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Al Jazeera English:
Israel's communication minister asks parliament for authority to revoke media credentials of Al Jazeera journalists and close the network's office in Jerusalem — Request made by the country's communication minister targets both the network's Arabic and English channels.
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox News suspends Eric Bolling while it investigates reports that he sent lewd photos to female colleagues — Fox News has suspended Eric Bolling following the report last night about allegations he send lewd photos to female colleagues. — Mediaite received the following statement from Fox News:
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Jason Silverstein / New York Daily News:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: “We don't prosecute reporters for doing their jobs”, won't rule out prosecutions, says no policies have been revised yet — The Justice Department likely won't be going after journalists for publishing leaks on the Trump administration …
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@reliablesources, @devlinbarrett, @ggreenwald, Business Insider, @mkraju, Reuters and The Week
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Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the DoJ is reviewing its policy on media subpoenas as part of a crackdown on leaks — “We will not allow rogue anonymous sources with security clearances to sell out our country," the attorney general said Friday. — Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Friday …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Leaks must be handled with care, but they're necessary, and leakers and journalists who depend on them should be honored, not jailed
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@digiphile, @adamgoldmannyt and @sangernyt
Ken Doctor / TheStreet:
Six major US newspaper companies demand that LexisNexis stop distributing their content to media monitoring organizations — Six major U.S. newspaper companies have demanded that LexisNexis, a major aggregator and distributor of news content, stop business practices that the publishers …
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Nieman Lab
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Columbia Journalism School is launching a new master of science in data journalism, the school's fourth degree, for just just under $100K — Say a highly-placed source has a mountain of incriminating data they want to make public. Who are they going to send it to?
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@kreissdaniel
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Monocle launches short-run, 48-page, summer print newspaper, financed through ads and preorders with issues available on newsstands for £5 — “We've spent a lot of time looking at the state of the international news market and looking at what's working and what's not working …
Eric Johnson / Recode:
Tonia O'Connor, Univision's newly appointed CRO, says some of the former Gawker verticals will get shows on Fusion TV — Tonia O'Connor, Univision's newly appointed CRO, says some of the former Gawker verticals, now called Gizmodo Media, will get shows on Fusion TV.
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Chartbeat adds subscriber analytics to its dashboard — the “single most requested feature” — Do paying users behave differently than non-paying users? — Heads up, Chartbeat users: if you've ever wished for a way to see how subscribers respond to content differently than non-subscribers, your wish has now been granted.
Discussion:
Poynter and Chartbeat Blog
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Facebook tests showing posts from local politicians in News Feed even for users not following those politicians, at most once per week — You may soon see posts from politicians you don't follow. — Facebook is testing a new feature that inserts posts from local politicians into users' News Feeds …
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Engadget and Adweek, more at Techmeme »
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
The public-records battle by a Raycom-owned TV station for officials' text messages highlights all-too-common hurdles reporters can face in FOIA disputes — A PAIR OF NORTH CAROLINA sheriff's offices, in Ashe and Union counties, have a couple things in common.
Discussion:
The Charlotte Observer, @coreyhutchins and @ncopengov
Harun Maruf / Voice of America:
Somalia's National University to reopen its journalism school for the first time in 26 years, with classes beginning as soon as next month — Being a journalist in Somalia carries both risk and reward. The risk comes from al-Shabab militants and other armed groups who have killed …
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