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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The New Yorker's David Remnick says he won't interview Steve Bannon at The New Yorker Festival: “I've changed my mind. There is a better way to do this” — Updated to note that Remnick, after hearing the backlash, has reconsidered his decision and proposes to interview Bannon in a non-festival setting.
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Erin Nyren / Variety:
Before The New Yorker reversed course, Judd Apatow, Jim Carrey, and others said they wouldn't attend The New Yorker Festival if Steve Bannon was included — UPDATED: The New Yorker Festival announced its lineup Monday and hours later dropped its headlining guest, former White House chief …
Wall Street Journal:
Source: Jack Dorsey weighed in on Twitter content decisions, overruling staff to keep Alex Jones and reinstate Richard Spencer's account; Twitter refutes story — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has personally weighed in on high-profile decisions, frustrating some employees
Reuters:
Myanmar judge finds Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo guilty of breaching the colonial-era law on state secrets, sentences them to seven years in prison — YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and sentenced …
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Reuters:
Reuters EIC Stephen J. Adler says the company is weighing whether to “seek relief in an international forum” over reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo's sentences — Reuters President and Editor-in-Chief, Stephen J. Adler, issued the following statement today after a Myanmar court delivered …
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@kenroth, Financial Times, @bradmadams and @rulajebreal
Axios:
Memo: Andy Lack defends NBC News' decision not to publish Ronan Farrow's reporting on Harvey Weinstein, says Farrow's NBC draft lacked on-the-record sources — In an internal memo sent Monday, NBC News chairman Andy Lack defended the organization's decision not to publish Ronan Farrow's reporting on Harvey Weinstein.
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Poppy McPherson / Reuters:
A new book by Myanmar's army, meant to relate its narrative of the Rohingya crisis, misrepresents at least three archival images — (Reuters) - The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool.
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The Independent and Yeni Safak
Tiffany Stevens / Columbia Journalism Review:
Peer-support programs for journalists are rare and often unofficial despite the fact that exposure to traumatic events is an occupational hazard — Image via Dan Alcalde/Flickr. — In 2016, York Daily Record photographer Jason Plotkin saw a man throwing furniture out of the third-floor window of a house that had recently burned.
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@ehernandez and @tiffanymstevens
Kate Lyons / The Guardian:
BBC's Rob Burley defends the selection of an all female panel for the first episode of lunchtime political discussion program Politics Live — Rob Burley rebuts criticism of Politics Live for being ‘gimmicky’ and too PC — The editor of a new BBC lunchtime political discussion programme …
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Daily Mail, BBC, Mirror.co.uk, Independent.ie, The Sun and The Guardian
The Detail:
Northern Ireland's police force raided and searched the newsroom of investigative news site The Detail, in connection with the arrest of its two reporters — EDITORIAL: Today it is business as usual at The Detail, Below The Radar and Fine Point Films. As always, we will continue to leave …
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Benjamin Plackett / Engadget:
Ten Reddit moderators talk about the abuse they receive, including death and rape threats, burnout under pressure, and how Reddit fails to tackle the issues — This article was produced in partnership with Point, a YouTube channel for investigative journalism.
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@skrishna, more at Techmeme »
Wil S. Hylton / Highline:
Q&A with Glenn Greenwald on Russia's involvement in the 2016 US election, social media's role, and what Facebook should do now — “What are these grave differences that the rest of the world is suffering under Donald Trump which they wouldn't have been suffering under Hillary Clinton?"
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@areidross
Alan Rusbridger / The Guardian:
Former EIC of the Guardian on the role of profits, the evolution of the relationships among newspapers, and journalism's duty to serve the public interest — By early 2017 the world had woken up to a problem that, with a mixture of impotence, incomprehension and dread, journalists had seen coming for some time.
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