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EPA bars the AP, CNN, and another outlet from national summit on harmful water contaminants; security guards at the event shoved female reporter out of building — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on a hearing with EPA chief Scott Pruitt on a widespread contaminant in drinking water (all times local):
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
At Deadline Club dinner, Lesley Stahl said Trump told her he bashes the press “so that when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you” — - President Donald Trump said he bashes the press to “demean” and “discredit” reporters so that no one will believe negative stories …
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YouTube, Washington Post, Mother Jones, The Intercept, @clarajeffery and @hadas_gold
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A new report from Data & Society says young reporters writing about the Internet fueled coverage of the alt-right, emboldening the movement — “These were the kinds of behaviors, and the kinds of people, they had been participating with, reporting on, and in many cases actively taunting, for years.
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Data & Society, @craignewmark, @zephoria, @news_collab, @datasociety and @niemanlab
A.J. Katz / Adweek:
Nielsen expands its partnership with YouTube TV to include YouTube viewership in local TV audience measurements, likely a boon for local media ad buys — Which is good news for media buyers and sellers — Nielsen announced today that YouTube TV viewership at designated market levels …
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Broadcasting & Cable and MediaPost
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
New miniseries shows NYT is thriving despite its bleak outlook in the 2011 Page One documentary, but the struggles it faced still plague other outlets — Imagine the first year of the Trump administration without Maggie Haberman embedded in the West Wing. Without Michael Schmidt breaking open the James Comey saga.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at how distracted consumers with constantly changing media diets are disrupting traditional TV and the advertising industry — Americans are increasingly picky, impatient, distracted and demanding — and their media diets are changing so fast that most traditional industries can no longer keep up.
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@sarafischer, @davidnather, @charliebeckett and @jimvandehei
Institute for Nonprofit News:
Profile of VTDigger, a non-profit newsroom in Vermont, which has ~300,000 monthly users, 19 full-time employees, and an annual budget of over $1.5M — A study in leadership — To editors and executive directors of nonprofit news organizations, Anne Galloway's story will sound familiar …
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@xanderlanden, @inn, @vtdigger, @heytimgriggs, @radiofinn, @melaniesill, @inn and Nieman Lab
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
NewsDog, a news aggregator in India which offers news in English and various regional Indian languages, has raised $50M Series C led by Tencent — The growth of China's Bytedance, an ambitious $30 billion tech firm, and its highly addictive Toutiao news aggregator app has set off a search …
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The Economic Times and VCCircle, more at Techmeme »
Rana Ayyub / New York Times:
Indian journalist Rana Ayyub recounts how she was harassed online, subjected to rape threats and worse, allegedly by followers of the country's prime minister — MUMBAI, India — I work as an investigative and political journalist. Two years back, I published a book …
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@rupasubramanya and @robinhanson
Dani Deahl / The Verge:
Twitter announces it is killing off its apps for Xbox, Roku, and Android TV on May 24 — Probably for the best — Today Twitter announced it is killing off several of its apps, including Twitter for Android TV, Twitter for Roku, and Twitter for Xbox. — Twitter for Xbox allowed …
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TechCrunch, Multichannel News and Variety, more at Techmeme »
Tony Rehagen / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Tommy Tomlinson, who lost most of his voice to cancer but has gone on to be a Pulitzer finalist and will launch an interview podcast this month — Tommy Tomlinson. Photo courtesy of the subject. — IN THE SPRING OF 1993, Tommy Tomlinson was lying in a bed at Carolinas Medical Center …
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Source: BuzzFeed Studios has signed a deal with agency WME as it looks to ramp up its film and television output — The digital publisher has sold docuseries ‘Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers’ to Oxygen and shortform series ‘Follow This’ to Netflix.
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