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4:15 AM ET, October 8, 2018

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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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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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: @nytimesmusic
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 …
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.
Discussion: Reason
 
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