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Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian:
Brexit funder Arron Banks issues legal threats against Netflix and journalist Carole Cadwalladr over The Great Hack documentary, which comes out this week — Legal threat comes as campaigners warn UK government that courts are being used to intimidate journalists
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The Guardian, @carolecadwalla, @carolecadwalla, @stilldelvingh and Digital TV Europe
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The Guardian:
Observer editor, press freedom nonprofits, and others pen open letter concerning rising use of SLAPP litigation in the UK to silence journalists — In an open letter to Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, and Jeremy Wright, the culture secretary, the Observer's editor …
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Press Gazette, @carolecadwalla, @caoilfhionnanna, @carolecadwalla, @justinbbarthet, @pcaruanagalizia, @peterjukes and @scottishpen
Knight Foundation:
Knight Foundation invests $50M at 11 American universities and research institutions to better understand how technology is transforming democracy — Cross-disciplinary research centers and projects will fill knowledge gaps on how society is informed in the digital age
Discussion:
Medium and @sarafischer
Max Willens / Digiday:
Insider has shifted its video strategy to focus on longer videos, with 35.5% of published videos from April-July 2019 running 5+ minutes, up from 7.8% last year — In 2017, Business Insider's top executives used their pitch at the NewFronts to talk about its short-form video know-how …
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@austin_rief and @mattnavarra
Steven Edginton / Daily Mail:
Steven Edginton, a Brexit party staffer who describes himself as a freelance journalist, says he was the middleman who passed the Darroch cables to the Mail — Lying awake at 2am last Wednesday and unable to sleep for the third night in a row, I listened as footsteps crunched up and down the gravel outside my ground-floor flat.
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Following Cairncross Review, UK establishes a £2M pilot fund for publishers to explore new ways of providing sustainable public interest journalism — The UK Government will establish a £2m innovation fund to support public interest journalism, with a focus on local and regional news providers.
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Former White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah, who left in January, has joined Fox as SVP, will report to Viet Dinh, Fox's chief legal and policy officer — Stelter looks at the Trump, Fox News ‘love story’ — (CNN)In the latest turn of the revolving door between the Trump administration …
Discussion:
@amy_siskind, @brianstelter, @brianstelter and Mediaite
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Inside the debate at BBC on how to describe Trump's tweets about the “squad” and why its anchors refrained from calling them racist while some reporters did not — “Our role is to be the platform on which the British people will have the argument. I don't want us to be sucked in by the Twitter mob."
Discussion:
@radioproducer, @jon_allsop, @triciamarwick, @thattimwalker, @evanhd, @markdistef and @charliebeckett
Columbia Journalism Review:
Report for America president responds to Tow Center assessment, recognizing need for more awareness of RFA and questioning if local candidates are always best — In May, CJR published a report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, entitled, 'Can Report for America build trust in local news?
Lydia Morrish / First Draft:
A look at the ethics of monitoring social media and how it can cross into surveillance, and the need for stronger guidelines to avoid compromising privacy — This post has been updated to acknowledge earlier writings on the subject that we felt should be attributed.
Discussion:
@kalexakoenig, @firstdraftnews, @shaydanayurbani and @cward1e
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
NYT Obits uses a statistical tool to “achieve a yearly 30% representation of women”, according to internal docs, though section editor says it's aspirational — The Times is using an “Obits Diversity Analysis Tool,” which monitors obituary subjects' genders.
Janet Steele / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporting on a politician's alleged gay sex tape in Malaysia creates difficulties for Muslim journalists trying to work within the rules of their religion — For the past six weeks, Malaysians have been mesmerized by a series of shocking sex videos. The video clips, which started circulating …
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