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Katie Sullivan / Media Matters for America:
NYT, WSJ, Chicago Tribune, and LAT left the report of sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll by Trump off their front pages, WaPo placed it below the fold — A new report of sexual assault committed by President Donald Trump has come to light, but several major newspapers didn't find …
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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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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 …
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
News Corp tabloid the Herald Sun offers journalists cash bonuses between $10 and $50 for driving digital subscriptions and traffic through their own stories — Reporters to be financially rewarded if readers subscribe to site and reach certain number of page views
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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 …
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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’
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
ThinkProgress editor Joe Romm and ex-Fox News reporter Carl Cameron team up to launch FrontPageLive.com, pitched as a liberal antidote to the Drudge Report — When folks leave Fox News, they quite often pursue projects that align with the worldview of their former employer.
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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