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6:55 AM ET, September 1, 2019

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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Jack Mirkinson / Splinter:
Bret Stephens and his NYT editors get blasted over his latest column, which references bedbugs and Nazis; critics view the column as a clear jab at David Karpf  —  New York Times columnist Bret Stephens' meltdown over being jokingly referred to as a “bedbug” reached unbelievable new heights on Friday night …
Charles Hutzler / Wall Street Journal:
China declines to renew a WSJ reporter's press credentials, effectively forcing him to leave the country, following a June article on President Xi's family  —  Chun Han Wong, a Singaporean national, has worked in Beijing for the Journal since 2014  —  BEIJING—A reporter for The Wall Street Journal …
Jordyn Grzelewski / Plain Dealer:
The 150-year-old Vindicator in Youngstown, OH, closes Saturday, affecting about 140 full-time employees and surviving only as an edition of a nearby Ogden paper  —  YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — The Vindicator has been a part of Sam and Rochelle Miller's lives for as long as they can remember.
Margaret Harding McGill / Politico:
Source: Google has agreed to pay between $150M and $200M to resolve an FTC investigation into YouTube over alleged violations of federal privacy laws for kids  —  Google has agreed to pay between $150 and $200 million to resolve an FTC investigation into YouTube over alleged violations …
Rozina Ali / Columbia Journalism Review:
International news outlets, relying mainly on India and Pakistan analysts to explain Kashmir, are missing an important part of the story: free will of Kashmiris  —  In mid-February, a young man named Adil Ahmed Dar killed 44 Indian paramilitary officers in a suicide bombing in Kashmir's Pulwama district.
Discussion: @cjr
Rainesford Stauffer / Teen Vogue:
How teens are closing the news gap for young people through outlets like the text and email newsletter theCramm and the Instagram account dailydoseofwokeness  —  Teens care about the news.  They just don't like traditional media.  —  In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election …
Jenni Marsh / CNN:
Profile of Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai, whose Apple Daily newspaper, low-cost, populist, and sensational, has never shied away from an anti-Beijing stance  —  Hong Kong (CNN)Jimmy Lai has been a public target for decades.  —  It all started after the Hong Kong business tycoon — a refugee from China …
Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:
Executive editor of Gannett's Arizona Republic sent a newsroom memo accusing union organizers of surveilling co-workers; one organizer called the idea “absurd”  —  Greg Burton accused union sympathizers of “surveilling” other journalists, saying that's something he'd expect of a murderer or child molester.
Styli Charalambous / Nieman Lab:
How South Africa's digital news startup the Daily Maverick, founded in 2009, designed its membership model to promote free, quality, independent content for all  —  On August 15, 2018, we announced to attendees of our Media Gathering event in Cape Town the start of our adventures into membership for Daily Maverick.
Bertrand Pecquerie / Global Editors Network:
Q&A with Alan Rusbridger, who helped launch Guardian's “Keep it in the ground” anti-fossil fuel campaign, on effectiveness and ethics of journalists' campaigns  —  As the climate emergency intensifies worldwide, the line between reporting and campaigning needs to be redefined.
Discussion: @medialens
Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review:
Discussion: @techreview
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: Disney has laid off National Geographic workers, with one source saying as many as 80 are affected; US editions of Nat Geo Traveler to stop publication  —  Walt Disney has laid off employees of the National Geographic unit it acquired from the former 21st Century Fox …
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Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land:
Google is reorganizing how it presents publisher content policies and standardizing rules across AdSense, AdMob and Ad Manager; updates go live in September
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Union contracts at times fail to address new forms of work, such as when social media staff are labeled “editorial” and barred from branded content distribution
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Esther Kezia Thorpe / What's New in Publishing:
The New York Times puts up a hard registration wall, requiring visitors to log in or create a free account to read articles
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Shira Tarlo / Salon:
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell retracted a thinly sourced report alleging Russian oligarchs co-signed loans for Trump; Trump then blasted O'Donnell on Twitter