in partnership with the World Bank and Code For Africa, that aims to train 6K+ journalists in 12 African cities by Feb. 2018 — For journalists, recent advances in digital technology present compelling new opportunities to discover, tell and share stories …
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IOL, TechFinancials, @siebergd and @googlemaron
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
A look at The Eyes of War, a crowdfunded conflict-zone reporting project that has helped Italy's Il Giornale paper fund 90 trips across the world since 2013 — “We're a news site so we need to cover these things, but there's not a lot of money to do everything.
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
Greg Gianforte apologizes to Ben Jacobs for his conduct, says he will donate $50K to CPJ; Jacobs says he has “accepted” the apology — Congressman-elect issues apology to Ben Jacobs over ‘unprofessional, unacceptable, unlawful’ actions as he faces criminal charges over the incident
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