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Charles Whitaker / Medill:
Northwestern's journalism school dean says The Daily Northwestern's protest coverage was responsible and fair, and student journalists faced “vicious bullying” — “Journalists have a heady responsibility performing our role as the authors of the first rough draft of history …
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Robby Soave / Reason:
Northwestern University's student newspaper The Daily Northwestern sparks backlash for editorial apologizing for its news reporting that offended some students — The Daily Northwestern is the student newspaper of Northwestern University, which is home to the Medill School of Journalism …
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Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Emails from 2015-2016 to Katie McHugh, then at Breitbart, show how WH adviser Stephen Miller helped shape stories to mirror or amplify white nationalist ideas — In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Politico owner Robert Allbritton is officially announcing his new tech site, Protocol, to launch in early 2020 with several dozen journalists and business staff — With talent poached from Wired, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, etc., and coverage written for “C-suite kinds of folks …
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Sources: former HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler is in talks with Apple for an exclusive deal for his new production company — Former HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler is back with a new venture, a production company based at Apple. — Plepler, who exited HBO at the end of February …
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Splinter:
Splinter staff says farewell in final joint post: “I remember my editor telling me ‘no heroes’, and we stuck with that”, said Managing Editor Katherine Krueger — There is no real origin story for Splinter. — Across my two years as editor in chief …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at AARP's significant media presence, with $174M in print and digital ad revenue in 2017 and magazine circulation that surpassed People's — “OK, millennials. But we're the people that actually have the money," Myrna Blyth, senior vice president and editorial director of AARP Media …
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists are anonymously sharing their salaries and other relevant information like their gender identity, location, and work history in a public Google doc — When journalists want to talk among themselves about something difficult, the anonymous Google Doc seems to have become the mechanism.
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Lara O'Reilly / Digiday:
Ad tech company Sharethrough, which had specialized in native ads, is shutting EU operations, cutting 11 jobs in London; CEO says GDPR hit operations severely — Sharethrough is shutting its European operations. The San Francisco-based company said it is centralizing support for its U.K …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The Atlantic revamps its iOS app, which now opens to a human-curated Today screen, with the rest of the content paywalled for $4.99/month or $49.99/year — Along with a redesign, The Atlantic launched a revamped iOS app Tuesday. — The iOS-only app starts off with a “Today” screen …
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Karen Zraick / New York Times:
A University of Illinois policy requiring NPR member station reporters to disclose information about sources who report sexual misconduct comes under criticism — The university, which owns the license for NPR Illinois, says the station's journalists are bound by Title IX rules …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
BBC-funded Local Democracy Reporting Service expands to Northern Ireland, with 11 news orgs representing 35+ print, online, and broadcast titles as partners — The BBC-funded Local Democracy Reporting Service has expanded to Northern Ireland, where journalists have watched with an …