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Robert Booth / The Guardian:
Irish Sunday Times removes column by Kevin Myers that suggested two BBC presenters earn more because they are Jewish, says Myers will not write for them again — Kevin Myers, in Irish edition, suggested Vanessa Feltz and Claudia Winkleman earned more because they were Jewish
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Post-Gawker, fear is causing news outlets to self-censor and turn down stories, like one on R. Kelly that came from months-long probe but was rejected by 3 orgs — Call it the Gawker Effect. — After Jim DeRogatis, the veteran Chicago rock critic, reported for months on a stunning story …
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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Apple removes all major VPN apps from the App Store in China; the apps allowed users to bypass China's internet censorship — The Chinese government's crackdown on the internet continues with the news that Apple has removed all major VPN apps, which help internet users overcome …
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James Warren / Vanity Fair:
How the rivalry between The New York Times and The Washington Post has evolved in the Trump era, when some question basic notions of authority and fact — Breaking story after story, two great American newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post, are resurgent, with record readerships.
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Wall Street Journal:
Charter Communications says it isn't interested in buying Sprint, rebuffing the merger offer and ending several weeks of deal talks between companies — Sprint had proposed a merger with Charter Communications to create a media and communications giant that would be controlled by Japan's SoftBank Group.
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
The San Diego Union-Tribune partners with GoFundMe to launch crowdfunding campaigns for the subjects of its articles — Earlier this month, The San Diego Union-Tribune launched an unusual experiment: asking readers to become small-scale philanthropists. Partnering with crowdfunding platform GoFundMe …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
eMarketer: Roku will have 38.9M MAUs in 2017, up 19% YoY, compared to 36.9M for Chromecast, 35.8M for Amazon Fire TV, and 21.3M for Apple TV — Roku may be the most-used connected TV device this year, edging out Chromecast, Fire TV and Apple TV, according to a new 2017 forecast from eMarketerreleased this morning.
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed:
Current and former SoundCloud employees describe the factors leading to its decline, including its attempt to compete head-on with music streaming giants — SoundCloud was once a platform beloved by listeners and creators, whose leaders hoped to revolutionize the music industry.
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Katherine Goldstein / Nieman Reports:
To attract and retain millennial journalists, newsrooms must better meet the needs of parents with young kids and create better work-life balance for everyone — If news organizations want to attract and retain millennial journalists, newsrooms must better meet the needs of parents with young children …
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Q&A with the 98-year-old science editor of The San Francisco Chronicle, David Perlman, who's retiring after nearly seven decades at the newspaper — David Perlman was born in 1918 — a decade before the discovery of penicillin and the Big Bang Theory. — And, for the majority of his career …
Andrew Buncombe / The Independent:
Ksenija Pavlovic, the journalist who defiantly streamed audio of a White House press briefing, drew on her experience growing up under a dictatorship — ‘I watched colleagues lose their lives fighting for the freedom of the press’ — A Washington reporter who briefly became a celebrity …
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Otherworld, an experimental service in Manchester funded by Google's Digital News Initiative, uses beacons to deliver silent alerts, including from local news — The experiment uses beacon technology to send people news and push notifications about what is happening in the area near them
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