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8:00 AM ET, May 14, 2018

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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Credibility at NBC News is in trouble following lack of support for Ronan Farrow, a correction on a Michael Cohen story, skepticism about Lauer probe, and more  —  As months go, this has been a terrible one for NBC News.  Among the low points:  —  The ace reporter whose work …
Discussion: @z_everson, @sulliview and @bgrueskin
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Source: Ronan Farrow's forthcoming book “Catch and Kill” will discuss his clash with NBC execs over Weinstein story and how it ended up at The New Yorker  —  How ‘catch and kill’ is used to bury news stories  —  Ronan Farrow was working for NBC News when he began investigating Harvey Weinstein.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Alden's management of the Denver Post foreshadows the death of newspapers as owners extract value by sucking the marrow rather than by investing or selling  —  It's with a spasm of profits.  —  For a preview of the newspaper industry's coming death, turn your gaze to Colorado …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Journalists face tough choices on publishing stolen materials since spy agencies can manipulate them and produce genuine archives seeded with slick forgeries  —  WASHINGTON — For decades, leakers of confidential information to the press were a genus that included many species …
Cory Nealon / University of Buffalo:
Study: less than 10% of users who retweeted false info during disasters deleted their RT later, less than 20% of them clarified false RT with a new tweet  —  Study examines Boston Marathon bombing, Hurricane Sandy; also finds most users fail to correct misinformation
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
BuzzFeed News' new weekly podcast features a chatbot Jojo, which responds to listeners' texted keywords with links to articles from featured segments  —  “One of our goals has been to talk about the news for our audience in a way that invites them into the news cycle.
Brett Bull / Variety:
A look at the $1.6B video streaming market in Japan, where Netflix and Amazon are using the power of original shows to take on Hulu and homegrown dTV  —  Since launching in Japan in 2015, Netflix has focused on providing high-quality and original content from both international and local sources.
Amy X. Wang / Rolling Stone:
Apple Music says it removed R. Kelly's music from featured playlists weeks ago while Pandora currently does not promote the singer's music  —  Three streaming services have now removed the R&B singer's music from curated playlists  —  Spotify caused a mighty stir yesterday when it announced that …
 
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Marcela Kunova / Journalism.co.uk:
Al Jazeera develops InterviewJS, an open source tool that turns Q&As into interactive messaging where the reader asks the interviewee pre-selected questions
Freia Nahser / Global Editors Network:
Q&A with The Guardian's Anna Bateson, chief customer officer, on asking readers for funding, the importance of Google and Facebook, and preparing for the GDPR
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Zetland, a Danish subscription news outlet with 10K members, has been testing news via audio and found 60% of members prefer listening over reading
Discussion: @martinsfp
Ann-Christine Diaz / Creativity Online:
HBO joins The Atlantic's Question Your Answers series, a collection of short films designed to foster civil discourse and help expand the magazine's reach
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The Guardian:
Eulogy for Cambodia's independent press, after an investor bought The Phnom Penh Post and demanded an article be removed, prompting a mass staff resignation
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Luminary Media raises $40M; sources say it plans to launch subscription service for premium podcasts, has begun to strike licensing deals with podcast creators   SL 
Stella Bugbee / The Cut:
Anna Wintour's effort to rehabilitate the reputation of Harvey Weinstein's estranged wife, designer Georgina Chapman, is a way to seek forgiveness for herself
 

 
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway

Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
The TikTok divestment bill will not offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but it will further entrench the dominance of US-based social networks

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth

 
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