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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
EPA accuses AP reporter of “incredibly misleading story” that said staff were not present at Houston's flooded toxic waste sites yet confirms story's key points — The agency accused the reporter of an ‘incredibly misleading story’ about its Harvey response ‘from the comfort of Washington.’
Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC:
SEC: Roku files for up to $100M IPO; Roku had $399M revenue in fiscal 2016, up 25% from 2015 — Streaming device company Roku filed for a public offering on Friday, looking to raise up to $100 million. — The stock will list on the Nasdaq under the symbol “ROKU.”
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
A challenge for Roku's IPO: Netflix and YouTube are huge on Roku, but they don't make Roku any money — The streaming video box company wants to be a streaming video services company. But someone has to pay them for that. — Roku has spent the last few years fighting for your living room …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
The history of The New York Times' op-ed page shows it was created to make readers think: going too far is better than not going far enough — Who wants the opinion pages to turn into the agreement pages? — In recent months, New York Times readers brave enough to open the paper's op-ed pages …
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Leah Finnegan / The Outline:
The New York Times op-ed page under James Bennet has become a troll, deliberately instigating anger and spreading disinformation — Controversial pieces run under the auspices of fomenting ‘conversation’ are done so disingenuously. — Leah letter — Controversial pieces run under …
Dave Zeitlin / The Pennsylvania Gazette:
Profile of Washington Post White House reporter Ashley Parker, whose deeply sourced stories have made her a well-known figure in the political world — Ashley Parker C'05 sometimes wonders if Twitter is rotting her brain, especially when it hits her first thing in the morning.
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
ProPublica creates its first Facebook Messenger bot, to collect readers' stories about hate speech on Facebook — Can a Facebook Messenger bot used to collect stories from readers also double as a new form of storytelling? ProPublica thinks so. — The big tech companies have long clung …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Hillary Frey, the head of strategy for HuffPost who conceived of and is overseeing the company's Listen to America tour — “If we're going to put new reporters in different regions, strategically where should they be? What will they be covering? What matters to these communities?"
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Two years after launching, Ars Technica UK lets go all but one permanent staffer — Condé Nast Britain is winding down its digital-only brand Ars Technica in the U.K. The magazine publisher, which debuted the technology-focused site in the U.K. two years ago, has all but ceased its U.K. operations …
Reuters:
North Korean court sentences two South Korean journalists and their publishers to death for their reviews of book, “North Korea Confidential” — SEOUL (Reuters) - A North Korean court sentenced two South Korean journalists and their publishers to death for “seriously insulting the dignity” …
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International Business Times, The Korea Times, Newsweek, Committee to Protect … and The Daily Caller
Ian Burrell / The Drum:
NewsWhip research shows Associated Press content generates almost 35M engagements/month on Facebook, beating any single publisher — New research reveals that the bedrock of journalism on Facebook is far more stable than one might have thought of a news environment stigmatised by rampant clickbait and fake stories.
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Jordan Cohen / The New York Times Company:
The New York Times appoints Janet Elder to build an operation allowing it to to seek philanthropic funding for more ambitious projects — Janet Elder, one of The Times's most esteemed newsroom leaders, will build an operation that will allow The Times to seek philanthropic funding for ambitious journalism.
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