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Sopan Deb / New York Times:
Amid Irma, some question the value of TV reporters broadcasting in hurricanes; others say visuals are essential to persuade people to take threats seriously — Early Sunday morning, Bill Weir, a veteran CNN correspondent, was talking to the anchor Chris Cuomo in the middle of a live shot in Key Largo …
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Indira Lakshmanan / Poynter:
Lack of public audits on recent editorial failures by CNN and Fox News erode viewers' trust and raises questions about their processes — In a nondescript training room above the newsroom in the old New York Times building, five reporters, two researchers and two editors labored around …
Lisa de Moraes / Deadline:
Actress Melissa McCarthy won an Emmy on Sunday night for her portrayal of ex-White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live — Here's hoping President Donald Trump tweets about Melissa McCarthy being a no-show at tonight's Creative Arts Emmy Awards, when she won her second Emmy …
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Variety, Refinery29 and Business Insider
Lucia Graves / The Guardian:
Continuing Wall Street Journal newsroom leaks show editors keep pushing reporters to moderate criticism of President Trump — Dozens have left the paper in the past year and interviews with current and ex-staffers show outrage over pressure from management to normalize Trump
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@maggienyt, @jmartnyt and Editor & Publisher
James Warren / Poynter:
WaPo's aggressive investment in video journalism, with video chief Micah Gelman's staff growing from 40 to 60 this year, is paying off in hurricane coverage — Video and radar ruled media coverage of Hurricane Irma on Sunday, with the Washington Post providing a tidy case study …
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Vanity Fair
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Amid unanswered questions on reach, content of Russian ads, Zuckerberg should testify before Congress on how Facebook can be used to influence political process — Last week, after what must have been a series of extremely grim meetings in Menlo Park, Facebook admitted publicly that part …
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Washington Post, @ronfein, @kerrymflynn, @profcarroll, ThinkProgress and MediaFile, more at Techmeme »
Yahoo:
The FBI is investigating Sputnik News Agency for violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; the agency questioned the site's former White House corr — WASHINGTON — The FBI recently questioned a former White House correspondent for Sputnik, the Russian-government-funded news agency …
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Newser, VICE News, Talking New Media, @agfhome, @inteloperator, @ericgarland, @agfhome, @natashabertrand, Business Insider, Axios, The Week and The Daily Caller
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The Emerson Collective funded a full-time rural reporter for the Texas Observer, as important-but-neglected rural reporting dwindles across the nation — Washington journalists may be obsessed with President Trump's Russia connections. Silicon Valley reporters may be focused on the next big tech merger.
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@rosecahalan, @ncruralcenter, @caseyriankelly, The Guardian, @forrest4trees, @ruralj and The Rural Blog
Trudy Lieberman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Healthcare reporters say they experience new difficulties covering their beat under Trump's DHHS, including insufficient or nonexistent responses to questions — Washington Post healthcare reporter Paige Winfield Cunningham recently raised a few serious questions about how the Trump administration planned …
Katie Roof / TechCrunch:
Uber's new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is stepping down from the New York Times' board of directors, citing his new role as the reason — Dara Khosrowshahi, the recently named CEO of Uber, is leaving the New York Times Company's board of directors. — According to a government filing …
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Fast Company
Mike Shields / Business Insider:
After bringing in more than $500M in 2016, Vevo says it expects 130% growth this year and has locked in nearly $200M in upfront ad buys — - Vevo - the so-called Hulu for music videos - is seeing a surge in audience, thanks to artists like Taylor Swift. — Since embracing a TV-like selling model …
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John Patrick Pullen / Fortune:
How Oregon-based amateur photographer Kristi McCluer captured golfers playing in front of the Eagle Creek wildfire — For days, a photo of three golfers putting near what appears to be the setting of Dante's Inferno in Oregon has been making its rounds on the Internet …