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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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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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Los Angeles Times, @pamacious, @sbnationreports, @supermarke, @jpballoujourn1, @jasonkeath, @postbaron and The San Francisco Examiner


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


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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@mikevanesler, @bristei, @mikeroyce, @bristei, @bristei, @bristei and @bristei


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


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


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, Pew Research Center, @brizzyc and Nieman Lab


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


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 …


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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@coreyhutchins, @rispolimike, @centercoopmedia, @thensim0nsaid, @usprojectcjr, @jsamditis, @ericsandy, @cjr, @fourthestateorg and @mathewi


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


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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American Press Institute