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Christine Wang / CNBC:
Saudi Arabia confirms journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed, says his death followed a fight at consulate and 18 people have been detained — Missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead, Saudi Arabia's general prosecutor said early Saturday morning local time.
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New York Times:
Sources: Saudis groomed a Twitter employee to spy on accounts of dissidents; he was investigated and fired in Dec. 2015 after Western intelligence warnings — Each morning, Jamal Khashoggi would check his phone to discover what fresh hell had been unleashed while he was sleeping.
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New York Times:
Social platforms are relying on journalists as unpaid content moderators to address misinformation on their sites, even with all the tools at their disposal — Social platforms have a responsibility to address misinformation as a systemic problem, instead of reacting to case after case.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Some newspapers shift to variable rates for print subscribers depending on renewal history, affluence, and other variables, leading to price jumps — Retiree Rob Black lives in an upscale but not wildly affluent suburb of Kansas City and has subscribed to The Kansas City Star since he moved to town in 1970.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Editor Chris Quinn on Cleveland.com's approach to covering crime: fewer mugshots, not always naming perpetrators, and formulating a right-to-be-forgotten policy — When you hear the phrase “right to be forgotten,” you may think of the European Union, where right-to-be-forgotten regulations …
Samanth Subramanian / The Guardian:
Profile of Miqdaad Versi, who monitors British media and lodges formal complaints with UK's regulator IPSO about the errors, distortions, and Islamophobia — For three years, Miqdaad Versi has waged a quixotic - and always scrupulously courteous - campaign against the endless errors and distortions in news about British Muslims.
New York Times:
A look at apps like Cruz Crew, N.R.A. and Great America that offer conservatives partisan news feeds and safe spaces free from rules of platforms like Facebook — Imagine a society in which everyone more or less agrees with you. — You wake up in the morning to online greetings from people …
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Caroline Scott / Journalism.co.uk:
The Financial Times details a new recommendation and tracking tool that it hopes it will increase revenue by up to £1.5M per year — The publisher hopes Knowledge Builder could bring up to £1.5 million a year in revenue — “Think for a moment - what if you could somehow introduce …
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Sarah Sluis / AdExchanger:
Q&A with Bloomberg Media's global chief revenue officer Keith Grossman on the pub's digital media strategy, Twitter, TicToc, advertising, subscriptions, more — Name a trend in digital media, and Bloomberg's tried it in the past year: digital subscriptions, live events …
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
At a rally in Montana, Trump praised Greg Gianforte for assaulting Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs during Gianforte's campaign for Congress in 2017 — President's comments at Montana rally in praise of violence against US journalist come amid international outcry over Khashoggi — Play Video
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BuzzFeed News:
Tim Cook calls for a retraction of Bloomberg's Chinese spy chip story: “There is no truth in their story about Apple. They need to do the right thing” — “I feel they should retract their story. There is no truth in their story about Apple. They need to do that right thing."
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The Guardian:
Source: editorial oversight for websites branded the Independent but run by Saudi Research and Marketing Group would be limited to one “consultant editor” — Journalists voice concern over editorial freedom of UK news firm's Middle Eastern editions Concerns have been raised …
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