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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
US intel officials say UAE orchestrated hacking of Qatar News Agency and social media sites in late May to plant false statements, sparking regional crisis — The United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of Qatari government news and social media sites in order to post incendiary false quotes attributed …
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Reuters, Forbes, @nawafalthani, France 24, Reuters, The Week, @emptywheel and Mother Jones, more at Techmeme »
New York Times:
President Trump was good-humored with reporters on Air Force One for an hour, in stark contrast to how he treats the news media in public — WASHINGTON — The Donald J. Trump who turned up in the press cabin of Air Force One on Wednesday evening, as his plane crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Paris …
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PressThink and @maggienyt
BBC:
The BBC's Doctor Who casts its first female Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, succeeding Peter Capaldi, who will leave during the Christmas special episode — Jodie Whittaker has been announced as Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord - the first woman to be given the role. — The new Doctor's identity …
Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
WHCA President Jeff Mason confirms Politico's Tara Palmeri was the journalist whose reporting the White House asked the WHCA to criticize — The Trump administration reportedly took issue with a Politico reporter's article. — The president of the White House Correspondents' Association …
Columbia Journalism Review:
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris on the value of listening to interviewees and why he thinks it is a bad idea for interviewers to have a list of questions — A great interview is one of the journalist's most powerful tools. It can be informative, entertaining, thoughtful.
Discussion:
Maximum Fun
The Drum:
Interview with Google's Madhav Chinnappa on the goals of the Digital News Initiative, projects like WikiTribune, and natural-language reporting tool Radar — Under fire from several quarters for an array of accusations ranging from monopolistic practices to the dissemination (and even funding) …
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blog.wan-ifra.org
Richard Goldstein / New York Times:
Bob Wolff, a sports broadcaster since 1939 who was well known for his time with Redskins, Knicks, Pistons, Browns, and Colts, dies at 96 — Bob Wolff, who called Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, the Giants-Baltimore Colts epic N.F.L. championship game in 1958 and the Knicks …
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@keitholbermann, @keitholbermann and The Wrap
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
How 126 fact-checking organizations in 49 countries use WhatsApp, Facebook Live, Twitter, automation, and forensic tools to find falsehoods and spread truth — This is a report on the fourth Global Fact-Checking Summit, which Michelle Ye Hee Lee of The Fact Checker attended. — MADRID — “Nos encanta la verdad.”
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@omidyarnetwork and @timothys
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Former Guardian Media Group and easyJet CEO Carolyn McCall appointed as ITV CEO, starts on January 8 — EasyJet boss to succeed Adam Crozier in early 2018, becoming broadcaster's first female chief executive — ITV has confirmed the appointment of Carolyn McCall as its first female chief executive.
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Variety, Press Gazette, Deadline, @tom_watson, @susannareid100, @rafat, Financial Times, Telegraph, Bloomberg, The Independent, CNBC, BBC and Financial Times
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
OMGDigital, a 7-year-old media company for African youth, boasts over 90M monthly views and has raised $1.1M from Kima Ventures, Soma Capital, others — “In the West, Cracked, BuzzFeed, and Mashable had really picked up steam. We couldn't relate to the contents; we didn't get the jokes.
A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
ABC News' Jonathan Karl elected WHCA president for 2019-2020, receiving 104 out of 265 votes cast; Dallas Morning News' Todd Gillman came second with 87 votes — The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) has elected ABC News' chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl to be its president for 2019-2020.
Discussion:
Mediaite, Media Matters for America, Politico, The Hill and Washington Examiner
Marty Kaiser / Poynter:
Interview with Billy Penn's Chris Krewson on managing a news startup: focus on readers and how to solve their problems — This is part of a series of Q and As with leaders at news organizations. I asked leaders to think about the challenges they face in their news organizations and to share guidance and advice.
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@kristenhare
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