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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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Quint Forgey / Politico:
WH Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham attacks WaPo via an op-ed and tweets, leveling her harshest critiques off camera, a departure from predecessors' approach — Stephanie Grisham flashed signs this week of how she'll serve as Donald Trump's defender-in-chief, firing off a series …
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Sarah Rieger / CBC News:
Vancouver Sun apologizes for a xenophobic op-ed critical of ethnic diversity, which was published in print on Saturday; the op-ed was deleted from its website — Op-ed was deleted from newspaper's website and replaced with apology — An op-ed published by a Calgary instructor …
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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.
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Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:
She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey is an instant investigative journalism classic that details the hurdles reporters faced breaking the Weinstein story — Review of 'She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement' by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
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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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Mary Acklin / CivicScience:
Survey of 1,300+ Americans aged 13+ finds that more than half prefer episodes of a TV show to be released all at once, while one-third prefer weekly release — It almost feels uncommon now not to just allow the next episode of your favorite TV show to start playing.
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Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
NYT's Matthew Rosenberg, who covers political disinformation ahead of the 2020 election, describes his tech tools: burner phones, encrypted messaging, LinkedIn — As the 2020 race heats up, here's how Matthew Rosenberg, a politics reporter, is preparing for an onslaught of intentional falsehoods.
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
Right-wing trolls, who rose to prominence in 2016, find themselves off media's radar because of deplatforming and greater interest in the Trump/Fox connection — Milo Yiannopoulos leaving a “Demand Free Speech” rally in Washington, DC, in July 2019. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
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Elizabeth Jensen / NPR:
A look at NPR's “context sets,” post-interview segments during which beat reporters fact-check and contextualize guests' remarks — One of the favorite parts of my job is when I get to talk directly to NPR listeners and readers at events organized by NPR member stations.
The Daily Beast:
ThinkProgress, an editorially independent project of the think tank Center for American Progress, ends operations on Friday; a dozen staffers will be laid off — A search had been underway for a new publisher. But none was found. — ThinkProgress, the influential news site that rose …
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Angela Lashbrook / onezero.medium.com:
Amazon has done little to improve Goodreads, which has basically remained a list-making app with design flaws and features that don't help avid readers — Despite Amazon's innovation elsewhere, Goodreads has stagnated for 12 years, and its problems are endless
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