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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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@bencjacobs, USA Today, @sahilkapur, New York Magazine, Mediaite and Business Insider
Daily Mail:
Two Daily Mail journalists were injured in Houston on Tuesday after the boat they were travelling in was electrocuted by submerged power lines — - Four volunteer rescuers are missing after their motorboat was electrocuted in Houston's Normandy neighborhood on Monday afternoon
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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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@courtneyabc13, Philly.com, Washington Post, Poynter and Vox
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 …
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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Washington Post, @cheeky_geeky, @mckaycoppins, @whet, @amyjbrittain and Vanity Fair
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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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Business Insider, Forbes and The Wrap
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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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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.
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 …
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@esotericcd, @jbarro and The New York Observer
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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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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New York Times, Deadline, @eriqgardner, @melbournecoal, Boing Boing, Mashable, The A.V. Club, Mother Jones, Real Stories, Editor & Publisher, Raw Story, @kelseymsutton, @cahnemily and Reuters