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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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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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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


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 per cent 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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Ahead of UK and German elections, Facebook's role in political advertising and misinformation falls under scrutiny — Lawrence Dodd lives in one of Britain's most fiercely fought voting districts, and has been peppered almost daily with ads from the country's major political parties on Facebook.
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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.


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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Cisco: online video is expected to triple bandwidth consumption in the next five years — What the internet will look like in 2021. — An explosion of online video is expected to triple bandwidth consumption in the next five years. — Internet video consumption will make up 82 percent …


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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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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Case study: researchers show how a story moved from a parody site in 2014 to Facebook, then Russian TV, two British tabloids and on to Fox News in 2017 — Made up Russian attack on U.S. ship Invented a quote from a U.S. Air Force general Reprinted article with only hints of skepticism
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The Outline, @davidfrum, Boing Boing and Washington Post


Alt-right's Jack Posobiec and Chuck Johnson claim Breitbart is caving to the left and losing influence, cite resignation of Milo Yiannopoulos as turning point — On Monday morning, Breitbart News fired staffer Katie McHugh, following a series of incendiary weekend tweets broadcast in the wake of the London Bridge terror attack.