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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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Yahoo:
The FBI is investigating Sputnik News Agency for violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act; agency questioned site's former White House correspondent — WASHINGTON — The FBI recently questioned a former White House correspondent for Sputnik, the Russian-government-funded news agency …
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RT, Newser, @selectedwisdom, @michaeldweiss, Washington Examiner, Business Insider, @agfhome, @agfhome, @inteloperator, @ericgarland, @natashabertrand, VICE News, Axios, The Daily Caller and The Week
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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 …
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@indira_l
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, @profcarroll, @kerrymflynn, @pierre, ThinkProgress and MediaFile, more at Techmeme »
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 and @joannastern
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, Business Insider and Refinery29
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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Editor & Publisher
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Discovery, Viacom, A+E Networks, AMC Networks, Scripps to launch streaming service without sports called Philo at $20/month in coming weeks — Discovery, Viacom, A+E Networks, AMC Networks, Scripps band together for new service — People who are tired of paying for TV sports channels …
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Variety
Tony Biasotti / Columbia Journalism Review:
How the San Francisco Chronicle became profitable again and gained respect: better economy, lean-years cutbacks, experiments, a commitment to watchdog reporting — The San Francisco Chronicle is for sale inside a newspaper box on October 13, 2013 in San Francisco.
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Talking New Media
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Pew survey: nearly half of US adults have high distrust of information sources, especially news organizations, and low interest in improving digital literacy — News organizations often tend to see their “readers” as one monolithic group whose members have similar needs and respond to the same kinds of stories.
Discussion:
Pew Research Center
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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The Guardian, @lpolgreen, @rosecahalan, @ncruralcenter, @forrest4trees, @farmaid, @alexhortontx, @ruralj, @caseyriankelly 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 …
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