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Al Tompkins / Poynter:
Reporters, including CNN's Ed Lavandera, help rescue people stranded in Houston flood, while KHOU-TV covered the flooding as water began to seep into the studio — Hurricane Harvey may have forced the journalists at KHOU-TV to evacuate. But they didn't stop covering the storm.
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Brandi Smith KHOU, Business Insider, TVSpy, @marcelinokhou, @joshuachavers, NPR, @joannelisosky, KHOU-TV, @jimaxelrod, @margaretmoffett, @sams1stdaughter, The Federalist, Washington Post, @atompkins, @keatonfox, BuzzFeed, @chadlivengood, The Week, The Wrap, Fast Company, Mediaite and The Verge
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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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New York Times, Vanity Fair, @jason_kint, @benmullin, @kristenhare, @brianstelter, @poynter and @kristenhare
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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@katherinemiller, @zeynep, @hughhewitt, @ericliptonnyt, @ethanmayj and @cliffordlevy
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Guardian announces launch of new nonprofit, at theguardian.org, to fund its journalism; the nonprofit has raised $1M since it was quietly founded last year — The Guardian is pushing harder into philanthropy as it — like other news publishers — struggles to find a profitable model for news online.
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New York Times, @raju, Nieman Lab and The Guardian
Reveal:
During a rally in California, Reveal host Al Letson witnessed a man being attacked by Antifa protesters and threw himself in front to shield him — While covering Sunday's “Rally Against Hate” in Berkeley, California, today, Reveal host Al Letson witnessed a man being attacked by a group of protesters.
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Washington Post, NPR, The Daily Caller, Hit & Run, @scottgreenfield, @arifleischer, @danbauman77, @amy_pyle, @jamilsmith, @jeffsharlet, @deggans, @kwoodsome and AOL
Nikhil Sonnad / Quartz:
China issues new rules forbidding anonymous posts in online communities and discussion forums, effective October 1 — The Chinese government under president Xi Jinping is continuing to make life on the internet difficult for its potential detractors. Yesterday (Aug. 25) …
Yashar Ali / The Cut:
Kathy Griffin on that infamous Trump photo, First Amendment, how Jeff Zucker imposed a cap on the number of Trump jokes she made during a CNN special, and more — Kathy Griffin walked into her home office just before noon in late June, still wearing pajamas.
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The Wrap, The New York Observer, Vanity Fair, Mediaite, thecut, @peterhimler, @yashar, Splitsider, The Daily Caller, @yashar and The A.V. Club
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
A look at Breitbart now that Bannon has returned: more insight into White House internal workings, harder line on his pet issues, elevation of Matt Boyle, more — Steve Bannon was always supposed to return to Breitbart News. — When he left his job as executive chairman of the site to join …
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@mckaycoppins, @charliespiering, @rosiegray, @willsommer, @catygreen and @rosiegray
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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 says he will return to Breitbart, where he was once national security editor, in an undefined role
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Breitbart, The Hill, @mikeykaynyc, @davidoatkins, @davidlaz, @20committee, @davidwright_cnn, BuzzFeed and The Daily Caller
Mark Fazlollah / Philly.com:
Freelance journalist Christopher Allen, originally from the Philadelphia area, was killed covering South Sudan civil war — Former Lower Merion resident Christopher Allen, 26, a freelance journalist covering the civil war in South Sudan, was killed Saturday during a battle between rebels and government troops.
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Reuters, Business Insider, Al Jazeera English, CNN, Associated Press and Newser
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Hulu announces agreement with The CW Network, a joint venture between CBS and Warner Bros., on top of its agreements with NBC, FOX, ABC, and CBS — Hulu today announced a new agreement with The CW Network, a joint venture between CBS and Warner Bros., which will allow Hulu to offer the network …
Mariana Marcaletti / Nieman Lab:
How Mexico City-based Pictoline, which makes shareable graphic and video explainers, created a profitable business in a region struggling for digital traction — The majority of Pictoline's revenue — it's profitable and brought in $1 million last year — now comes from creating sponsored illustrations for advertisers.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders relies heavily on saying she'll get back to reporters when asked difficult questions, including 10 times in one briefing, but rarely does — It's a stock response of every White House press secretary who's either caught off guard or is trying to dodge a sticky question.
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@wpjenna and @maggienyt
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
An appreciation of alternative weeklies, intensely local, combative newspapers that flowered in the 1970s and are now in some distress — They wrote about rock music and marijuana, when those were actually daring things to write about. They used profanity sometimes, when even sometimes was rude and shocking.