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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Behind the Baltimore Sun's widely-read editorial written in response to Trump's tweets attacking the city, which drove atypical traffic and subscriptions — The paper of the city that President Trump attacked didn't mince words. — “Better to have a few rats than to be one,” the Baltimore Sun's editorial declared in its headline.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
The Fox News distortions behind Trump's attack on Baltimore and its congressman
The Fox News distortions behind Trump's attack on Baltimore and its congressman
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Common Dreams, @buddystone, Breitbart, @sduncovered, @kimkbaltimore, The Independent and Vanity Fair
Associated Press:
Jair Bolsonaro raises the possibility of jail for Glenn Greenwald after The Intercept Brazil reports on the contents of a minister's hacked phone conversations — RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's president renewed his attacks on journalist Glenn Greenwald on Saturday, raising the possibility …
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Mediaite, @theintercept, South China Morning Post, France 24, @postbaron, @jaketapper, @terrence_mccoy, @ggreenwald and @ggreenwald
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
EU's top court rules that sites with embedded Facebook Like buttons are responsible for data collected, must obtain user consent before data is sent to Facebook — Europe's top court has made a ruling that could affect scores of websites that embed the Facebook ‘Like’ button and receive visitors from the region.
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Ad Age, more at Techmeme »
Emily Bell / The Guardian:
In covering Boris Johnson's premiership, UK press should heed lessons from the US, where media largely normalized Trump over the past three years — British journalists faced with Boris Johnson should examine the American experience — If one wanted a metaphor for the perils and trials …
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American Press Institute, @lawrence, @sianberry, @liseinthecity, @greenslader, @churumuri, @emilybell and The Independent
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
NewsWhip data suggests publisher engagement on Facebook is rising with a dramatic increase in the number of native videos, but live video is in decline — It's not easy to get Facebook strategy straight when the only constant for publishers at the company is change, and a new report …
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@niemanlab
Debbie Emery / The Wrap:
Amid AT&T/DirecTV blackout, CBS reaches a multi-year content carriage deal with Altice — CBS and Optimum parent company Altice have reached a comprehensive, multi-year content carriage agreement, the two companies announced on Monday. — The new deal covers retransmission consent …
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Multichannel News, Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline and Hollywood Reporter
Kara Swisher / Vox:
Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on quarantining /r/The_Donald, a decision he says was intended to give the community a chance to change — /r/The_Donald was punished for hosting “violent content,” and Huffman isn't convinced the community's moderators are taking that problem seriously enough.
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@michaelrgallas and @voxdotcom
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
A farewell column by The Lowell Sun's laid off sports editor, taken down by management, is republished, criticizing cost-cutting at the hedge fund-owned paper — Note: The hedge fund-owned newspaper chain MediaNews Group recently laid off several people at its Massachusetts papers …
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@dawhitton, @dankennedy_nu, @dawhitton and Dan Kennedy
Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly:
Macmillan says it will limit libraries to only one perpetual access e-book during the first eight weeks of a book's release starting November 1 — More than a year after imposing a controversial four month “test” embargo on new release e-books in libraries from it's Tor imprint …
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@dancohen, @peterdonoughue, @melissa_hubbard, @rgibli, News and Press Center and Wall Street Journal
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
Disney has already broken the all-time annual box office record with $7.67B; the company set the previous record in 2016 — Predictions of Disney's box office domination in 2019 has proven to be all too true, as the studio has broken its own all-time annual global box office record …
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Observer, Variety, The Guardian, CNN, Quartz, @patrickadougall and The A.V. Club
Emiliano Mellino / WIRED UK:
Former staffers describe a fear-driven workplace at Culture Trip, the fast-growing UK media startup that's raised $100M and claims it has 18M monthly uniques — Culture Trip has raised $100 million and claims millions of visitors a month. Former staff members paint a less than perfect picture …
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@traveleditornik, @nthnashma, @jessicabateman, @ankaman616 and @rafat
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Dozens of journalists targeted by a group of Neo-Nazi swatters, who maintain a Deep Web database with the personal info of people who threaten their views — Nearly three dozen journalists at a broad range of major publications have been targeted by a far-right group that maintains …