Mediagazer: Joi Ito resigns from MIT Media Lab and boards of The NYT Company and Knight Foundation, following report he hid funding role of “disqualified” Jeffrey Epstein (New York Times)

8:30 AM ET, September 9, 2019

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Joi Ito resigns from MIT Media Lab and boards of The NYT Company and Knight Foundation, following report he hid funding role of “disqualified” Jeffrey Epstein — Nearly a month after his death, Jeffrey Epstein continues to haunt some of America's most prestigious institutions.

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Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:

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Randall Lane / Forbes:

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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:

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Sarah Rieger / CBC News:

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Ren LaForme / Poynter:

Since publishing the DEA's opioid database in July, WaPo says 94 local and 11 national news outlets have used it for stories — In 2016, Eric Eyre at the Charleston Gazette-Mail revealed the breathtaking size and scope of the painkiller industry that was ravaging parts of West Virginia.

Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:

Survey: 74% of US adults think it's a good idea for journalists to use social media, but 65% disapprove of journalists sharing personal views about news — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans give a “thumbs up” to news reporters using social media to interact with their audiences …

Erin Hale / The Guardian:

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Michael Shermer / Skeptic:

Skeptic magazine finds John Anthony Glynn, a four-time contributor since 2016, falsified academic credentials; he published 40+ articles in 15 outlets in 2019 — Between 2016 and 2019 a writer named John Anthony Glynn, whose biography includes a Ph.D. in psychology and professorships …

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Ava Sirrah / Columbia Journalism Review:

Key findings from 32 interviews with staff inside branded content studios, including at NYT and WaPo, on how brands work with publishers to produce native ads — The news industry is full of ideas when it comes to experimenting with new storytelling formats and techniques—podcasts, virtual reality, Instagram posts.

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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:

Profile of NBC Nightly News host Lester Holt, who is the first African American to anchor a broadcast nightly news program without a white counterpart — NEW YORK — Lester Holt started thinking about crime and punishment in 1995 after serving as a media witness to the execution of George Del Vecchio.

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Peter Haldeman / Los Angeles Times:

Profile of Maer Roshan, Los Angeles magazine's new EIC who has added contributors and doubled daily content on its site, driving up traffic 60% since last year — An early summer lunch with Maer Roshan, the recently appointed and ninth editor in chief of Los Angeles magazine, began routinely enough.

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