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Lyra McKee, Mediagazer editor, freelance journalist, and writer who wrote about the legacy of Northern Ireland's Troubles, was killed amid violence in Derry, NI — A 29-year-old woman has died after shots were fired in Derry, with police treating the death as a “terrorist incident”.
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Mike Harris / CNN:
Lyra McKee freely gave time and energy to fight Northern Ireland's archaic libel laws, which she said are used to silence investigative journalists — Mike Harris was a friend of journalist Lyra McKee, killed in Northern Ireland on Thursday night. Based in London, Harris is the CEO of 89up, a campaigns agency.
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Susan McKay / The Guardian:
Lyra McKee, a symbol of Irish freedom, worked to improve life for others: “It gets better for those of us who live long enough to see it get better” — How dare dissident republicans claim to ‘respect’ the writer. They have silenced a woman who told the stories of their forgotten victims
The Guardian:
People mourned Lyra McKee at local vigils; leaders of Northern Ireland's six main political parties issued a rare joint statement condemning the murder
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The Irish Times:
Writers pay tribute to Lyra McKee, the person and the writer: “the work she was doing is the opposite of silence”
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Mueller report not only validates reporting labeled “fake news” by Trump, it also shows that he and his aides misled or lied to the journalists and the public — If special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation makes one thing clear, it's that many of the news reports …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
In the wake of the release of the Mueller report, BuzzFeed reexamines its disputed story that said Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress — This Jan. 18, a day after BuzzFeed News reported that Michael Cohen told prosecutors that the president had directed him to lie to Congress …
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David Yanofsky / Quartz:
Scribd reinstates 32 copies of Mueller's report, which is in the public domain, says they were removed after algorithms identified them as copyrighted work — A convenient feature of nearly all documents created by the US government is that they have no copyright.
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@edbott, Gizmodo, @glynmoody and CNN
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Three printed versions of “The Mueller Report” rose to the top of Amazon and Barnes & Noble best-seller lists 24 hours after the release of Mueller's findings — New York (CNN)Three versions of “The Mueller Report” soared to the top of Amazon and Barnes & Noble's best-selling book charts …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
WarnerMedia pulls out of OpenAP, a media alliance for helping advertisers target TV viewers; alliance members include Viacom, Fox, Univision, and NBCUniversal — WarnerMedia is going its own way when it comes to helping advertisers find specific groups of TV-watchers.
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Adweek
Heather Kelly / CNN:
Facebook's subtle disclosure about storing millions of Instagram passwords in plain text before a holiday weekend shows it has mastered the art of the news dump — San Francisco (CNN Business)On the Thursday before a major holiday weekend, and an hour before the much-anticipated Mueller report …
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Quartz and @donie, more at Techmeme »
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Bustle's Bryan Goldberg on digital infrastructure, the importance of fashion and beauty ad revenue, and why some magazines will never succeed online — “I think the hard part for something like Esquire or Harper's Bazaar in digital — even to some extent Vogue — is that you get into the scale game.
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@ckrewson and @niemanlab
Avi Asher-Schapiro / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Upcoming Supreme Court case, FMI vs. Argus Leader, will focus on exemption used to redact parts of FOIA requests if they are deemed “confidential” — It's been over eight years since Jonathan Ellis, an investigative reporter at the Argus Leader, filed what he thought was a routine Freedom of Information Act request.
Kali Hays / WWD:
Nathan Coyle, CEO of Pride Media, which publishes queer mags like Out and The Advocate, has left the company amid long-standing issues of contributor nonpayment — Nathan Coyle has suddenly left the company behind Out and The Advocate magazines to lead Ford Models. — Out magazine's March cover.
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Advocate, MediaPost, New York Post and Hollywood Reporter
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Amazon Music launches an ad-supported tier for Alexa-enabled devices in the US, allowing users to listen to Amazon Music's top playlists and stations for free — Amazon Music today basically soft-launched its free streaming tier, in which U.S. customers of its Alexa voice assistant …
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Day One, RAIN News, Music Business Worldwide, hypebot, Android Police and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »
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YouTube Blog:
Google Home and Assistant-powered speakers get a free ad-supported version of YouTube Music with limited functionality, in 16 countries including the US and UK
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