Mediagazer: Quartz is shutting down its Quartz Brief mobile app on July 1 and will focus on the main Quartz app and Qz.com (Max Willens/Digiday)

8:50 AM ET, June 24, 2019

Top News:

An American journalist describes his experience of being detained upon return to the US as CBP thoroughly searched his digital devices including personal data — I should have kept my mouth shut about the guacamole; that made things worse for me. Otherwise, what I'm about to describe …

Discussion: @jerometaylor, @natashabertrand, @jaomahony, @azadessa, @chastell, @living_marble, @cwarzel, @rodneydp, @mbrence, @theintercept, @turkewitz, @jameeljaffer and @mepfuller

Full Fact:

“Second generation” fact-checkers like Full Fact aim not only to publish but to apply moral, public, or regulatory pressure to stop the spread of misinformation — AFRICA CHECK, CHEQUEADO, AND FULL FACT — Fact checkers need to move from ‘publish and pray’ to ‘publish and act’

Daniela Flamini / Poynter:
Two Venezuelan fact-checkers talk about the challenges of their work and establishing legitimacy in a country where official sources and archives don't exist

Discussion: @factchecknet and @diflams

CNN:

NYPD arrested 66 people who were protesting the New York Times' coverage of climate change by calling for greater urgency and daily headlines — (CNN)Sixty-six people were arrested outside of The New York Times building in Manhattan on Saturday, according to a New York Police Department spokesman …

Discussion: The Guardian, Reuters, Slate and Newser

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

A look at some egregious cases of counterfeit books sold on Amazon; this year Amazon began listing sales of counterfeit goods as a material risk in SEC filings — SPERRYVILLE, Va. — “The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy” is a medical handbook that recommends the right amount …

Discussion: @mobylives and @amazonnews, more at Techmeme »

Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:

Court documents show a months-long text exchange between Paul Manafort and Fox News host Sean Hannity, with mutual compliments and Manafort offering sources — Court documents previously filed under seal with the government's sentencing recommendations for Paul Manafort were made public on Friday.

Max Willens / Digiday:

Quartz is shutting down its Quartz Brief mobile app on July 1 and will focus on the main Quartz app and Qz.com — “The Quartz app was always an experiment. And it was a good one," said David Ho, former executive mobile editor at The Wall Street Journal. “Quartz tried new things with notifications …

Discussion: @rafat and @media_evan

David Bauder / Associated Press:

A look at the dramatic changes in media coverage of LGBTQ issues, 50 years since the Stonewall riots that galvanized the LGBTQ rights movement — NEW YORK (AP) — During the 1969 series of riots that followed a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, the New York Daily News headlined a story …

Discussion: @apeastregion

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Gawker editor Ben Barna has left ahead of its fall relaunch and been replaced by a Time editor; the site's only two full-time writers quit in January — In the latest sign of editorial turbulence, the number two editor at the yet-to-relaunch Gawker is returning to Interview …

Andrew McCormick / Columbia Journalism Review:

Four journalists reflect on China's press outreach programs; report: 3,400+ media workers from 146 nations have received some professional training from China — An oral history of China's foreign press training programs — This February, in an auditorium in Beijing …

Discussion: @andrewmccormck, @raju and @cjr

Simon Owens / The Business of Content:

Q&A with Brian McCullough on the Techmeme Ride Home: how it began, recording ~30 episodes/month, and how its ad inventory has been sold out since June last year — In 2005, a computer software engineer named Gabe Rivera launched the site that would eventually become Techmeme.

Discussion: @simonowens

Gus Bova / Columbia Journalism Review:

After their local NPR member station was shut down by the Catholic Diocese that ran it, residents of the Rio Grande Valley are fighting to bring it back — Just after 2pm on May 30, public radio in the Rio Grande Valley—a 4,800-square-mile border region home to 1.4 million Texans—vanished from the airwaves.

Discussion: The Texas Observer, @megankimble and @nardalperez

Monojoy Bhattacharjee / What's New in Publishing:

In the next version of Chrome, out in July, publishers won't be able to detect when a browser is in incognito mode, potentially letting readers bypass paywalls — The ad blocking controversy is still fresh, and now publishers have to contend with yet another salvo from Google Chrome.

Ethan Jakob Craft / Ad Age:

Study: 85% of consumers listen to a radio broadcast at least once a week; 69% of consumers listen to radio daily compared to 34% for audio streaming services — In the U.S., radio is still king, but podcasts and streaming services are gaining ground — Millennial audio consumption …

Discussion: @garicruze

Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:

Universal Music Group sued in $100M+ class action lawsuit from Soundgarden, Tupac estate, others over a 2008 LA fire that allegedly destroyed master recordings — A class action lawsuit seeking at least $100 million in damages was filed Friday against Universal Music Group on behalf …