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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will reveal “in all its nakedness” how journalist Jamal Khashoggi died at the Saudi consulate — Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will reveal “in all its nakedness” how journalist Jamal Khashoggi died at the Saudi consulate.
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Jared Kushner says that the Trump administration is trying to establish facts around Khashoggi's death, while saying US must work with allies like Saudi Arabia — (CNN)Jared Kushner said Monday he'd advised Mohammed bin Salman to be fully transparent in his investigation of a Saudi journalist's death.
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The Guardian:
UK, France, Germany issue joint statement, say Saudis need to provide credible facts about Khashoggi's death; Turkey will release investigation details on Tue.
UK, France, Germany issue joint statement, say Saudis need to provide credible facts about Khashoggi's death; Turkey will release investigation details on Tue.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix says it's going to raise $2B through debt securities, the sixth time in less than four years it's raising $1B+ through bonds — Netflix is again going to debt markets to fund its enormous appetite for content, announcing plans Monday to raise $2 billion in financing through debt securities.
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The Membership Puzzle Project:
The Membership Puzzle Project launches a $700K fund for projects around the world experimenting with membership-based business models for news — Last year when the Membership Puzzle Project started studying news sites that were working with their supporters for revenue and to benefit their journalism, we heard two themes.
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Nieman Lab, @emgollie, @jayrosen_nyu and @membershippzzle
New York Times:
Detecting fake news using AI will require a number of major advances far beyond today's AI, which just flags word patterns and operates at a keyword level — At least not for decades to come. Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg. — Dr. Marcus is a professor of psychology and neural science.
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@carnage4life, @bendee983, Fortune, @noelsharkey and @went1955, more at Techmeme »
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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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Study: of 1,220 Twitter users, Republicans who followed a liberal Twitter bot became substantially more conservative; conservative bots didn't change Democrats — Echo chambers aren't what's polarizing America. — There's a simple story for how the media is driving political polarization.
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@ezraklein, @ezraklein, @jayvanbavel, @fawfulfan, @adamjohnsonnyc, @chris_bail, @davidklion and @cruickshank
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Brazilian media outlets owned by a far-right billionaire are being used to intimidate journalists critical of the leading presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro — The highly likely ascension to power of far-right extremist Jair Bolsonaro is already unleashing a climate in which journalists …
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@drorfeiler, @raju and @trevortimm
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
UK study: poorer people consume less news than the wealthy and are less likely to go directly to news sites; no brand among 32 had significantly more poor users — News is more unevenly distributed in the UK than income is, according to new research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
The Associated Press deleted a tweet Sunday evening which called a large caravan of migrants from Central America a ragged “army” — “Some of the members of this 'army' are quite literally malnourished babies," says BuzzFeed's David Mack — The Associated Press deleted …
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Washington Post, Mediaite, @davidgura, @ericontrarian, @davidgura, @politicalelle, @ksieff and @profmjcleveland
Andrew McCormick / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at why all but two of San Francisco Magazine's editorial staffers quit last week, as parent company Modern Luxury cuts back newsroom resources — The November issue of San Francisco magazine will feature a 6,000-word true crime piece about a kidnapping in Mountain View, California …
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@jonsteinberg31 and @gwendolynawu
Jordan Green / HuffPost:
How Big League Politics, owned by political operative Reilly O'Neal, fueled tensions over an NC Confederate statue and fed a Charlottesville conspiracy theory — Patrick Howley's Big League Politics is for people who find Breitbart too reasonable. And it's just getting started.
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@jordangreentcb, @elimeye and @eric_ginsburg