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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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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.
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 …
Annalisa Quinn / New York Times:
Ofcom estimates that only 50 pirate radio stations remain in London, down from ~100 a decade ago and hundreds in the 1990s — LONDON — In 1993, the illegal radio broadcasters at Kool FM came up with a plan to keep the regulators from raiding their studios.
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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.
Laura Wagner / Deadspin:
Q&A with Der Spiegel's Antje Windmann on convincing soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo's rape accuser to speak and why non-sports media was slow to pick up the story — In April 2017, German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported that Cristiano Ronaldo in 2010 reached a $375,000 settlement …
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Ryan Lenora Brown / Christian Science Monitor:
In South Sudan, publishing a newspaper like the Juba Monitor means negotiating to release journalists and dealing with censorship, fuel shortages, and inflation — WHY WE WROTE THIS — Anna Nimiriano leads a morning news meeting at the Juba Monitor. She is the first female editor …
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@ryanlenorabrown, @iwmf and @ninastrochlic
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.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @kevcorduroy and @joshbutler
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.
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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.