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7:40 AM ET, July 17, 2017

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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 …
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 …
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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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: PressThink and @maggienyt
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) …
Discussion: 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 …
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.”
Discussion: @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.
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.
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
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.
Discussion: @kristenhare
 
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Behind the scenes at Fox & Friends, whose sway with Donald Trump may make it the most influential news program in the US
Katerina Eva Matsa / Pew Research Center:
Local TV news audiences declined in past decade, but in 2016 digital ad revenue rose 10% YoY, over-the-air revenue rose 11%, similar to other election years
Dave McNary / Variety:
SAG-AFTRA union reaches tentative 3-year deal with NPR, says new deal provides for salary increases and prevents NPR from setting up a two-tiered salary system
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
The New York Times asks court to toss Sarah Palin lawsuit, says there was no malice in a quickly corrected editorial claiming her PAC incited Giffords shooting
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell about how his podcast, Revisionist History, came to be, how curiosity of the medium made him transition to audio, more
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
New owner of Chicago Sun-Times plans no layoffs, will move the newsroom into the offices of Answers Media, which it has now acquired too
Discussion: Poynter and Curbed Chicago
Will Oremus / Slate:
The push for an antitrust exemption highlights the contradiction between the civic purpose and for-profit motive of newspapers
 

 
From Techmeme:

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: EU regulators are planning to fine Apple under the DMA, after it failed to let developers steer users to cheaper deals and offers outside the App Store

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Interpol says a global operation has taken down over 22,000 malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats and led to the arrest of 41 individuals
 
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