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Laura Waxmann / The San Francisco Examiner:
Police and FBI raided the home and office of journalist Bryan Carmody, handcuffing him, in a probe into a leaked police report about a public defender's death — Police raided the home and office of a freelance journalist Friday morning. — Police raided the home and office …
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Bryan Carmody says SF police raided his home and office instead of targeting other media because he is a freelancer; lawyer: police should have used a subpoena — Bryan Carmody, a freelance reporter in San Francisco, awoke Friday to the sounds of someone trying to break into his house.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Despite a plunge in viewership of US broadcast and cable networks, eMarketer expects overall advance commitments for TV ads to rise 2.4% YoY to $21.25B in 2019 — Analysis: Prognosticators keep calling for TV's demise. Madison Avenue has a different view.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
New media ventures like Vox are struggling while old media, like NYT, is flourishing because the only disruption in media happened in distribution, not content — KEY POINTS — Old media companies such as Disney and The New York Times have flourished in recent years while new media ventures …
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@jasonabbruzzese, @chrisroper and @rafat
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
In an era of information warfare, few newsrooms are prepared to train their reporters on how to keep themselves and their sources safe in cyberspace — In 1970, the Canadian cultural theorist Marshall McLuhan famously predicted that World War III, when it comes, will be …
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@cjr, @cjr, @usprojectcjr and @jafurtado
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
As social media makes talking to reporters riskier, journalists consider ways of making talking to sources less “extractive” by setting expectations and more — “Extractive” is a tough word. “Extractive” evokes strip mining and mountaintop removal, age-old resources being burned for short-lived gains.
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@emgollie, @spj_tweets and @brizzyc
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James Fallows / The Atlantic:
A profile of the nearly century old family-owned daily The Commercial Dispatch of Columbus, MS, which now has 12 editorial staff and a paid circulation of ~13K — As mentioned in the kickoff post in this new “Our Towns” series, anyone who cares about America's civic, cultural …
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@jamesfallows, @bgrueskin and @victoria_cheyne
Parker Molloy / Columbia Journalism Review:
Media treatment of intersex and transgender athletes primes readers to think their wins are unjust by often conflating the two and framing them as unbeatable — South African track and field superstar Caster Semenya is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion in the women's 800-meter.
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@parkermolloy, @cjr, @parkermolloy and Media Matters for America
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Q&A with Katherine Pope, head of Charter Communications' new original content division, on plans for Spectrum Originals as its first scripted series debuts — A year ago, Charter Communications' new original content division headed by Katherine Pope made its first major programming move …
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
The town of Longmont, CO, is debating whether to add a tax to fund a public library that might include an editorially independent local newsroom — A late-night debate in a sparsely attended city council chamber in Colorado on Tuesday opened a new front in the national conversation about how to sustain local news.
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George Gene Gustines / New York Times:
As movie and TV adaptations fueled an $80M YoY growth in comic book sales in 2018, smaller comic book publishers are adopting new business strategies to compete — A merger of two independents, Lion Forge and Oni Press, is the latest example of new strategies that are shaping the business.
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@spookychan, @georgegustines and @nytimes
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Cleveland.com tests a $3.99/mo service that gives readers direct texts from reporters; ~1,200 people signed up for a free trial, and a “few hundred” are paying — “Never too early for this game: How many NFL Draft picks will Ohio State have next season?
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