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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Tech firms strongly refute Bloomberg's story on Chinese spies installing chips into motherboards; story shows the difficulty of reporting on national security — Today's bombshell Bloomberg story has the internet split: either the story is right, and reporters have uncovered one of the largest …
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BuzzFeed News, Business Insider, Amazon Web Services, Apple, 9to5Mac, @tomgara, @jamesrbuk, @zackwhittaker, @mathewi, The Hill, Softpedia News, SlashGear and KnowTechie, more at Techmeme »
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News:
Minnesota's NBC affiliate fired reporter Jim Bunner after he wore a MAGA hat while covering a Trump rally for the station, citing a policy violation — A reporter for an NBC affiliate in Minnesota was fired Friday, one day after he was spotted wearing a “Make America Great Again” …
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Star Tribune and Mediaite
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Survey: among 38 outlets, WSJ is the most trusted news org with 57.7% of the vote; the six least trusted are partisan sites; 13% of respondents don't trust any — About 13 percent of Americans don't trust any news outlet at all. (They went 2-to-1 for Trump in 2016.)
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Forbes and Simmons Research
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Source: Tribune Publishing and McClatchy inch toward merger, with Chatham Asset Management agreeing to swap $300M in McClatchy loans for equity in new company — Tribune Publishing — up until Oct. 4 known as Tronc — is inching closer to a potential merger with the McClatchy Co.
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@sarafischer and @benmullin
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tronc, the parent company of the Chicago Tribune and other daily newspapers, is changing its name back to Tribune Publishing; stock symbol changes to TPCO
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Nieman Lab, @byalisonbowen, @davelevinthal, @tomgara, @sherman4949, @bruce_arthur, @drmrfrancis, @mmasnick, @mtdukes, @erinmdurkin, @taylorlorenz, @alexweprin, @dylanbyers, @jrcarrollnews, @jmp_nyc, @eosnos, @ctguild, @raylong, @carriemelago, @elyssacherney, @amlwhere, Ad Age, Wall Street Journal, GlobeNewswire News Room, TechCrunch and Daily Herald
Ben Bland / Financial Times:
The Financial Times says Hong Kong will not renew a work visa for Victor Mallet, the paper's Asia news editor, and has not given a reason for the decision — The Hong Kong government has rejected the visa renewal application of the Financial Times' top news editor in Asia …
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South China Morning Post, New York Times, TIME, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, @melissakchan, @melissakchan, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, @pekingmike, @chopkickpunch, @joannachiu, @jerometaylor, @a_sator, @peter_tl, @joannachiu, @lauramannering, @melissakchan, @melissakchan, Press Gazette, TechCrunch, Talking Biz News, PEN Hong Kong, Macau Business and Committee to Protect …
Siobhan O'Connor / Medium:
Medium expects to spend nearly $5M in 2018 paying commissioned and Partner Program writers for their work — We're investing heavily in editorial and the Partner Program — As many of you have noticed, we've been building out a team of editors and curators at Medium over the last several months.
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@stevenbjohnson and @eephusleague
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Kavanaugh hearings are a boon for hyperpartisan publishers on Facebook, though the most popular links on the subject come from trusted news sources like WaPo — “It is certainly the biggest story in politics since the 2016 election,” one publisher told BuzzFeed News
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The Verge and @firstdraftnews, more at Techmeme »
Reed Richardson / FAIR:
NYT's apology for giving Kavanaugh article to Bazelon highlights the absurdity of the idea that people with expertise can't have opinions for objectivity's sake — What happens when a national newspaper cares more about the appearance of bias in its reporting than any actual evidence of it?
Sarah Marsh / The Guardian:
Retailer Topshop abruptly canceled a partnership with Penguin featuring a collection of feminist writing; Topshop apologized and donated £25K to charity Girl Up — Store apologises and makes donation to charity after removal of pop-up promotion — Topshop abruptly cancelled …
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@hwallop, @tkingdot, @magic_kitten, @schooltruth, @olivershah, The Independent, BBC, Daily Mail and Telegraph
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Poll of 2,200 US adults reveals ~60% rarely or never read Trump's tweets, only 15% read them very often, those who do read them are more likely to be Democrats — A new Public Affairs Council/Morning Consult poll reveals that a majority of Americans have become indifferent toward President Trump's tweets …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
LadBible to buy a substantial part of Unilad's £10M debt as part of administration, prompting allegations that rival site is driving Unilad out of business — LadBible's purchase of Unilad's debt prompts accusations rival is driving Unilad out of business
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@simonnricketts, @jimwaterson, @bitsocket and @futurecanon
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Carole Cadwalladr threatened Channel 4 with an injunction to make its reporters and editors hand over sources and transcripts linked to Cambridge Analytica — Carole Cadwalladr hired lawyers to threaten action against her broadcast partner and fell out with the New York Times and BBC in rows over access to sources.
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@buzzfeedben and @carolecadwalla
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