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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
EPA accuses AP reporter of “incredibly misleading story” that said staff were not present at Houston's flooded toxic waste sites yet confirms story's key points — The agency accused the reporter of an ‘incredibly misleading story’ about its Harvey response ‘from the comfort of Washington.’
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Journalists should report on beliefs, scope, and scale of antifa and challenge politically motivated efforts to create false equivalency with white supremacists — Counterprotesters in Charlottesville tear a Confederate flag during a white-nationalist rally Aug. 12.
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The Outline, The Daily Californian, @sulliview, @dangillmor, bookforum.com, Vox and The Atlantic
tronc, inc.:
Tronc acquires outstanding interests of Daily News LP, owner of New York Daily News and NYDailyNews.com — Expands tronc Presence as Provider of Award-Winning Content Across Ten Major U.S. Media Markets — Combined Digital Platform Has Over 80 Million Unique Monthly Visitors
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CNNMoney, New York Times, The Wrap, Variety, New York Post, @jeremymbarr, @brianstelter, @_zakali and @pkafka
Manish Singh / NDTV Gadgets 360:
Facebook bid $600M for online streaming rights of a popular cricket tournament in India for 5 years but was outbid by Star India — As Facebook gets serious about video, the social giant's ambitions for live streaming were on display on Monday in India where it put a bid north of $600 million …
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@ipl, Recode and The Drum, more at Techmeme »
Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC:
SEC: Roku files for up to $100M IPO; Roku had $399M revenue in fiscal 2016, up 25% from 2015 — Streaming device company Roku filed for a public offering on Friday, looking to raise up to $100 million. — The stock will list on the Nasdaq under the symbol “ROKU.”
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Alex Thompson / VICE News:
How podcasts like Pod Save America, fueled by a feverish distaste for Donald Trump, are becoming the left's right-wing talk radio — Left-wing talk radio is here. But it's not on the radio. — Fueled by a feverish distaste for Donald Trump and a distrust of mainstream media …
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@mccarthyryanj, @tonyromm and @shadowingtrump
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Popular YouTube ripping site, YouTube-MP3, settles with RIAA and will shut down indefinitely — YouTube-MP3, the world's leading YouTube ripping site, has agreed to shut down indefinitely and hand over its domain to the RIAA. A private settlement agreement, including an undisclosed payment …
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BetaNews, Engadget, The Next Web, The Verge, MacRumors, Inquirer and The Independent, more at Techmeme »
Violet Blue / Engadget:
Tests show phrases like “I am a gay black woman” deemed “toxic” by Google Jigsaw's Perspective AI tool used by some publishers to weed out abusive comments — A recent, sprawling Wired feature outlined the results of its analysis on toxicity in online commenters across the United States.
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@mr_trout, @paulbernaluk, @elronxenu and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
Richard C. Paddock / New York Times:
The Cambodia Daily is to close after 24 years, after the country's government demanded it pay a $6.3M tax bill; the paper says the bill is inflated — PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — For the reporters and editors of The Cambodia Daily, an independent newspaper, Sunday was the end of an era …
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@mollyesque, France 24 and NPR
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Hillary Frey, the head of strategy for HuffPost who conceived of and is overseeing the company's Listen to America tour — “If we're going to put new reporters in different regions, strategically where should they be? What will they be covering? What matters to these communities?"
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@aravosis
Jack Shafer / Politico:
The history of The New York Times' op-ed page shows it was created to make readers think: going too far is better than not going far enough — Who wants the opinion pages to turn into the agreement pages? — In recent months, New York Times readers brave enough to open the paper's op-ed pages …
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@samhwils, @rsbutner, @enckj, @monaeltahawy, @riotglasses, @connieschultz, @carloslozadawp, @billhutt1, @lukeoneil47, @jaywillis, @sarischaff, @samuelmoyn, @pjneal, @anniea_916, @jbfeig, @greggvt, @stevekrak and @monaeltahawy
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Melanie Sill / Poynter Online:
Ideas for sustained Texas reporting after the crisis: collaborations, philanthropic support for journalism, fellowships, perhaps a pop-up newsroom — The body of the article goes here.
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@melaniesill, @mollydeaguiar, @spj_tweets and @texaspress
Dave Zeitlin / The Pennsylvania Gazette:
Profile of Washington Post White House reporter Ashley Parker, whose deeply sourced stories have made her a well-known figure in the political world — Ashley Parker C'05 sometimes wonders if Twitter is rotting her brain, especially when it hits her first thing in the morning.
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@killoughcnn, @davezeitlin, @pink_funk and @oliverdarcy
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