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Brian Lowry / CNNMoney:
Review: Megyn Kelly's Alex Jones interview articulated a tough enough case and cross-examination to warrant giving Jones and Infowars mainstream exposure — Jones vs. Kelly: battle between new & old media — Megyn Kelly stepped into a hornet's nest with her Alex Jones interview …
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Kent Walker / Google:
Google's new anti-extremist steps: targeted AI algo training, more content flaggers, no inflammatory video monetization, ads targeting potential ISIS recruits — Editor's Note: This post appeared as an op-ed in the Financial Times earlier today. — Terrorism is an attack on open societies …
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Ken Doctor / TheStreet:
Group led by Eisendrath may have the edge over Tronc at buying Wrapports, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Reader, because of antitrust concerns — Credit the Cubbies. — The Chicago Sun-Times, long the struggling second newspaper of the city, managed to about break even in 2016 …
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Lucia Graves / The Guardian:
Inside Trump's and Murdoch's symbiotic relationship, which began when Murdoch bought the New York Post in 1976 and stems solely from the pursuit of power — Trump has been good business for the media mogul, but their association goes back decades and stems from one thing: ‘These men value only power’
Stephanie Russell-Kraft / Columbia Journalism Review:
Account of a reporter who was fired by Reuters after lawyer for Law360 complained about the non-compete she signed — Image via Pixabay. — There's a silent scourge creeping around newsrooms, one with origins in trade publications and tech-led new media: non-compete agreements.
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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
News Literacy Project's Checkology, an online portal for teaching students how to be savvy news consumers, is now used by 6,300 teachers serving 947K students — FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD ISABEL CATALAN stares intently at her laptop as she walks me through a recent assignment one sunny morning a few weeks before summer vacation.
Jim Waterson / BuzzFeed:
Amid the UK election, left-wing hyperpartisan sites that blended activism with journalism gained audiences that rivaled the biggest newspapers — The Sun and the Daily Mail sell 3 million copies a day between them. But their decades-long claim to dominating public opinion may have finally come to an end.
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Alexander Nazaryan / Newsweek:
Profile of Breitbart News, which helped elect Trump but is now going through an awkward identity crisis as its grapples with its newfound establishment status — Tradition rules journalism as much as it rules golf, and tradition dictated that the White House press room was for upstanding men …
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Elon Green / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Rahawa Haile wrote her memoir, Going It Alone, about hiking the Appalachian Trail for Outside magazine — Photo courtesy of Rahawa Haile. — The first time I read “Going It Alone,” Rahawa Haile's memoir of her Appalachian Trail thru-hike for Outside, I was surprised the piece was so much more about race than nature.
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Media accelerator Matter launches seventh startup class, with members exploring secure messaging, new kinds of social networks, searchable podcasts, and more — Matter focused on five areas in selecting its new class: diversity and inclusion, security, emerging technology, trust in media, and going beyond advertising.
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
A look at Task & Purpose, the veterans-focused site that grew out of a jobs board; launched in 2014, it now has 10 full-time staff writers — The veterans-focused site, born out of a jobs board, is expanding beyond its original conception with original reporting, a growing staff of full-time writers, and its own revenue streams.
Newsweek:
Producers of Risk, a documentary about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, condemn cease and desist letter from WikiLeaks lawyers to distributors — We are the producers of Risk , a documentary film about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. — We unequivocally defend WikiLeaks' journalistic right to publish true and newsworthy information.
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