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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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A source at the Saudi consulate in Turkey has denied that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the building — ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A source at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul denied on Sunday a Reuters report which cited Turkish sources saying they believed …
Washington Post:
Turkey's Erdogan says he is following the probe into journalist Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance closely, stops short of confirming reports he has been killed — ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that he was closely following the investigation into the disappearance …
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Lili Bayer / Politico:
Victoria Marinova, a broadcast journalist investigating alleged misuse of EU funds in local infrastructure projects, has been murdered in Bulgaria — A 30-year-old Bulgarian broadcast journalist was raped and murdered Saturday in the city of Ruse, local media reported.
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WeChat posts the top ten rumors every month so it can debunk them, and also offers a mini program to assist in debunking rumors, used by 300,000 people/day — In China, WeChat has become a primary news source for Chinese internet users, just as Facebook in the West.
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Steven Melendez / Fast Company:
MIT/Qatar project aims to use machine learning to detect fake news sites, taking into account their content, URLs, Wikipedia pages and Twitter presence — Thanks to social media, it's easy to come across reporting from unfamiliar news sources around the world.
Abigail Geiger / Pew Research Center:
Pew: college-educated newsroom employees earn about $51K/year, less than the roughly $59K/year that all other college-educated workers earn — Newsroom employees are more than twice as likely as other U.S. workers to be college graduates. But they tend to make less money than college-educated workers …
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
CNN White House reporter Kaitlan Collins apologizes for homophobic slurs she tweeted as a college student, which recently surfaced — CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins apologized Sunday evening after a series of old tweets emerged which revealed the White House correspondent had used a gay slur …
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Avi Asher-Schapiro / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the dangers of Pegasus spyware and how it can take over a journalists phone, track a reporters movements, and identify sources — In May 2016, the Mexican investigative journalist Sebastián Barragán was working on an explosive story.
Nehmat Kaur / The Wire:
Female journalists in India have accused a number of newspaper editors and reporters of sexual harassment, including Times of India Editor K.R. Sreenivas — New Delhi: Almost a year after the MeToo movement started with Harvey Weinstein and then expanded to Hollywood at large, India is finally experiencing its own MeToo movement.
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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.
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
A look at ChuChu TV, the Chennai-based YouTube channel for kids with 19B+ views and 29M subscribers, through a historical lens of how kids' TV evolved in the US — chuchu tv, the company responsible for some of the most widely viewed toddler content on YouTube, has a suitably cute origin story.