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2:40 AM ET, December 27, 2018

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Austin Murphy / The Atlantic:
Austin Murphy, a former senior writer at Sports Illustrated, on switching from a career in journalism to working for Amazon delivering packages  —  There's a certain novelty, after decades at a legacy media company, in playing for the team that's winning big.
Jeff Jarvis / Whither news?:
A look at what German media academics and journalists, including Mother Jones' CEO, are saying about the Der Spiegel scandal and the lessons to be learned  —  “Everyone who writes knows the seduction of the narrative.”  — Bernhard Pörksen in Die Zeit
Max Read / New York Magazine:
Studies suggest that less than 60% of web traffic is human, with fake metrics, news, and bot-driven conversations and transactions, leading to falling trust  —  In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
A look at journalism in 2018, from the revival of the LA Times to the horrific murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi  —  In 2018, those who follow the fortunes of journalism in America probably heard a name — and, separately, a terrible nickname — for the first time.
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
A look at Speakr, a social media influencer management platform that some influencers say has failed to pay them, with trouble starting in late 2017  —  The agency Speakr set influencers up with brands for lucrative campaigns—and then stiffed them.  —  After rising to MySpace fame in the mid-aughts …
Peter Jukes / Byline:
BBC's failure to adequately cover important stories like Brexit in the name of “balance” can turn it into a hostage to politics, rather than an observer of it  —  2018 has been a troubling year for those who support public service broadcasting and the national broadcaster's remit to INFORM not just entertain.
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
CBS says its sports news streaming channel Sports HQ now delivers 10 hours of live programming daily on average with half of viewers watching on mobile devices  —  Armed with a new production studio in Connecticut and broadcast rights to this year's Super Bowl, CBS Sports is making a push behind …
Craig Mod / Wired:
Although the functionality of digital books has largely remained the same for 10 years, technology has improved everything that goes into publishing a book  —  THE FUTURE BOOK was meant to be interactive, moving, alive.  Its pages were supposed to be lush with whirling doodads, responsive, hands-on.
Christian Shepherd / Reuters:
UK publisher Taylor and Francis has dropped more than 80 journals from its offerings to libraries in China at the Chinese government's request  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - A British academic publisher has dropped more than 80 journals from its offerings in China at the government's request …
Wall Street Journal:
While Western companies publicly condemned Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi killing, many have retained their relationships with the Kingdom, including Bloomberg  —  Many businesses have linked their future to Saudi money and the kingdom's sweeping economic overhauls
 
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Jean Marbella / Baltimore Sun:
Six months later, the Capital Gazette mass shooting still resonates, among family, the Annapolis community, and the news industry
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