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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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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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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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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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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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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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@nardalperez, @megankimble and The Texas Observer


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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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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@diflams and @factchecknet


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.


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 …


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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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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