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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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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, @jason_kint, @brianstelter, @benmullin, @poynter, @kristenhare 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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@ethanmayj, @hughhewitt, @zeynep, @cliffordlevy and @ericliptonnyt
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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, @emilydreyfuss, @vabvox, @jeffhauser, @williamturton, @cwarzel, @dangillmor, @amandamull, @bafeldman, @zeynep, @jhweissmann, The Hill, Forbes, New York Magazine, Net Worked, @derekwillis and @mlcalderone, more at Techmeme »
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) …
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TechCrunch, Softpedia News, The Diplomat, CHINAdaily, Financial Times and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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, @davidlaz, @mikeykaynyc, @davidoatkins, BuzzFeed, @20committee, @davidwright_cnn 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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Associated Press, CNN, Al Jazeera English and Newser
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.
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 …
Rod McGuirk / Associated Press:
CBS Corp. to buy troubled Australian TV broadcaster Ten Network Holdings, pending approval, amid large losses and scrambling to cut costs at Ten — https://apnews.com/121120229cad4bbeb989 262e3412de3a — Link copied! — CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Troubled Australian television broadcaster Ten Network …
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Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, finance.nine.com.au, Variety, CBS Corporation and Financial Times
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
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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