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Kareem Fahim / Washington Post:
Sources: Turkey concludes that Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist who disappeared after entering Istanbul's Saudi consulate, was killed by 15-member Saudi team — ISTANBUL — Turkey has concluded that Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent journalist from Saudi Arabia, was killed in the Saudi Consulate …
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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 …
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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@evanasmith, @mreynoldswriter, Talking Biz News, @roscarborough, @emilybell, @jbenton, @jbenton, Simmons Research and Forbes
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, The Daily Caller and New York Post
Molly McKew / Wired:
Tracing the “information terrorists” who fuel conspiracy theories and battles from Gamergate and QAnon to attacks on Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford — The network architecture built in Gamergate helped propel Trump to the presidency and fuel conspiracies like Pizzagate and QAnon.
Nausicaa Renner / Columbia Journalism Review:
A year after the Weinstein investigation, journalists grapple with how to cover men accused of sexual misconduct as they reenter the public life — It's been a year since The New York Times and The New Yorker broke news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual assaults against women and the attempts he made to cover up his actions.
Jane Cadzow / Sydney Morning Herald:
Inside the upheaval at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which reeled from crisis to crisis in the months prior to the sacking of Michelle Guthrie — In the months before managing director Michelle Guthrie was sacked, the ABC was at war with itself. Then, all hell broke loose.
Eric Johnson / Recode:
Radhika Jones on VF's role in the celebrity-industrial complex, the importance of access, and the shift in editors' concerns for the economics of publishing — Everything is changing, which means there's never been a better time for a “new establishment,” Jones says on Recode Media.
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
The Walt Disney Company says it has invested in mobile entertainment app HQ Trivia's parent company Intermedia Labs via its accelerator program — The Walt Disney Company has invested in mobile entertainment app HQ Trivia's parent company Intermedia Labs, according to a source with knowledge of the deal.
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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@felsull, @medium, @stevenbjohnson and @eephusleague
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
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?
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