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10:05 AM ET, July 29, 2019

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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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: @voxdotcom
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 …
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 …
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 …
Max Londberg / Cincinnati Enquirer:
District court judge throws out defamation lawsuit by Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann against The Washington Post  —  Ted Sandmann, father Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann, on why he wants doxing legislation to criminalize revealing a minor's identity online
Jordan Orlando / New Yorker:
A eulogy for MAD Magazine, which subverted the comic form into a mainstream ideological weapon, aimed at icons of the left and the right  —  The California painter and critic Manny Farber extolled “termite art” as occurring “where the spotlight of culture is nowhere in evidence …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vice Media is in talks to buy women-focused publisher Refinery29  —  Tie-up would unite women's-focused new-media company with one of its largest peers  —  Vice Media is in talks to buy women-focused publisher Refinery29, according to people familiar with the matter …
Dean Sterling Jones / BuzzFeed News:
Investigation finds dozens of cases of SEO consultants buying expired URLs linked to by major news sites, like the NYT, then redirecting them to clients' sites  —  In 2012, The Hollywood Reporter published a glowing obituary for Patricia Disney, the first wife of former Walt Disney Company executive Roy Disney.
 
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Pew Research Center:
Study of YouTube channels with 250K+ subs in early 2019: a small share produce most of the content, kids videos do very well, and most videos aren't in English
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
How Famous Birthdays, which has 20M unique monthly users, became Gen Z's Wikipedia for new internet stars and a talent resource for the entertainment industry
Micah Singleton / Billboard:
Profile of Oliver Schusser, who spent 15 years at Apple building iTunes' worldwide operations from the ground up and took charge of Apple Music 15 months ago
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom: 49% of UK adults use social media for news while 49% get news from newspapers, websites, and apps; 38% of UK adults get their news from newspapers alone
Discussion: @iainmacwhirter
Omar Sanchez / The Wrap:
The top 2020 Democratic candidates have all been on podcasts; in the 2016 campaign, Trump did no podcast interviews
Discussion: @rjcc and Breitbart
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Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
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