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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 …
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@theintercept, South China Morning Post, @terrence_mccoy, @postbaron, France 24, @ggreenwald, @ggreenwald and @jaketapper
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, @greenslader, @churumuri, @emilybell and The Independent
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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@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 …
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, @patrickadougall, CNN, Quartz and The A.V. Club
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 …
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@dancohen, @peterdonoughue, @melissa_hubbard, @rgibli, News and Press Center and Wall Street Journal
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
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Washington Post, Reason, CNN, @amy_siskind, @carolleonnig, @dankennedy_nu, Rolling Stone, @jnoisecat, Mediaite, @wesleylowery, @jonathanderson, @brianstelter and CityBeat Cincinnati
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 …
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@newyorker, @newyorker, @veronicalderon, @artsjournalnews and @sansip
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 …
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@keccers, @raju, Deadline, @johnpgarrett, @originalspin, @moorehn, @awallenstein and Variety
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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One Man & His Blog, @film_girl, @baekdal, @roundtrip, @michellemanafy, @kammie_jenkins, @jfruh, @chronotope, @glennf, @klingebeil and @josephfcox