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Trump's DOJ battled in court with CNN for six months, in secrecy, to get email records for Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr, covering two months in 2017 — Washington (CNN)The Trump administration battled with CNN for half a year to obtain the email records of a reporter and insisted …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Sources: AG Merrick Garland is meeting with leaders of NYT, WaPo, and CNN on Monday to discuss concerns over prosecutors' practices in leak investigations — Lawyers for the newspaper are asking how the Justice Department justified keeping the order secret since its leak inquiry was publicly known.
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Gwynedd Stuart / Los Angeles Magazine:
Profile of Yashar Ali, who breaks his biggest stories on Twitter and Substack, unencumbered by the fact-checking and legal vetting required by news outlets — I'm extremely upset. Yashar Ali delivers this news as he settles into a booth in the lobby of Santa Monica's Proper Hotel.
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Joel Simon will step down as executive director of CPJ by the end of 2021; Kathleen Carroll will lead a committee of board members to identify a successor — Executive Director Joel Simon will step down by the end of 2021 after 15 years in the role — New York, June 9 …
The New York Times Company:
NYT says Stella Bugbee, most recently an editor-at-large at New York magazine, will be its Styles editor — Stella joins The Times from New York magazine and brings a broad and ambitious vision for Styles coverage, one that embraces fashion and lifestyle even as it explores issues of politics, gender, power and fame.
New York Times:
About 100 union members at The New Yorker, Ars Technica, and Pitchfork picketed Anna Wintour's home Tuesday, pushing Condé Nast for better pay and job security — After more than two years of negotiations with the magazine's parent company, Condé Nast, more than 100 demonstrators marched …
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Nicole Moorefield / The Daily Tar Heel:
Walter Hussman says he was concerned about Hannah-Jones' “celebrity” status and the 1619 Project overshadowing his core values for UNC's journalism school — Walter Hussman told The Daily Tar Heel on Friday that he was concerned about Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project overshadowing …
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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Biden signs an EO revoking the Trump-era bans on TikTok and says his commerce secretary will investigate any risks to national security and privacy — But the apps still aren't out of hot water — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday revoking the Trump-era bans on TikTok and WeChat.
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Alex Barker / Financial Times:
Sources: Guardian Media Group CEO Annette Thomas quit after a battle over strategy with Editor Katharine Viner as the Guardian examines its power structure — Publishing boss disagreed with Katharine Viner over direction and governance of group — Guardian Media Group chief executive Annette Thomas …
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Megan Graham / CNBC:
Facebook says global ads chief Carolyn Everson is leaving after more than a decade; Everson was a liaison to big marketers during major controversies — - Facebook global ads chief Carolyn Everson is departing the company. — Facebook is an advertising giant that is expected to command nearly …
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Jamie Irving / Toronto Star:
Several Canadian newspapers publish an open letter to Justin Trudeau demanding Australia-style “legislation to break the Google/Facebook stranglehold on news” — Dear Prime Minister Trudeau: — The media outlets publishing this letter are competitors. We publish news in every region in Canada.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Apple's changes to notifications on phones and the addition of Mail Privacy Protection could hurt publishers, including solo newsletter publishers on Substack — The news alerts you send to iPhones might be about to disappear from your users' screens. The bedrock metric of the newsletter business just got murdered.
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Steven Waldman / Los Angeles Times:
Congress could help local news organizations by offering incentives to newspaper owners and to readers, such as loan guarantees and tax credits — With Alden Global Capital's recent acquisition of the Tribune Publishing newspaper chain, the country has reached a troubling milestone …
R.T. Watson / Wall Street Journal:
Tribeca Festival drops Film from its name, as it embraces podcasting alongside interactive mediums like gaming and virtual reality — New York's biggest film event embraces podcasting along with interactive mediums like gaming and virtual reality — The Tribeca Film Festival is no longer just a film festival.
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