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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Wired Keeps Calling Trump ‘Someone With Tiny Hands’ Due to a Chrome Extension Error — Wired published an embarrassing correction to a story by Jason Tanz about Donald Trump today. Apparently he or his editors had a Chrome extension turned on that changed every mention of “Donald Trump” to “Someone With Tiny Hands.”
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Wired, Mediaite, FishbowlDC, Slate, @emilydreyfuss, @joemfbrown, The New York Observer, Associated Press, @iandees, @raju, @dansinker, The Daily Caller, @justinwolfers, Mashable and The Verge
Max Read / New York Magazine:
Hulk Hogan-Gawker trial reminds one journalist about the dangers of jokes in internal, searchable, archived chats — Hulk Hogan Taught Me Never to Make a Bad Joke on Slack Again — Thanks to the Hogan lawsuit, my chat joke — and my co-worker's noble attempt to explain it to a lawyer — is now a matter of public record.
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Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
Buckingham Palace launches official complaint over Sun front page claiming Queen supports Brexit — Buckingham Palace has complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) about a report in the Sun newspaper which claimed that the Queen had voiced strong Eurosceptic views.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski grabs arm of Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, nearly bringing her to the ground — Trump campaign manager gets rough with Breitbart reporter — Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski forcibly yanked Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields …
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The Wrap, Mashable, @jamie_weinstein, Breitbart, Washington Post, Salon, TheBlaze.com, Hit & Run, Gawker, Independent Journal Review, Raw Story, Western Journalism, @davidfolkenflik, The Huffington Post, TVNewser, @chrisloesch, Talking Points Memo, The Week, @rumpfshaker, @dougstafford, Mediaite, @sttbs73, @jamilsmith, @reditweets, @mattdpearce, @mlcalderone, @marcacaputo, @sennettreport, @bdomenech, @ellencarmichael, @politico and @alexburnsnyt
Jason Leopold / VICE News:
It Took a FOIA Lawsuit to Uncover How the Obama Administration Killed FOIA Reform — The Obama administration has long called itself the most transparent administration in history. But newly released Department of Justice (DOJ) documents show that the White House has actually worked aggressively behind …
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Freedom of the Press …, U.S. Department of Justice, The Hill, The Daily Caller, @trevortimm, Techdirt, Guardian, @snowden and E Pluribus Unum
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter updates Moments for better mobile browsing by sending users to AMP-powered pages — Twitter Moments, the feature that's meant to highlight the best of Twitter in a more magazine-like format, has so far failed to incite further user growth, as was initially hoped.
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The Twitter Blog, VentureBeat, Plagiarism Today, The Next Web, @marklittlenews and @janamal
Michael Forsythe / New York Times:
Caixin highlights government censoring its Chinese-language site by publishing exposé on its English-language site, raising questions about press control — Chinese Publication, Censored by Government, Exposes Article's Removal — A news organization led by one of China's …
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Kenneth Tan / Shanghaiist:
China's internet censors shut down the South China Morning Post's accounts on Sina Weibo, Tencent, and WeChat, eradicating its online presence in the mainland
China's internet censors shut down the South China Morning Post's accounts on Sina Weibo, Tencent, and WeChat, eradicating its online presence in the mainland
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@cpjasia, @meifongwriter, Hong Kong Free Press, @juliemaklat, @limlouisa, Hindustan Times, EJ Insight and Tech in Asia
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Viceland to launch in the UK and Ireland on Sky and Now TV in September — Vice to launch TV channel on Sky in UK — 24-hour Viceland is the first of 12 planned services across Europe — Vice Media has struck a non-exclusive deal to launch a TV channel on Sky in the UK and Ireland, its first channel launch in Europe.
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Press Gazette, Broadcasting & Cable, Media Week, Hollywood Reporter, Forbes, Mediatel, Tubefilter, StreamDaily, Realscreen, Telegraph, Business Insider, TVEUROPE, City A.M., Recombu, Broadband TV News, The Wrap, Advanced Television, The Drum, Wired.co.uk, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business, Deadline and Variety
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
YouTube cofounder Steve Chen launches Nom, a livestreaming service that's Twitch for food shows — Ladies and gentlemen, start your mixers! — Trying to tap the growing popularity of live video streaming and online food communities, YouTube cofounder Steve Chen has unveiled Nom.
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TechCrunch, VideoInk, Gizmodo UK, Tubefilter, Fortune and Engadget
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google received 19M DMCA takedown requests last week, growing from 8M in 2015 and 6M in March 2014 — Google Asked to Remove 100,000 ‘Pirate Links’ Every Hour — In recent years copyright holders have overloaded Google with DMCA takedown notices, targeting links to pirated content.
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Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business:
While Apple lost price-fixing lawsuit, its push to raise ebook prices succeeded, undercutting the fledging industry and leading to ebook sales decline — How Apple and Big Publishers Pushed E-Books Toward Failure — The end of a high-profile lawsuit over e-books shows how a plan to push …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Hoping to make audio more shareable, WNYC introduces “audiograms” for social media — If you think about the way you scroll through social media in a given day, you'll realize that it includes a lot of sampling — clicking through and scanning an article, or watching a short video with the sound off.
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Damaris Colhoun / Columbia Journalism Review:
Verifeye Media launches iOS camera app to allow freelancers and eyewitnesses upload and sell video and photos for £200 flat fee split 50-50 — Should we be monetizing user-generated content? — In 2011, John McHugh, an Irish photojournalist, was trying to get to Bahrain to cover the Arab Spring.
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Journalism.co.uk, @damarisdeere, American Press Institute and App Store