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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Capital Gazette journalists are working from the Baltimore Sun offices with counselors and support staff on hand as they work on Saturday's paper — 5 killed in Maryland newspaper shooting — The surviving staff members of the Capital Gazette are gathering on Friday to figure out what to do now.
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Indira Lakshmanan / Poynter:
In an era of deep distrust and hatred towards the press, journalists need to take every opportunity to explain their mission and why it matters, to the public — The murder of five employees of an Annapolis, Maryland newspaper by a reader nursing a years-long grudge over a story …
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Washington Post, @mattdpearce, @defensebaron, Mediaite and New York Times
Baltimore Sun:
Journalist deaths are low in the US, but some worry that they could be targeted as public figures, while recognizing that fear of a shooting is all too common
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@kirbywtweets, The Guardian, Poynter, CNNMoney, The New York Observer, @loisbeckett, The Wrap, Fox News and Editor & Publisher
J. Freedom du Lac / Washington Post:
Capital Gazette publishes paper the day after the shooting with only 56 words on the editorial page, starting with “Today, we are speechless”
6abc.com:
Police identify the five people killed in Annapolis shooting: Gerald Fischman, Robert Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith, and Wendi Winters
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Baltimore Sun, Hartford Courant, @capgaznews, @adam_yosim, @chicagotribune, Jill Fredel, New York Times, Mediaite, The A.V. Club and New York Times
Baltimore Sun:
Sources: police are holding Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, as the suspect in Annapolis shooting; Ramos lost a defamation suit against the Capital Gazette over 2011 story
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Margalit Fox / New York Times:
New York Times obituary writer Margalit Fox, who is leaving the news organization after writing 1,400 obituaries over 14 years, explains the value of the job — A New York Times obituary writer for 14 years, Margalit Fox takes a crack at her own epitaph. — Times Insider delivers behind …
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@jacquesgallant, @curiousoctopus, @visualecon and @anne_theriault
Mike Ananny / Nieman Lab:
Press freedom emerges from social, technological, institutional, and normative forces that vie for power, imagine publics, and fight for visions of democracy — “If we see press freedom not as heroic isolations — journalists breaking free to tell truths to the publics they imagine …
David Cohen / Adweek:
Facebook, Twitter, Google, local news orgs, others collaborate on Comprova initiative to ensure Brazilian voters see authentic news during presidential election — Facebook, Twitter, Google and NewsWhip are participating in Comprova — Voters in Brazil are set to go to the polls and choose …
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The Keyword and Facebook Media
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
How a Mexican digital marketing firm is using Facebook pages, Twitter bots, and Instagram likes to spread fake news in the lead-up to the country's elections — Armed with millions of bots and thousands of fake Facebook pages, Carlos Merlo's digital marketing firm is trying to hijack Mexico's politics with fake news.
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@walofenton, @benimmo, DFRLab, @buzzfeednews, @craigsilverman, @nxthompson, @triketora, @typemrt and DFRLab, more at Techmeme »
Scott Porch / Fast Company:
A look at the efforts of podcast platforms like Stitcher and Castbox to supplement their free ad supported offerings with premium content — Your favorite free podcast probably won't charge you anytime soon. But CastBox's premium-content platform is among the new ways podcasters are getting paid.
Thanks:@mariedomingo
Colin Lecher / The Verge:
The California Consumer Privacy Act, one of the toughest data privacy bills in the US, has been signed into law and will go into effect in 2020 — California lawmakers passed one of the toughest data privacy laws in the United States today, as they faced pressure from an even stronger ballot measure in the state.
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New York Times, Information Trust …, @ansip_eu, @uptownmia, @bob_kain, Adweek, Ad Age and Washington Post
Knight Foundation:
In Gallup/Knight experiment, use of a rating tool to tag reliability of news orgs decreased reading and sharing of misinformation across the political spectrum — Gallup and Knight Foundation's 2017 Survey on Trust, Media andDemocracy found that Americans believe the media landscape is becoming harder to navigate.
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Nieman Lab, @niemanlab and @antoniogm
Mark Lee Hunter / Global Investigative …:
For journalists, working with NGOs should be seen as a strategic alliance entered into with knowledge of their ends and the complementary resources they offer — The European Investigative Journalism Conference at Mechelen, Belgium, broke ground by putting a still-novel subject on the agenda …
Ian Bickis / The Canadian Press:
Torstar cutting 11 full-time, 10 part-time staff at StarMetro in Toronto — Torstar Corp. will lay off 21 staff at its StarMetro office in Toronto as part of a shift of production operations to nearby Hamilton. — The cuts include nine full-time editors, two full-time reporter-photographers …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
India is now a high priority for Netflix as broadband access booms there but the price of the service and the atypical stories it wants to feature are obstacles — Reed Hastings looks to India, which boasts more than 150 million people with broadband access.
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