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Cindy Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Judge orders LA Times to remove details from a story about a sealed plea agreement made public by mistake on PACER; LAT does so but plans to contest order — A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Los Angeles Times to remove information from an article that described a plea agreement between prosecutors …
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Profile of UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, who gave Facebook a £500K fine over Cambridge Analytica and is investigating data misuse during Brexit — With the publication of an interim report on her investigation into the Brexit referendum, the information commissioner …
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@jason_kint, @blogsofwar, @ideagov, @carolecadwalla, @jason_kint, @peterjukes, @cybersal, @peterjukes, @chrisinsilico, @aallan, @karolcummins, @geektrader and @jason_kint
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
White House cancels CNN interview with National Security Adviser John Bolton after interaction between Trump and CNN's Jim Acosta at UK press conference — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday that the White House decided to cancel an interview between CNN …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Trump anointed Fox News as state TV with his favoritism of a Fox News reporter and baseless insults of NBC and CNN during a UK news conference
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Contemptor, AOL, @laurenduca, @chriscuomo, @brianklaas, HuffPost, @erikwemple, @insanityreport, @walshfreedom, The Daily Beast, The Wrap, Mediaite, @brianstelter, @grynbaum and CNNMoney
Pew Research Center:
Overview of public databases and studies details continued growth of online radio and podcasting, shows that audience and economics of AM/FM radio remain steady — MORE FACT SHEETS: STATE OF THE NEWS MEDIA — The audio news sector in the United States is split by modes of delivery …
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Pew Research Center, @pewjournalism, @pewjournalism, @pewjournalism and 9to5Mac
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
China Internet Report: Tencent News and Toutiao have the most monthly active users among news apps, with an average user spending 73 minutes per day on Toutiao — Internet penetration in China is at around just under 56 percent, according to a report released this year by the Chinese internet …
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500 Startups, @niemanlab, @niemanlab and South China Morning Post
Judd Slivka / Nieman Lab:
A proposed law would make it a civil offense to fly drones over private property below 200 feet without permission, even if newsworthy events are occurring — Imagine if a news photographer at a football game had to get permission from every single person in the stadium before taking a single shot …
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@nppalawyer, @newyorkcommuter, @dougfisher, @spj_tweets and @niemanlab
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired:
ThinkProgress founder and EIC Judd Legum explains why he is leaving his current job to launch a paid political newsletter Popular Information — ONE OF THE few things people agree on in 2018 is that the news industry is broken. The old business models don't work.
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@jayrosen_nyu, @tomwatson, @juddlegum and @bypatrickgeorge
Adrianne Jeffries / New York Times:
Study of 23,005 YouTube video comments about science and related topics: ~14% of comments for female-hosted videos were critical vs. ~6% for male-hosted videos — After studying 23,005 comments left on videos about science and related topics, a researcher says, “I could see why people would not want to be on YouTube.”
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@athenedonald and Boing Boing
Michelle Ferrier / Columbia Journalism Review:
Inside the Media Deserts Project, which maps daily media in its various formats and regulations affecting local news by zip code — Image via Media Deserts Project. — The New York Times earlier this year profiled a resident of rural Athens County, Ohio.
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@spj_tweets and @dmedialab
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Billboard CEO John Amato was forced to resign after sexual harassment and other misconduct complaints by several employees against him personally — The CEO of Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter was pushed out earlier this week after a private internal investigation raised concerns …
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@johndoe78359022, @maxwelltani, @justinjm1 and Variety
Charles Bethea / New Yorker:
Interview with Chase Cook, the Capital Gazette reporter who volunteered to cover the trial of the suspected killer of five of Cook's colleagues — On Thursday, Chase Cook sat down at a coffee shop in Annapolis, Maryland, near the temporary new home of the Capital Gazette newspaper group, where he's worked as a reporter since 2014.
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Andrew Tran, @tobin_tweets, @rebeccamorin_, @ellisonbarber and @charlesbethea
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Following the latest Mueller indictments, Twitter bans DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 accounts, says it is reviewing company policies and expects to make updates soon — The US' indictment of Russian officers over the DNC hacks is having an effect... at least, on Twitter.
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@parkermolloy, @spytalker, @gregjaffe, @jimrutenberg and CNBC, more at Techmeme »
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook should quarantine Infowars and similar outlets instead of deleting their pages to avoid making people like Alex Jones into martyrs, prompting backlash — Quarantine instead, or it'll be ‘but her emails!’ 2.0 — Alex Jones' Infowars is a fake-news peddler.
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@pt, @mtomlin68, @thedextriarchy, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, BGR, Vanity Fair, Engadget, @joshconstine, @rjcc, @randallb and Beyond Search, more at Techmeme »
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