Mediagazer: Ben Jacobs, the Guardian reporter assaulted by congressional candidate Greg Gianforte, says Gianforte is refusing a promised on-the-record interview (Brian Stelter/CNNMoney)

12:05 PM ET, August 30, 2017

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

Ben Jacobs, the Guardian reporter assaulted by congressional candidate Greg Gianforte, says Gianforte is refusing a promised on-the-record interview — Reporter recounts fight with GOP candidate — Ben Jacobs, the reporter who was assaulted by Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte …

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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:

Scottish blogger Jason Michael McCann, who calls himself a journalist in his Twitter bio, defends his viral hoax tweet showing a shark in Houston's flood waters — “Of course I knew it was fake, it was part of the reason I shared the bloomin' thing.” — It was just before 6 a.m. in Dublin …

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Jack Shafer / Politico:

The Freedom Forum spent too much on the symbolic $450M Newseum rather than on supporting journalism — You know that triumphant feeling that sweeps from your brain to your toes when one of your enemies stumbles and falls into a mass of his own excrement? Such delight overwhelmed me yesterday …

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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The Newseum, dedicated to free expression and awash in red ink, becomes a metaphor for the besieged state of the American press

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Facebook to debut one of its original shows, a reality docu-series about retired athlete LaVar Ball and his family, on August 31 — Can LaVar Ball's boastful antics and familial dramas draw a TV-size audience for Facebook? — The first two episodes of “Ball in the Family” …

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Sahil Patel / Digiday:

Facebook-funded shows begin rolling out this week on Watch, as publishers including Business Insider, Tastemade, Refinery29, and Nat Geo debut original content — Facebook's latest attempt to take on YouTube begins in earnest this week as various publishers begin to roll out Facebook-funded shows on the platform.

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Reuters:

Like many journalists, Reuters staffers juggled reporting, helping others, and helping their own families while editing and writing amid Texas flooding — As flooding in Houston reached catastrophic levels from the relentless rains of Hurricane Harvey, Reuters photographer Rick Wilking …

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Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap:
Disney and its ABC television station, KTRK Houston, donate $1M to the American Red Cross to support its Harvey relief efforts

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Brian Klaas / The Hill:
The heroism of journalists in Houston, with some rescuing victims, shows they are not “enemies” of the people; Trump should apologize

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Jessica Davies / Digiday:

Axel Springer teams with German non-media companies to launch Verimi alliance, which will offer a single login to better compete with Facebook-Google duopoly — The hottest trend in German media: cross-industry alliances that prioritize consumer data privacy and aim to compete with the Facebook-Google duopoly.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

YouTube gets a redesign, including easier access to navigation tabs, new Library and Account tabs, variable speed playback on mobile, and a new logo — Earlier this year, YouTube introduced a major redesign of its desktop website which delivered a cleaner look and new features like a “dark mode” for nighttime watching.

Peter Kafka / Recode:

Apple, continuing its fight with media partners, will likely only succeed with TV when it brings its original shows to market — 4K movies? Sure. But that's not where Apple wanted to be in 2017. — Here's a head fake of a story: Apple and Hollywood studios are wrangling over pricing for …

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple scrambles to land pricing deals with Hollywood on 4K content for its upcoming Apple TV; Apple wants to charge $20/movie, studios want $5-10 more

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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:

District court judge dismisses defamation lawsuit against The New York Times by Sarah Palin for a June 14 editorial — Lawsuits against media outlets are piling up — A federal judge in Manhattan on Tuesday dismissed Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times.

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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:

Fox News hires conservative pundit Tomi Lahren as a contributor and to work on an unnamed digital project currently in development — The conservative pundit will opine on the news and will work on “an FNC digital product currently in development.” — In mid-August, conservative media …

Discussion: @esotericcd, @jbarro and The New York Observer

Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:

How journalists have ramped up security protocols for communicating with sources amid the Trump administration's fight against leaks — How the administration has changed the game between investigative reporters and their government sources. — On July 6, the Senate Committee …

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

Q&A with Medium founder Ev WIlliams on the platform's pivot away from advertising and how its new reader-powered business model will work — “What we want to do is create the best possible place to support great content. How does the best media in the world work?

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