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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.’
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Manish Singh / NDTV Gadgets 360:
Facebook bid $600M for online streaming rights of a popular cricket tournament in India for 5 years but was outbid by Star India — As Facebook gets serious about video, the social giant's ambitions for live streaming were on display on Monday in India where it put a bid north of $600 million …
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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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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Popular YouTube ripping site, YouTube-MP3, settles with RIAA and will shut down indefinitely — YouTube-MP3, the world's leading YouTube ripping site, has agreed to shut down indefinitely and hand over its domain to the RIAA. A private settlement agreement, including an undisclosed payment …
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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?"
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Violet Blue / Engadget:
Tests show phrases like “I am a gay black woman” deemed “toxic” by Google Jigsaw's Perspective AI tool used by some publishers to weed out abusive comments — A recent, sprawling Wired feature outlined the results of its analysis on toxicity in online commenters across the United States.
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@mr_trout, @paulbernaluk, @elronxenu and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
Richard C. Paddock / New York Times:
The Cambodia Daily is to close after 24 years, after the country's government demanded it pay a $6.3M tax bill; the paper says the bill is inflated — PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — For the reporters and editors of The Cambodia Daily, an independent newspaper, Sunday was the end of an era …
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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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Melanie Sill / Poynter Online:
Ideas for sustained Texas reporting after the crisis: collaborations, philanthropic support for journalism, fellowships, perhaps a pop-up newsroom — The body of the article goes here.
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Alex Thompson / VICE News:
How podcasts like Pod Save America, fueled by a feverish distaste for Donald Trump, are becoming the left's right-wing talk radio — Left-wing talk radio is here. But it's not on the radio. — Fueled by a feverish distaste for Donald Trump and a distrust of mainstream media …
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@mccarthyryanj and @shadowingtrump
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.
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@killoughcnn, @davezeitlin, @pink_funk and @oliverdarcy
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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@digidave, @terryparrisjr and @niemanlab
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 …