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Betsy Reed / The Intercept:
First Look Media's press freedom fund is helping finance legal defense of Reality Winner, who's being prosecuted for allegedly leaking to its site The Intercept — The Intercept's parent company, First Look Media, has taken steps to provide independent support for the legal defense of Reality Winner …
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Mediaite, Common Dreams, @theintercept, @trevortimm, The Daily Caller, @mlcalderone, @auerfeld and @theintercept
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
It's heartening that The Intercept is admitting mistakes, retraining staff, and financially supporting Reality Winner, who is charged under the Espionage Act — The Intercept, a national security news site, wouldn't exist without the most famous leaker of the 21st century, Edward Snowden.
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@thekatemyers
Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Knight First Amendment Institute sues Trump for blocking Twitter users, alleging the practice amounts to an unconstitutional effort to suppress dissent — A free-speech group said on Tuesday it sued U.S. President Donald Trump for blocking Twitter users from his @realDonaldTrump account …
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Nieman Lab, knightcolumbia.org, TechCrunch, Adweek, Motherboard, The Verge and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Time Inc is considering a major rebranding that could include changing its name, a move aimed at repositioning the publisher as a modern media company — Several publishers have gotten social media blowback from recent rebranding efforts — Is time running out on one of the most fabled names in media?
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@readdanwrite, Mediawire, @taylorlorenz, @rafat and @jeremymbarr
The Guardian:
Evidence unearthed by blogger undermines History Channel doc claims about Amelia Earhart, showing alleged pic of pilot published 2 years before disappearance — Justin McCurry in Tokyo and Jamiles Lartey in New York — Claims made in a US documentary that the pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart crash-landed …
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Washington Post and The Outline
Ted Johnson / Variety:
Sparking skeptical responses, AT&T says it will join other tech and media firms in Wednesday's “day of action” protesting rollback of net neutrality rules — Senior Editor @tedstew — On Wednesday, thousands of websites, public interest groups, and internet companies are staging a …
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Wall Street Journal:
Snap's stock closes at $15.47, down 8.95%, well below its $17 IPO price, after one of its IPO's underwriters, Morgan Stanley, downgraded the stock — Snap's rough week continued Tuesday, as a bank that led its initial public offering slashed its price target for the Snapchat parent's stock.
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CNBC, The Wrap, Radio & Television …, Vanity Fair and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
Washington Post:
Despite claiming that it had no role in making and soliciting sex ads on its site, Backpage used a Philippine contractor to lure such ads from competitors — A contractor for the controversial classifieds website Backpage.com has been aggressively soliciting and creating sex-related ads …
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@repmaloney and @fair_girls
Hadas Gold / Politico:
The White House asked the White House Correspondents' Association to release a statement criticizing a reporter's story, WHCA President Jeff Mason has claimed — The White House asked the White House Correspondents' Association to single out a reporter and criticize an article, WHCA President Jeff Mason said Monday evening.
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@pareene, @john_hudson and @tvietor08
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Trudy Lieberman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Health reporters: Secrecy, speed, and Twitter changed coverage of GOP bill — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is overseeing GOP efforts to pass new health-care legislation. Gage Skidmore, via Flickr. — IN A RECENT STORY FOR The Atlantic, Kaiser Health News reporter Julie Rovner decried the …
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@sciencewriters, @usprojectcjr and @usprojectcjr
Richard Horgan / Adweek:
Hearst Magazines' international arm is partnering with an Indian company to open a chain of whiskey lounges in the country under Esquire magazine's brand — Starting with a location in central Delhi scheduled for 2018 — Here's an interesting twist on the international management of a brand-name U.S. magazine.
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Fact-checking site Snopes is locked in a legal battle with a small digital services company, Proper Media, over control of Snopes' parent company — The owner of Snopes is locked in a legal battle with a small digital services company for control of the popular debunking site.
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