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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Inside Houston's Space City Weather, a side project by Eric Berger, Ars Technica's senior space editor, covering flooding with a neighbor's voice — On a slow weather day, Space City Weather gets about 5,000 pageviews. On Friday, as Hurricane Harvey stewed in the Gulf before dumping catastrophic amounts …
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Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
A first-person account of the Houston flooding by a New York Times reporter as water inundates his home — BELLAIRE, Tex, — I have covered as many as five wars on two continents, but nothing prepared me for when the big story collided with me and my family.
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@hughhewitt, @ericliptonnyt, @cliffordlevy and @ethanmayj
ESPN:
Pay-per-view issues delay Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight — The Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor main event Saturday night in Las Vegas will be delayed due to pay-per-view outages. — “Due to the overwhelming demand, capacity of cable systems around the country are being overwhelmed.
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Former White House aide Sebastian Gorka says he will return to Breitbart, where he was once national security editor, in an undefined role — Former White House aide Sebastian Gorka said Saturday he will return to Breitbart News, reuniting him with longtime ally and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
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The Hill, @mikeykaynyc, @davidoatkins, @davidlaz, BuzzFeed, @20committee, @davidwright_cnn and The Daily Caller
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Facebook hires Liz Spayd, former New York Times public editor, as a consultant to help with its “transparency” efforts — She has also worked at the Washington Post and Columbia Journalism Review as a top editor. — Facebook has recently hired former New York Times public editor Liz Spayd …
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Gizmodo, The Hill, @emilydreyfuss, @vabvox, @jeffhauser, @williamturton, @cwarzel, @dangillmor, @amandamull, @bafeldman, @zeynep, @jhweissmann, Forbes, New York Magazine, Net Worked, @derekwillis and @mlcalderone, more at Techmeme »
Nick Stockton / Wired:
The urgency of the news cycle since the election has created a new type of anxiety: news FOMO — Where were you when covfefe happened? I was deep in middle-seat torpor on a red-eye to New York City. By the time I had touched down and wended my way through the outer boroughs to a desk …
Gary Baum / Hollywood Reporter:
Profile of Cooper Hefner, Playboy's chief creative officer, as the magazine brings back nudity and attempts to go upmarket — Cooper Hefner has assumed creative control at the brand his father launched 64 years ago as he brings nude images back to the magazine while lamenting the company's involvement …
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Li Yuan / Wall Street Journal:
Toutiao, a Chinese news aggregator that uses deep learning to tailor feeds to individual users, says it has 120M DAUs and made $900M revenue in 2016 — Apps that supply news streams tailored to individual users by algorithms are China's fastest-growing mobile segment
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@wsj and @edwardroussel
Tyler Fisher / Politico:
How partisan Twitter users saw and shared different narratives of Charlottesville — How partisan Twitter users saw and shared different narratives of Charlottesville and the aftermath. — After violence erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, media coverage differed on what aspect of the event to cover.
Ben Knight / Deutsche Welle:
Germany orders leftist website Linksunten, a subdomain of Indymedia, shut down for sowing hate, treating site as an “association”, not a news outlet — Germany has banned and raided an independent news website popular with left-wing readers. Officials found linksunten.indymedia.org's …
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New York Times, @ferdeline, @ggreenwald, @dangillmor, Hit & Run and New York Magazine
New Statesman:
The Saudi-led coalition controlling access to Yemen has choked media access, making it almost impossible to report on the conflict — The conflict is not getting anything like the media attention it deserves. — This article has been co-authored by Ahmed Baider, a fixer based in Yemen's capital Sana'a …
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@thewolfreports and Committee to Protect …
Alison Flood / The Guardian:
The New York Times pulls young adult novel Handbook for Mortals from bestseller list after reports of fake sales — Lani Sarem's Handbook for Mortals was taken off the No 1 spot after fellow YA authors, sceptical of ‘a book that no one has heard of’, uncovered a pattern of strategic preorders
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