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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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UK, France, Germany issue joint statement, say Saudis need to provide credible facts about Khashoggi's death; Turkey will release investigation details on Tue. — Joint statement from UK, France and Germany says Riyadh needs to urgently clarify what happened to journalist
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Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
Richard Parsons resigns as CBS board member and chairman, citing complications in his fight with myeloma; board appoints Strauss Zelnick as interim chairman — Richard Parsons has resigned from the CBS Corp board of directors, including his role as interim chairman which he undertook …
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New York Times and The Daily Beast
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
To fight “fake news”, news outlets should ban reporters from doing anything on social media beyond sharing stories; snark and blatant opinion reduce trust — While speaking at my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, I was asked by several students how to restore faith and trust in media.
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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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Eric Johnson / Recode:
Q&A with Matt Taibbi on releasing his serialized book The Fairway via email subscription, the media's over-coverage of Trump, and reporting from Russia — Taibbi says the difference between the campaign and today is “we replaced a million hours of Trump with a million hours of ‘Trump is bad.’”
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@perlberg
Ruth Spencer / The Cut:
Interview with Robbie Kaplan, who is representing the creator of the Shitty Media Men list, Moira Donegan, in her defense against writer Stephen Elliott — On Monday, renowned attorney and Time's Up legal-defense fund co-founder Robbie Kaplan announced that she'd be representing Shitty Media …
The Ferret:
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pulled out of the News Xchange 2018 conference in Edinburgh after BBC invited Steve Bannon as a speaker — First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has pulled out of an Edinburgh conference after learning that former Trump strategist, Steve Bannon, has been invited to speak.
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HuffPost UK and The Guardian
Jay Rosen / The Correspondent:
Jay Rosen interviews Nienke Venema of SDM, a Correspondent investor granted veto power to ensure the outlet remains ad-free and committed to its 5% profit cap — In my recent post, What The Correspondent will add to the American press, I explained in detail why I decided to work …
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@jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @ejpfauth and @the_corres
Kevin Rawlinson / The Guardian:
UK to let producers like Netflix bid for £60M fund, taken originally from BBC budget to pay for rural broadband, to create children's TV, more — Government plans to give private firms public money that came from BBC budget — Private media firms such as Netflix and Amazon …
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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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 …
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