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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
US intel officials say UAE orchestrated hacking of Qatar News Agency and social media sites in late May to plant false statements, sparking regional crisis — The United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of Qatari government news and social media sites in order to post incendiary false quotes attributed …
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Reuters, The Guardian, Motherboard, @nawafalthani, France 24, Reuters, The Daily Caller, The Week, Forbes, @emptywheel and Mother Jones, more at Techmeme »
Max Willens / Digiday:
Politico Pro has 20K subscribers and generates 50% of the site's annual revenue — On Monday, Politico is expected to announce a series of updates and a new product for Politico Pro, its subscription service, including a legislation compass that tracks the progress of bills making …
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@bryandbender, @michaelkruse, @talkopan and @digiday
BBC:
The BBC's Doctor Who casts its first female Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, succeeding Peter Capaldi, who will leave during the Christmas special episode — Jodie Whittaker has been announced as Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord - the first woman to be given the role. — The new Doctor's identity …
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Variety, @bbcbreaking, The Guardian, Hollywood Reporter, @kfcloverleary, Recode, @ghweldon, @parkermolloy, Fortune, Brit + Co, Forbes, Washington Post, Telegraph, The Wrap, Screen Rant, The Verge, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, Nerdist, The Week, Rolling Stone and ABC News
Alexis Levinson / BuzzFeed:
Not all Republican lawmakers like Trump's fracas with the press, with some saying it is distracting from coverage of key issues like tax reform — “I love the media,” said the Freedom Caucus chairman. — Reporting From Washington, DC … You've read a lot about the Republican war on what Donald Trump calls fake news.
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Mediaite, @alexis_levinson, The Washington Journal and @katherinemiller
New York Times:
President Trump was good-humored with reporters on Air Force One for an hour, in stark contrast to how he treats the news media in public — WASHINGTON — The Donald J. Trump who turned up in the press cabin of Air Force One on Wednesday evening, as his plane crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Paris …
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PressThink, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, @justinhendrix and @maggienyt
The Drum:
Interview with Google's Madhav Chinnappa on the goals of the Digital News Initiative, projects like WikiTribune, and natural-language reporting tool Radar — Under fire from several quarters for an array of accusations ranging from monopolistic practices to the dissemination (and even funding) …
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blog.wan-ifra.org
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
How 126 fact-checking organizations in 49 countries use WhatsApp, Facebook Live, Twitter, automation, and forensic tools to find falsehoods and spread truth — This is a report on the fourth Global Fact-Checking Summit, which Michelle Ye Hee Lee of The Fact Checker attended. — MADRID — “Nos encanta la verdad.”
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@timothys and @omidyarnetwork
Marty Kaiser / Poynter:
Interview with Billy Penn's Chris Krewson on managing a news startup: focus on readers and how to solve their problems — This is part of a series of Q and As with leaders at news organizations. I asked leaders to think about the challenges they face in their news organizations and to share guidance and advice.
Discussion:
@kristenhare
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
OMGDigital, a 7-year-old media company for African youth, boasts over 90M monthly views and has raised $1.1M from Kima Ventures, Soma Capital, others — “In the West, Cracked, BuzzFeed, and Mashable had really picked up steam. We couldn't relate to the contents; we didn't get the jokes.
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Press Association EIC Peter Clifton says the news org is not replacing reporters with robots, after being awarded near $1M to develop an automated news project — Press Association editor-in-chief Peter Clifton has said he is “certainly not replacing reporters with robots” …
Columbia Journalism Review:
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris on the value of listening to interviewees and why he thinks it is a bad idea for interviewers to have a list of questions — A great interview is one of the journalist's most powerful tools. It can be informative, entertaining, thoughtful.
Discussion:
Maximum Fun
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Gannett's local news teams are helping USA Today expand the frequency and scale of its VR projects by collaborating on pieces, writing companion articles, more — “We have to remember that not only we as content creators are new to VR, but so is our audience. For a lot of people, it's still very experiential."
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