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A Trump supporter attacked BBC cameraman Ron Skeans and other news crews at a rally in El Paso, Texas, where Trump used anti-press rhetoric — A supporter of US President Donald Trump has attacked a BBC cameraman at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas. — Sporting a Make America Great Again cap …
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Review into sustaining high-quality journalism in the UK culminates in a 157-page report with nine recommendations including an innovation fund and tax cuts — The Cairncross Review into the sustainability of the UK news industry in the digital age has issued nine recommendations that …
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More than 240K people donated to 154 newsrooms in November and December 2018 via the NewsMatch program, with donations in 2018 up 50% YoY to $116M — In journalism's long and treacherous move away from ad dependency, the growing nonprofit news sector is trying to build a culture of philanthropy.
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Quartz's Global Chief Revenue Officer Joy Robins has joined the Washington Post as Chief Revenue Officer — The Washington Post today announced the appointment of Joy Robins as Chief Revenue Officer. Robins will oversee sales divisions that provide a range of innovative solutions …


Journalists at Connecticut's Hartford Courant are petitioning to unionize the newsroom, the latest Tribune Publishing paper to do so — Members of the Hartford Courant newsroom are moving to form a union, NPR has learned. It's the latest Tribune Publishing newspaper where journalists have been pushing to organize.
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Journalists documenting the migrant caravans are subject to heightened scrutiny by US and Mexican law enforcement officials, interviews reveal — Four photojournalists gathered on the southern side of the U.S.-Mexico border wall shortly after Christmas in Tijuana.


Snopes former managing editor Brooke Binkowski on fixing the damage from Facebook: hire well-resourced moderators, give back more to journalism, and more — Facebook has always struggled to comprehend the scale of its fake news and propaganda problem. Now, it's struggling to retain …
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Reddit raises $300M Series D at $3B valuation, with Tencent, Sequoia, a16z, Fidelity among investors, says it has 330M MAUs, half between the ages of 18 and 24 — - CEO Steve Huffman says the company will use the investment to improve Reddit's website and work to take digital ad market share away from Facebook and Google.
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Vincent Glad, creator of infamous French Facebook group “League of LOL”, and Libération's online editor Alexandre Hervaud have both been suspended by the paper — Two journalists who were part of an online “boys club” that allegedly harassed mainly female journalists …
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A group of French Twitter personalities, called LOL League, is accused of coordinating harassment campaigns against female and LGBTQ writers and people of color
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Leigh Gallagher, an assistant managing editor at Fortune, is joining Google as a director of external affairs — Leigh Gallagher, an assistant managing editor at Fortune, has been hired by Google to be a director of external affairs. — She will be based in New York.


MGM-owned cable channel EPIX is adapting Slate magazine's podcast Slow Burn into a six-part television docuseries — The MGM-owned premium cable channel EPIX announced on Sunday that they have given a greenlight to Slow Burn, a television adaptation of the popular Slate podcast created by Leon Neyfakh and Andrew Parsons.
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TechCrunch launches a $15/month membership tier, Extra Crunch, offering exclusive content and perks like access to a community of founders and vertical experts — TechCrunch has spent nearly 15 years covering the technology and startup worlds. This week it will try to forge a new kind of relationship with those communities.
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GOP lawmakers including Marco Rubio and Chuck Grassley are furious with the White House's refusal to issue report on Khashoggi murder — It's the latest rift between Republicans and the president over foreign policy. — Senate Republicans are fuming at President Donald Trump for telling lawmakers …