Mediagazer: NYT's digital transition team led internal data journalism boot camps, training 60+ employees over 18 months; resources they developed are now freely available (Lindsey Rogers Cook/Times Open)

4:35 AM ET, June 14, 2019

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Lindsey Rogers Cook / Times Open:

NYT's digital transition team led internal data journalism boot camps, training 60+ employees over 18 months; resources they developed are now freely available — And how your reporters can learn to love them, too — Five years ago, a lot of people in journalism were asking, wide-eyed, “Should journalists learn to code?”

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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:

President Trump announces on Twitter that Press Secretary Sarah Sanders will leave the White House at the end of the month — President Donald Trump made a stunning announcement on Twitter Thursday: that his longtime press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to leave the White House next month.

Brian Stelter / CNN:

Sarah Sanders' primary legacy will be the death of daily press briefings, as she shortened and then did away with the meetings; the last briefing was March 11 — New York (CNN Business)Sarah Sanders' primary legacy as White House press secretary will be the death of the daily press briefing.

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Several ad agencies tell a federal court Facebook agreed to a settlement in a lawsuit claiming Facebook misstated video metrics by 150-900% — Facebook was alleged to have been knowingly overstating viewership by as much as 900 percent. — Several advertising agencies told …

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James Walker / Press Gazette:

The UK's Evening Standard and Independent may face a government inquiry after an investor with ties to the Saudi State bought a share in their parent companies — The UK Government could open an investigation into the Evening Standard and The Independent after an investor with “strong links” …

Mariam Cheik-Hussein / AdNews:

After recent press raids by federal police, Australian media owners and journalists publish open letter seeking laws to protect whistleblowers and journalists — Media owners have united in an open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison asking him to defend press freedom in Australia.

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The Intercept:

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Helen Coster / Reuters:

Comcast to invest ~$1.27B over five years in Sky Studios programming, which will produce content for NBC, Universal Pictures, and other distributors — Comcast Corp will more than double its investment in European original programming and start an in-house studio at its European unit Sky …

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