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11:15 PM ET, September 3, 2017

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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 …
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 …
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” …
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.
Discussion: NewsWhip
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.
Discussion: The New York Observer
 
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Profile of The Cipher Brief, launched two years ago by a former CNN executive producer and focusing on national security with a staff of 20, plus contributors
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The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, the first time in 50+ years that the FTC has issued a regulation mandating an economy-wide change

Victoria Song / The Verge:
Meta rolls out multimodal AI in early access for the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, mainly to help identify objects, translate signs, and write Instagram captions

Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft debuts Phi-3 Mini, a small 3.8B-parameter model about as capable as GPT-3.5, and plans Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium models with 7B and 14B parameters
 
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