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Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dies of pancreatic cancer at 57 — Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city's vast culinary landscape and made its food understandable and approachable to legions of fans, has died.
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Megan Garber / The Atlantic:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders' briefings include obfuscation and disputes of basic facts as the press secretary fights to control facts, truths, and common knowledge — On wednesday, two representatives of the United States government held press briefings, both of them touching …
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Bloomberg:
Inside state-sponsored trolling efforts that combine virtual hate mobs, surveillance, and misinformation to silence critical voices and spread disinformation — Sitting cross-legged on a charpoy, an Indian day bed, Mahaveer Prasad Khileri taps on his laptop, his face lit by the screen …
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
In an interview, Roku's CEO discusses how it is growing its ad business and software licensing to OEMs, which generated more revenues than device sales as of Q1 — Roku wants to build out a ‘big, next-generation’ targeted ad platform — Roku sells more dedicated streaming devices than perhaps any other company in the world.
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Freia Nahser / Global Editors Network:
Inside Fox Sports, The Times, and Le Figaro's efforts to use AI, Alexa voice actions, and automation for their World Cup reporting — Fox Sports, The Times, and Le Figaro have tapped into AI, voice AI, and automation for their World Cup reporting. — The World Cup 2018 is all over.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Study of 3,000 US adults: users are more likely to trust news when they do not see identifying source info; Vox, Fox, and Breitbart trusted least when labeled — Not that they can remember the source five minutes later, anyway. — People don't always remember the precise source of their news.
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Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
As LA Times moves to new offices, the owner Patrick Soon-Shiong talks about his plans for the paper, competition with NYT and WaPo, and why he moved into media — Patrick Soon-Shiong despises clickbait and says the future belongs to quality journalism. Will his gamble pay off?
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Heather Bryant / Nieman Lab:
A look at the urgent challenges newsrooms face due to the sophistication of image manipulation as they struggle to adopt the necessary verification technology — “It's going to be a while before we really have an understanding of how we work to combat it beyond the traditional methods that we have used for a few years now."
Sam Thielman / Columbia Journalism Review:
An overview of the outlets both on the left and on the right that published articles by Russian spies and military officers as revealed by court documents — A photo of Donald Trump's notes altered to show his edits in Sharpie. — There's something for most of the US news media to be ashamed …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Buzzfeed's standalone news site buzzfeednews.com only includes programmatic ads at launch although native ads still drive a majority of BuzzFeed's revenue — BuzzFeed has been on a mission to diversify away from direct-sold advertising. And nowhere is that more evident than on its new BuzzFeed News site.
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Kimberly Guilfoyle abruptly leaves Fox News; sources say she may take a job at the non-profit America First Policies and join Trump Jr. on the campaign trail — Kimberly Guilfoyle leaving Fox News to campaign with Donald Trump Jr. — Kimberly Guilfoyle, a Fox News host and one of the network's top stars …
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
The success of the In the Dark podcast's donor-only Facebook group, with $50 minimum donation to join and 250+ members, shows how publishers can monetize groups — The podcast has found opportunity with a donors-only Facebook group. Its second-season subject Curtis Flowers is still in prison …
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