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Seth Harp / The Intercept:
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 …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump threatened a reporter with jail time during an interview for Time magazine, after a photographer tried to take a photo of a letter from Kim Jong Un — New York (CNN Business)President Trump's interview with a team of reporters from Time magazine took a sudden turn when he made a comment about prison time for a journalist.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump speciously describes an NYT journalist making a request for confirmation to an FBI press liaison in 2017 as the NYT “feeding false stories” about him — In his long-running quest to prove the real collusion was collusion against Donald Trump, the president on Friday promoted …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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 — Is fact-checking possible in a place like Venezuela? — In June, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported …
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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.
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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