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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Journalists must change how they report on mass shootings by shining a light on solutions, insisting on more accountability from officials, and taking a side — Sadly, we in the news media know just how to do it. — When a mass shooting happens, even when it happens twice in a 24-hour period …
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@bgray5, @adviserdavid, @bgrueskin, @kenwardjr, @mireyawrites, @murpharoo, @sulliview, @connieschultz, @mlcalderone and @amlwhere
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Fox Corp. to buy a 67% stake in Credible Labs, a marketplace for consumer-lending info, for $265M and add up to $75M in growth capital over about two years — Deal for Credible, a marketplace for consumer-lending information, is part of Fox's digital strategy
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Ad Age, @awallenstein and PR Newswire
Kate Clark / TechCrunch:
AI-powered news aggregation app SmartNews raises $28M Series E led by Japan Post Capital, valuing the startup at $1.1B and bringing the total raised to $116M — A $28 million financing has made SmartNews, an AI-powered news aggregation app, a unicorn. — Japan Post Capital has led …
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Bloomberg and @rafat, more at Techmeme »
Alex Pappademas / New Yorker:
The Social Network trailer influenced the music in movie trailers with its choir cover of Creep; now many songs in trailers literally explain film plots — Every story, as movie trailers never tire of informing us, has a beginning. The story of the cover-song trend in movie trailers began nine years ago …
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Rui Pinto, Der Spiegel's “Football Leaks” source, now jailed in Portugal, who lawyers argue should have the same legal protections as whistleblowers — In 2016, a man who called himself John gave Der Spiegel, a German news magazine, 1.9 terabytes of data, or the equivalent of 500,000 Bibles.
Kara Swisher / Vox:
Interview with Pearson CEO John Fallon on the company's pivot from print to renting out cheaper digital textbooks, its upcoming Aida apps to help students, more — The list price for a new copy of Pearson's calculus textbook in hardcover is $277. But the rental market for used print copies …
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@michellemanafy, @amirmw, @ajayverghese and @pearson
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
Section 230 of the CDA is the internet's First Amendment; repealing it would hurt online speech and marginalized groups more than it would hurt Big Tech — From Josh Hawley to Kamala Harris, online free speech is under attack. — Imagine, for a moment, the following series of online exchanges.
Jessica Bennett / New York Times:
Playboy after the Hefner family: a young, socially conscious staff recruits female interviewers and photographers for its recently relaunched ad-free quarterly — The Hefners are gone, and so is the magazine's short-lived ban on nudity — as well as virtually anyone on the staff over 35.
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@ejeancarroll, @nytimes, Jezebel, @brianstelter and Newser
Adriana Carranca / Columbia Journalism Review:
After jail threat against Glenn Greenwald, experts say Brazilian law allows him to publish info of public concern even if a third party illegally obtained it — On June 9, the Intercept began publishing a series of investigative stories that sent shocks through Brazil.
Pak Yiu / AFP Correspondent:
A first-hand account of reporting in Xinjiang, China: suspicious people filming and following journalists, a fake car crash, roadblocks, and more — Kashgar, China — You expect to have problems when reporting on sensitive stories in China. People following you, thugs blocking your way …
Maddy Myers / Kotaku:
E3 website leaks personal info, including addresses and phone numbers, of 2,000+ reporters and content creators; E3 has removed file but data still circulates — A spreadsheet containing the contact information and personal addresses of over 2,000 games journalists, editors …
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Game Informer, Gizmodo, @baertaffy, @jennabusch, @kezamacdonald, @quantum_arbiter, @laura_hudson, @stephentotilo, VentureBeat, Comic Book, PCMag, VGC, Only Single Player, GameDaily.biz, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Digital Trends, CNET, GamesIndustry.biz, Business Insider, Deadline, Engadget, TechCrunch and YouTube, more at Techmeme »
Daniela Flamini / Poynter:
Internet shutdowns, which are on the rise by governments who say they're necessary to curb misinformation, can bar the dissemination of accurate information — In July of 2016, the young militant commander Burhan Wani was shot dead by government forces in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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