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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
At Facebook event touting its work to combat misinformation, company defends maintaining InfoWars page by saying fake news doesn't violate Community Standards — Parents of Sandy Hook victims sue Alex Jones — Facebook officials struggled on Wednesday to explain why it permits InfoWars …
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Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
Journalists should ask Facebook deeper questions about Infowars, like how downranking false content and flagging by fact-checkers affect reach and advertising — Talk about a PR strategy backfiring dramatically. — On Wednesday, Facebook announced it was going to provide an enormous amount …
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CNET and @mantzarlis
Charles Lewis / The Conversation:
The pace of nonprofit media growth has picked up since 2010: Shorenstein Center study shows 6,568 foundations gave nonprofit media $1.8B between 2010 and 2015 — The man best known for founding the digital classified listing service Craigslist recently gave a New York City journalism school US$20 million.
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@janebsinger and @mcnisbet
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
CNN is launching CNN Business this fall, consolidating CNN Money, CNN Tech, and CNN Media, will expand tech coverage from SF bureau, plans new streaming service — CNN is launching a new business website and expanding its technology coverage, part of a broader restructuring …
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Talking Biz News, Thanks:@steverubel
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Fifteen months after launch, traffic and donations at WikiTribune are low, its editor Peter Bale has left, and the majority of stories are written by staff — “'Leadership structure' isn't a very Wiki phrase.” — On June 30, a spam article was posted to WikiTribune, Jimmy Wales' news startup that argued …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
FEMA's report criticizing its own initial response in Puerto Rico shows how wrong Trump was to label early reporting on issues as “fake news” — When Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico last fall, President Trump playfully lobbed rolls of paper towels to those taking shelter.
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@davidbrucesmith, @craigawelch and Daily Kos
Nick Cohen / The New York Review of Books:
The BBC has failed to cover the legal and political scandals behind the Brexit Leave campaign, seeming to prefer to reflect the national mood and not the facts — Late last year, BBC executives had the nerve to erect a bronze statue of George Orwell outside its headquarters in central London.
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bookforum.com, @mattseaton, @sdchamp, @campbellclaret and @ottocrat
Emily Feng / Financial Times:
How Chinese state media spreads its message via 200 nominally independent Chinese language publications around the globe — The latest issue of the UK-Chinese Times, one of the mainstays of Britain's nearly 400,000-strong Chinese-speaking community, splashed on the House of Fraser's plan …
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Fortune
Washington Post:
The Capital Gazette and the Baltimore Sun to receive help from volunteer journalists from across the country at least through the end of summer — By Allison Klein July 10 Email the author — Journalism is a competitive field. Getting the story first and right is gold.
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Susan Reimer
Stephanie Sugars / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Non-white reporters covering US protests say they face additional risks of pepper spray, arrests, and strip searches because police often see them as protesters — “I was just another in a sea of black faces on the other side of a police line," said Christian Gooden, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer …
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@teakphillips, @stephanie_alena and @stephanie_alena
John Eggerton / Multichannel News:
Charlie Gasparino of Fox Business claims DOJ clearance of Sinclair-Tribune deal is coming as early as Friday, but imminent clearance rumor has circulated before — Reports Sinclair looking for thumbs up as early as this week — There is buzz on Capitol Hill and elsewhere that the Department …
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Democratic Underground, FierceCable, @mmfa, Media Matters for America and @cgasparino
John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix, with 112 Emmy nominations this year, breaks HBO's 17-year streak of getting the most nominations each year — • “Game of Thrones” led all shows with 22 Emmy nominations, followed by “Westworld” and “Saturday Night Live,” which each had 21. — • HBO had been the most nominated network for 17 straight years.
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Christine Wang / CNBC:
Court filing: Justice Department will appeal Time Warner-AT&T merger approval — The Justice Department will appeal the AT&T-Time Warner merger approval, according to a court document filed Thursday. — Shares of AT&T slipped 1 percent in after-hours trading Thursday.
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