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Cindy Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Judge orders LA Times to remove details from a story about a sealed plea agreement made public by mistake on PACER; LAT does so but plans to contest order — A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Los Angeles Times to remove information from an article that described a plea agreement between prosecutors …
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Profile of UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, who gave Facebook a £500K fine over Cambridge Analytica and is investigating data misuse during Brexit — With the publication of an interim report on her investigation into the Brexit referendum, the information commissioner …
Christine Emba / Washington Post:
The removal of Daniella Greenbaum's article from Business Insider doesn't mean mobs are threatening free speech; cultural sensitivity is just common courtesy — Which beleaguered free-speech champion is being silenced today? — As it happens, it's writer Daniella Greenbaum, a former columnist for the website Business Insider.
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@eriksherman, @jonathanchait, @hiattf and Slate
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Daniella Greenbaum / Washington Post:
As the policing of speech, largely by mobs on social media, becomes normalized, the would-be targets of censorship must reject the notion of “acceptable” views — Daniella Greenbaum is a writer living in New York. — As an opinion columnist for Business Insider until my resignation Thursday …
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@karaswisher, @hollybell8, @rjcc, @jeffjarvis, @charlesarthur, @karaswisher, @daviduberti and @brithume
Pew Research Center:
Retransmission revenues for US local TV stations grew to $9B in 2017 from $8B in 2016, but the audience for local TV news dropped 15% YoY — MORE FACT SHEETS: STATE OF THE NEWS MEDIA — While television remains the most common place for Americans to get their news, with local TV outpacing cable …
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Nieman Lab and Pew Research Center
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Pew Research Center:
Overview of public databases and studies details continued growth of online radio and podcasting, shows that audience and economics of AM/FM radio remain steady — MORE FACT SHEETS: STATE OF THE NEWS MEDIA — The audio news sector in the United States is split by modes of delivery …
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9to5Mac, @pewjournalism, @pewjournalism and @pewjournalism
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
With “Who Is America?”, Sacha Baron Cohen pits bad faith against bad faith political actors of the Trump era that traditional outlets have struggled to cover — Sacha Baron Cohen — a consummate troll himself — is a perfect foil to the current political climate of grift and trolling.
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The A.V. Club, The Daily Beast, @oneunderscore__, @tomgara, @tomgara, @myecoll, The Guardian, @annehelen, Slate, @amandakhurley, @tomgara, @tomgara, @davidklion, @hcjustinn, Mediaite and The Outline
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
White House cancels CNN interview with National Security Advisor John Bolton after interaction between Trump and CNN's Jim Acosta at UK press conference — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday that the White House decided to cancel an interview between CNN …
Judd Slivka / Nieman Lab:
A proposed law would make it a civil offense to fly drones over private property below 200 feet without permission, even if newsworthy events are occurring — Imagine if a news photographer at a football game had to get permission from every single person in the stadium before taking a single shot …
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@nppalawyer, @dougfisher, @newyorkcommuter, @niemanlab and @spj_tweets
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired:
ThinkProgress founder and EIC Judd Legum explains why he is leaving his current job to launch a paid political newsletter Popular Information — ONE OF THE few things people agree on in 2018 is that the news industry is broken. The old business models don't work.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @tomwatson, @juddlegum and @bypatrickgeorge
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
USA Today Network's feel-good video series HumanKind, AnimalKind, MilitaryKind on Facebook Watch have 9M+ followers and generated 140M views in May and June — USA Today Network has found that people still love to watch feel-good videos on Facebook — and they're helping the publisher make some money on the platform.
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
China Internet Report: Tencent News and Toutiao have the most monthly active users among news apps, with an average user spending 73 minutes per day on Toutiao — Internet penetration in China is at around just under 56 percent, according to a report released this year by the Chinese internet …
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@niemanlab, @niemanlab, 500 Startups and South China Morning Post
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