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Ruchi Kumar / The Guardian:
Profile of Rukhshana, a news website started in 2020 by a collective of female Afghan journalists who are now at high risk of violence as the Taliban advance — A collective of female journalists are battling to make women's voices heard as the Islamist militants tighten their grip on the country
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@fullerproject, CNN, @babcpw, @eduardosuarez, @alex_n_boyd and @penamerica
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
More than 100 journalists employed by US government's radio stations are yet to be evacuated from Afghanistan as the Taliban take power — More than a hundred journalists employed by the American government's own radio stations remain in Afghanistan as the Taliban take power, U.S. officials and Afghan journalists said Sunday.
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Columbia Journalism Review and New Yorker
Azmat Khan / @azmatzahra:
[Thread] How US reporters who worked in Afghanistan can help Afghan nationals get referrals for the State Department's refugee program — Are you an American journalist who's worked in Afghanistan? Then there's a 100% chance you hired Afghan nationals to help you with your work. Here's how you might be able to help them right now... (a thread)
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@dzalcman, @wickdchiq, @lilahass, @mayjeong, @lucas_jackson_, @mahyadt, @amlivemon, @frankluntz, @vonwurmbseibel, @peterzeihan, @beautfc, @ranaayyub and @juichakravorty
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Profile of Red Ventures, the South Carolina-based digital media company that in recent years has bought CNET, Lonely Planet, The Points Guy, Healthline, more — Red Ventures has turned very specific advice into very big business. — INDIAN LAND, S.C. — Lindsey Turrentine first heard …
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@ted_williams, @jeffjarvis, @wexler, @nytimes, @lturrentine, @lturrentine, @jspujji, @marctorrence, @patriciamazzei, @felixsalmon, @benyt and @jspujji
Dean Sterling Jones / BuzzFeed News:
Snopes suspends its cofounder David Mikkelson after report finds he published 54 articles between 2015 and 2019 with plagiarized material from LAT and others — David Mikkelson, the cofounder of the fact-checking website Snopes, has long presented himself as the arbiter of truth online …
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New York Times, @janelytv, @lwoodhouse, @roncjudd, @thatandromeda, @cernovich, @sesmith, @repthomasmassie, @kurtschlichter, @brooklynmarie, @brooklynmarie, Snopes.com, @kenvogel, @zigmanfreud, @roddreher, @brooklynmarie, @brooklynmarie, @brooklynmarie, @johnpaczkowski, Breitbart, The Wrap, @carnage4life, @politicussarah, @lucasbrowneyes, @beinlibertarian, @rothschildmd, @thisbrokenwheel, @garrett_archer, @nathanallebach, @skilletdoux, @s_m_i, @govmikehuckabee, @sethdillon, @film_girl, @mathewi, @nelliebowles, @lorakolodny, @aejmcethics, @film_girl, @nelliebowles, @buzzfeednews, @buzzfeednews, @justinbaragona, @naveedajamali, @thefoodeconomy, @chrismsutcliffe, @mantzarlis, @mathewi, @brandyzadrozny, @mathewi, @craigsilverman, @craigsilverman, New York Post, Fox News, The A.V. Club, The Hill, National Review, Substack, Occulted Ordinary, Insider, Boing Boing and The Verge
Hollywood Reporter:
Some investors urge Disney to ditch its streaming bundle with Hulu and ESPN+ in favor of an all-in-one Disney+ offering, bringing it closer to the Netflix model — The success of the streaming bundle has led some investors to call for an all-in-one Disney+ streaming offering. Is CEO Bob Chapek interested?
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@bygeorgethomas, @davidpoland, @reeljeffewing and @alexweprin
Kelly Gilblom / Bloomberg:
Study of 6,000 websites and 900 apps that host pirated movies and TV finds they make ~$1.3B per year from ads, including ads by Amazon, Facebook, and Google — - Stolen-content providers make $1.3 billion a year, study says — Amazon, Facebook, Google contribute ads to the websites
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Beyond Search
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Future Publishing acquires Dennis Publishing, which runs The Week, IT Pro, Minecraft World, and other titles, for £300M — Future continues buying spree with purchase of 12 titles including The Week and Computer Active — Future, the owner of titles including Country Life and Metal Hammer …
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Press Gazette, Future and Adweek
Kate Kaye / Digiday:
Google has quietly met with around 20 publishers since March to discuss its Privacy Sandbox initiative, including FLoC, as it prepares to move beyond cookies — Google engineers and staff on its ads and Chrome teams have a new monthly meeting on their calendars — with digital publishers.
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@astaniscia86
Matthew Sheffield / Flux:
Interview with media critic Eric Boehlert on the persistence of obsolete “both sides” journalism, the rise of “faux left” pundits like Glenn Greenwald, and more — Media critic Eric Boehlert discusses how the mainstream press refuses to acknowledge that the Republican Party has turned against democracy
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@theorychange, @mattsheffield, @clearing_fog and @ericboehlert
Angela Fu / Poynter:
NPR has developed Dex, a tool attached to its CMS where staff submit information on sources' race, age range, gender identity, and location to monitor diversity — After deciding to track demographics for all its sources in 2020, NPR built a tool to make the process part of reporters' daily newsgathering
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insideradio.com, @johngramlich, @peterbale, @raju, @louisestory, @tanyapampalone, @jamespoulos and @poynter
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
Netflix blocks some residential IP addresses used by VPN services to bypass geographic restrictions; Netflix originals access is unaffected — Six years ago, Netflix started blocking customers who tried to access its service over a commercial VPN or proxy service.
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Ars Technica and The Diff
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