Mediagazer: Australian appeals court rules that media companies can be held responsible for defamatory comments posted under stories on their Facebook Pages (Michael Pelly/Australian Financial Review)

7:45 AM ET, June 1, 2020

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Nick Waters / bellingcat:

A collection of at least 50 separate incidents where journalists have been attacked by US law enforcement during the protests on May 29 and May 30 — Bellingcat has identified and collected multiple instances of US law enforcement deliberately targeting journalists during the protests against the killing of George Floyd.

Washington Post:

As reporters across the US are attacked, in some cases with rubber bullets, or arrested by cops while covering protests, an overview of over a dozen examples — Ali Velshi knew almost instantly what had happened when he felt a sharp pain in his leg Saturday night in Minneapolis: He'd been hit with a rubber bullet fired by police.

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Greg Wilson / Fox News:

A Fox News crew was harassed and chased out of Lafayette Park by protesters while covering the protests outside the White House — An angry mob of rioters stoked by the death of a black man at the apparent hand of a Minneapolis cop turned its rage on a Fox News crew early Saturday …

Tessa Duvall / Courier-Journal:

A reporter and camera operator appear to be shot with pepper balls fired by an officer during live segment on protests in Louisville, KY; LMPD issue an apology — A WAVE 3 journalist was live on air Friday night when a law enforcement officer turned toward her, aimed and began to fire …

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J. Clara Chan / The Wrap:

CNN's Atlanta HQ was vandalized and the CNN logo at the entrance was defaced during Friday's protests, which began peacefully, against the death of George Floyd — The CNN Center in Atlanta was vandalized on Friday during ongoing protests over the deaths of George Floyd and numerous other black men and women at the hands of police.

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Ben Smith / New York Times:

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft lays off editorial staff at its News and MSN divisions, reportedly affecting around 50 US and 27 UK jobs, as it increases use of AI for news curation — Microsoft News and MSN is increasingly being run by robots — Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers …

Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:

Reporters at South Carolina's Post & Courier, owned by Evening Post Industries, express concern at being forced to return to offices, despite rising COVID cases — “It just seems cruel,” one staffer said of the Post & Courier's edict. The announcement came the day after S.C. had its highest single-day jump in COVID cases.

Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:

Inside Paramount's decision to relinquish Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon to Apple; sources: the studio felt a script change didn't justify ~$180M budget — The studio balked at a script change that flipped Leonardo DiCaprio's role: “Smaller scale, same budget.”

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Julia Love / Reuters:

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Maria Bustillos / Popula:

Calls to save journalism turn it into an abstraction, when it's an ordinary and necessary social good carried out by reporters who need stable publications — According to films like Spotlight and The Post, journalism is a capital-C Calling that comes with sacrifice, heroism and violins.

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Michael Pelly / Australian Financial Review:

Australian appeals court rules that media companies can be held responsible for defamatory comments posted under stories on their Facebook Pages — Australia's leading media outlets are considering an appeal to the High Court after a ruling that publishers can be sued for comments on their Facebook pages.