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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Q&A with New York Review of Books Editor Ian Buruma who defends running Jian Ghomeshi's piece and why the allegations against Ghomeshi aren't Buruma's “concern” — Well before the world associated the phrase #MeToo with sexual assault, Jian Ghomeshi was a popular Canadian radio host and musician.
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Ruth Spencer / The Cut:
With articles like Ghomeshi's in NYRB or Hockenberry's in Harper's, men disgraced by #metoo throw themselves pity parties in the country's most prestigious pubs — Before anyone knew anything else about him, it was charm that made Jian Ghomeshi a big deal.
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@katja_thieme, @padams29, @katieboland, @silviakillings, @thomas_drake1, @eveforster, @mikaoninternets and The Guardian
Frida Garza / Jezebel:
The New York Review of Books publishes a story by former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi on his experience being accused and controversially acquitted of sexual assault — On Friday, the New York Review of Books published “Reflections on a Hashtag,” the cover story for its October print issue …
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Will Oremus / Slate:
Study: Facebook engagement for sites identified as publishing fake news dropped by 50%+ between 2016 election and July 2018, while shares on Twitter kept rising — Facebook's efforts to reduce misinformation in its news feed since the 2016 election have opened the company to all manner of criticism …
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@willoremus, @mosseri and @mantzarlis, more at Techmeme »
Brian Barrett / Wired:
A look at The Weather Channel's “green screen immersive studio”, which allows it to bring extreme weather to life through immersive demonstrations — AT A CERTAIN point, you think you have a good grasp of what to expect from weather graphics. A color-coded map, a five-day forecast with a sassy cloud.
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TVNewser, @mtdukes, Fortune, Motherboard, Fast Company, Mashable, The Wrap and The Verge
Amanda Darrach / Columbia Journalism Review:
Under Trump, getting an O-1B visa, reserved for creative work, like journalists, has become a more difficult, unpredictable and at times, hostile process — Image via Pixabay. — A young science journalist went recently to a US Consulate in Germany to finalize her visa to work in America.
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@spj_tweets, @usprojectcjr and @ericfish85
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Jemele Hill, who drew criticism when she called Trump a white supremacist on Twitter in 2017, confirms she is leaving ESPN — Jemele Hill, the outspoken sports journalist and commentator who took sparked a massive controversy for the Walt Disney-owned cable network when she called President Donald Trump a …
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@jemelehill, @stanverrett, @richarddeitsch, Sports Illustrated, The Hill, CBS News, NBC News, Associated Press, The Wrap, CNNMoney, AOL and WBRZ
Amanda Whiting / Washingtonian:
A look at Cenk Uygur's path from conservative to creator of the Young Turks, where his pugnacious style is a protest against the “civility” of cable news shows — Establishment liberals mourn bipartisanship. The Young Turks host thinks Washington is still too chummy.
Mitch Stoltz / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF and Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School help eliminate “seven dirty words” restriction policy from .US domain name registrations, reinstating fucknazis.us — Jeremy Rubin just wanted to speak out about the rise of white supremacist groups in the U.S. and raise some money to fight against those groups.
Bloomberg:
YouTube's ninth most-watched channel, Little Baby Bum, founded in 2011 by a UK couple, has been bought by Moonbug agency, with one price estimate of £6M-£8.5M — One of YouTube's most popular brands has been bought by a trio of entertainment-industry veterans with ties to Disney …
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@business, @pkafka, Mashable and Tubefilter
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Transcript of conversation between Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Jay Rosen: on news, impartiality, abuse, misinformation, bad actors, and hiring an ombudsman — Dorsey says “we have definitely been gamed” by bad-faith actors and doesn't expect that Twitter will ever build a “perfect antidote.”
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Wonkette, The Verge, @ggreenwald, @caseynewton, @jack, @jayrosen_nyu, Deadline and Slate
Sonia Elks / Reuters:
IWMF and TrollBusters survey of ~600 female journalists: two-thirds face online harassment or threats, nine in ten see a rise in physical and online abuse — LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female journalists are facing a “relentless” barrage of attacks and harassment …
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