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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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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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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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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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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 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


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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UK to let producers like Netflix to 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 …
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An interview with the executive producer of Slate Live on choosing venues and cities, setting ticket prices, what separates live shows from recordings, and more — While it seems like every publisher, from The New York Times to Vox, is making significant investments in podcasting …


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.


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.