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Christopher Robbins / Gothamist:
Leaked audio: Village Voice owner tells staff publication will cease posting stories, 15-20 staff to remain to “wind things down” and work on an online archive — Three years after buying The Village Voice, and a year after the paper shut down its print edition …
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The Daily Beast:
Sources describe how Ronan Farrow's work on Harvey Weinstein died at NBC News: pressure via Weinstein lawyers and NBC general counsel, lack of executive support — Ronan Farrow had already left NBC News. But a top lawyer at the network threatened to smear him if he continued to pursue the Hollywood mogul …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
The political journalism of the nineties and aughts, in which politics was covered like a tactical game using sports metaphors, is inadequate in today's climate — Traditional political journalists were the last people to notice in 2016 that the world had changed.
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n+1:
Social media, metrics, bad faith readers, columnists, instant and bad takes, blogosphere nostalgia, and online abuse have created an op-ed internet culture — Each this is not to say or in other words a dull sword wielded against willful misunderstanding — HAVE EDITORS EVER KNOWN SO MUCH about their readers?
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Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Texas judge declines to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against Alex Jones brought by the family of Sandy Hook victim Noah Pozner — A judge ruled against the Infowars host, who had argued his repeated attacks on the grieving parents were protected by the First Amendment.
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Two months after launch, Instagram's IGTV remains an experiment for some publishers, without much dedicated investment until a revenue model becomes clearer — Discovery should have as good an idea as any media company as to how Instagram's IGTV is panning out for publishers.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Billy Penn, Denverite, and The Incline have a combined 1,500 paying customers, 60% of whom are recurring contributors after a shift to a reader supported model — The three sites together are “just south of 1,500 paying customers,” 60 percent of whom are signed up as recurring contributors …
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Sources: Trump's Rose Garden videos are meant to make him feel good, remind him of his earlier digital media virality, and allow him to control the aesthetics — You may be wondering why, throughout the second half of August, the president of the United States has been standing in the Rose Garden and yelling.
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Emily Dugan / BuzzFeed:
In 2017, the UK's Home Office created a rapid response strategy to solve immigration cases that made headlines; critics say it creates a double standard — Exclusive: Lawyers say a rapid-response process introduced by then home secretary Amber Rudd in 2017 creates a double standard.
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PTI:
WhatsApp rolls out radio campaigns across 46 Hindi stations in India asking users to check the veracity of the information they receive before forwarding — NEW DELHI: In a bid to crackdown on spread of fake news on its platform, WhatsApp on Wednesday said it is rolling …
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Zee News and @sameerpatel, more at Techmeme »
Prak Chan Thul / Reuters:
Cambodian court sentences Australian filmmaker to six years for espionage between 2010-2017 after arresting him for flying a drone over a political rally — PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian court jailed an Australian filmmaker for six years on Friday after finding him guilty of espionage …
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National Union of Journalists:
Two journalists in Northern Ireland are arrested, computers confiscated in connection with alleged theft of police documents related to No Stone Unturned film — The National Union of Journalists has expressed “grave concern” at the arrests this morning of two journalists in Northern Ireland.
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@lyramckee, @lyramckee and BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
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