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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
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Robert Eliason:
Local reporter in Gilroy, CA, describes national news media swarming in to cover the aftermath of the Garlic Festival shooting, crowding out local press — Thinking this will be the last post I do on this craziness. — I was decompressing from a long couple of days when my friend Issac called to see if I was at the Festival.
Ira Boudway / Bloomberg:
Aggressively expanding sports news site The Athletic says it hit 500K paying subscribers in June and expects to nearly double that number by the end of the year — The Athletic, a sports-news subscription service launched in 2016, said it has reached more than 500,000 subscribers and expects to nearly double that total by year-end.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Inside Trump's voracious media diet, made up of major newspapers and printouts of online articles, which staffers use to try to influence him — His newspaper habit is a tool for the president to reward allies and punish foes — and a weapon for those trying to influence him.
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Chronicle of Higher Education:
Corbin Gwaltney, founder and editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Chronicle of Philanthropy, has died at 97 — Corbin Gwaltney, the pioneering editor who founded The Chronicle of Higher Education in 1966 and later The Chronicle of Philanthropy, died on July 29.
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Cloud movie locker UltraViolet is shutting down on July 31, requires customers to link their accounts to a partner to save their digital purchases — Cloud movie locker UltraViolet is shutting down this coming Wednesday (7/31), putting an end to one of Hollywood's more ambitious efforts to promote the ownership of digital content.
Marisa Peryer / Columbia Journalism Review:
Native Hawaiians comment on the national coverage of their resistance to telescope construction on Mauna Kea, which has downplayed Hawaiians' range of concerns — In 2009, an international consortium of scientists set their sights on Hawai'i's Mauna Kea volcano as its preferred location for a massive, cutting-edge telescope.
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Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
YouTube TV reaches a deal to carry any PBS member station that chooses to participate later this year; it is the first live TV streaming partnership for PBS — The Streamable is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission when you sign up with our links.
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Brian Hiattt / Rolling Stone:
Inside Media Matters, the 15-year-old, left-leaning news watchdog undertaking a 24/7 fight against Fox News — On the front lines with Media Matters — the conservative network's worst nightmare — If you believe former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, Media Matters for America is the nation's …
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A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
HuffPost editor-at-large and former Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward is joining CNN as senior reporter — HuffPost editor at large Vicky Ward is joining CNN today as senior reporter, based in New York. — Ward is a best-selling author, investigative reporter and magazine columnist …
CNN:
In the last month, four big-budget Chinese films have been pulled shortly before release with tenuous explanations, sparking censorship concerns — Four seemingly innocuous big-budget movies have been abruptly pulled from Chinese cinemas in one month, sparking suspicion they fell afoul of the country's strict censors.
Lauren Johnson / Business Insider:
Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke says it won't report viewership data; the company's co-head of TV says Amazon doesn't share absolute numbers with creators — - Amazon head of studios Jennifer Salke said that unlike Netflix, the company doesn't plan to offer viewership data to creators.
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