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Thom Geier / The Wrap:
Fox News did not air Jeanine Pirro's show on Saturday, a week after her remarks that Rep. Ilhan Omar may not support the US Constitution because she's a Muslim — Jeanine Pirro's weekly show on Fox News did not air on Saturday evening one week after the former federal judge suggested on air …
New York Times:
American officials citing intel reports say Jamal Khashoggi's killing was part of a broad campaign to silence dissenters, authorized by MbS over a year before — WASHINGTON — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia authorized a secret campaign to silence dissenters …
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@markmazzettinyt, Al Jazeera, @ceciliakang, Axios, @zackwhittaker, The Week, @axios, @karaswisher and @davidcayj
Kayleigh Barber / Folio:
Interview with Wired's EIC Nicholas Thompson and audience development director Indu Chandrasekhar on subscriptions, newsletters, Apple News, and more — A year after launching its paywall, Wired isn't done testing out new ways to capitalize on this and other consumer-based revenue models.
Discussion:
@kayleighjbarber and Talking Biz News
Facebook Journalism Project:
Facebook announces the Facebook Journalism Project Community Network to support projects aimed at building community through local news — Product Marketing Manager, Today In Local News Partnerships Lead — Over the last twenty-five years, news deserts - communities with little or no local reporting …
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Nieman Lab
Bloomberg:
A look at the National Enquirer's hedge fund owner, Chatham Asset Management, which sources say is being probed by the SEC's inspections division — - SEC has stepped up examinations of funds in opaque markets — Firm has also been ensnared in uproar over National Enquirer
Dan Kane / Poynter:
How Sunshine Week, an annual emphasis on open public records, helped amplify reporting on a flawed NC law that hid government harm and waste, leading to reform — I suspect in a lot of newsrooms there's a good bit of groaning as Sunshine Week nears. We know the message is important …
Andrew McCormick / Columbia Journalism Review:
A profile of David McCraw, the NYT's in-house lawyer, handling FOIA, crisis response, and matters in between: “How am I going to get this published?” — Late one Wednesday night, in October 2016, The New York Times received a letter from longtime Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.
Sam Nussey / Reuters:
In Japan, three-year-old online streamer AbemaTV has ~25 ad-supported channels and ~8M viewers per week with a focus on low-budget reality-based programming — TOKYO (Reuters) - On a Friday night at a downtown Tokyo television studio, 12 teen models with cutesy nicknames like Ayamin and Kyokyo …
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@reuters
Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Australian journalists covered the years-long child sex abuse investigation of George Pell and his subsequent trials amid court suppression orders — In February 2016, Lucie Morris-Marr broke news of a police probe into allegations that Australia's Cardinal George Pell …
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@cjr and @shelleymiranda
Bhanu Pratap / Reuters:
Facebook says it has removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attack in the first 24 hours; over 1.2M of those videos were blocked at upload — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the attack.
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Rollo Romig / New York Times:
Profile of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist, whose murder in 2017 became the symbol of the ruling party's war on journalists it often calls “presstitutes” — How the journalist Gauri Lankesh became a casualty of India's increasingly intolerant politics.
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@mohanguruswamy, @priyankkharge, @meenakandasamy and @pbhushan1
Nicole Sperling / Vanity Fair:
Since the Disney-Fox merger was announced, longtime 20th Century Fox employees say they've been issued mostly vague guidelines with no clear business directives — With the biggest entertainment merger in a lifetime about to close, anxiety is running high on the Fox lot and beyond.
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@jamsessionmb, @nicsperling, @newmutantsup, @charlieridgely and UPROXX