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7:05 AM ET, August 28, 2017

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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 …
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.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Newspapers drop paywalls and TV networks add hours for news as Hurricane Harvey soaks Texas
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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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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
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 …
 
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