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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, Detroit Free Press, @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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Poynter, @katherinemiller, @zeynep, @hughhewitt, @ericliptonnyt, @ethanmayj and @cliffordlevy
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Lurid Trump allegations made by Louise Mensch and co-writer came from hoaxer … Explosive allegations about Donald Trump made by online writers with large followings among Trump critics were based on bogus information from a hoaxer who falsely claimed to work in law enforcement.
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@noahmccormack, @ggreenwald, @dylanmatt and @jonswaine
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, The Guardian and Nieman Lab
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, Hit & Run, @scottgreenfield, The Daily Caller, @arifleischer, @danbauman77, @amy_pyle, @jamilsmith, @jeffsharlet, @deggans, @kwoodsome and AOL
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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Washington Post, Newser, People.com, AOL, Vanity Fair, thecut, @shani_o, @peterhimler, @yashar, Splitsider, @yashar, The A.V. Club, The New York Observer, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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) …
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 …
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
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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New York Magazine, @rosiegray, @willsommer, @catygreen, @mckaycoppins, @charliespiering and @rosiegray
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Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
Irdeto: 239 streams illegally distributed Saturday's Mayweather-McGregor bout, reaching about 2.93M viewers — Digital security firm identifies 239 pirated streams … Irdeto, a maker of video and digital security products, said it identified 239 streams that illegally distributed Saturday's …
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Forbes, Awful Announcing and USA Today
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.
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