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6:35 PM ET, September 15, 2018

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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Q&A with New York Review of Books Editor Ian Buruma who defends running Jian Ghomeshi's piece and why the allegations against Ghomeshi aren't Buruma's “concern”  —  Well before the world associated the phrase #MeToo with sexual assault, Jian Ghomeshi was a popular Canadian radio host and musician.
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Frida Garza / Jezebel:
The New York Review of Books publishes a story by former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi on his experience being accused and controversially acquitted of sexual assault  —  On Friday, the New York Review of Books published “Reflections on a Hashtag,” the cover story for its October print issue …
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Brian Barrett / Wired:
A look at The Weather Channel's “green screen immersive studio”, which allows it to bring extreme weather to life through immersive demonstrations  —  AT A CERTAIN point, you think you have a good grasp of what to expect from weather graphics.  A color-coded map, a five-day forecast with a sassy cloud.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Jemele Hill, who drew criticism when she called Trump a white supremacist on Twitter in 2017, confirms she is leaving ESPN  —  Jemele Hill, the outspoken sports journalist and commentator who took sparked a massive controversy for the Walt Disney-owned cable network when she called President Donald Trump a …
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Transcript of conversation between Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Jay Rosen: on news, impartiality, abuse, misinformation, bad actors, and hiring an ombudsman  —  Dorsey says “we have definitely been gamed” by bad-faith actors and doesn't expect that Twitter will ever build a “perfect antidote.”
Amanda Whiting / Washingtonian:
A look at Cenk Uygur's path from conservative to creator of the Young Turks, where his pugnacious style is a protest against the “civility” of cable news shows  —  Establishment liberals mourn bipartisanship.  The Young Turks host thinks Washington is still too chummy.
Sonia Elks / Reuters:
IWMF and TrollBusters survey of ~600 female journalists: two-thirds face online harassment or threats, nine in ten see a rise in physical and online abuse  —  LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female journalists are facing a “relentless” barrage of attacks and harassment …
Discussion: @clancyreports
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
By handing off power of fact-checking to third parties and providing no guidance, Facebook opens the door to battles like ThinkProgress vs The Weekly Standard  —  ThinkProgress vs. The Weekly Standard.  Here's a mini-saga that encompasses many of the things we argue about now.
 
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Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:
Tencent-backed content aggregator Qutoutiao closes up 128% after raising $84M in its IPO, the biggest first-day increase of a significant US IPO in 2018
Max Mason / Financial Review:
Sources: News Corp is cutting about 30 editorial jobs across its Australian titles, including The Australian, the Herald Sun, and The Daily Telegraph
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Lars Brandle / Billboard:
A trade group for Australian music labels says total music sales rose 6% to A$195.6M in 2018's first half, with the digital sector rising 14.2% to A$162.5M
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Abusive media moguls shaped a misogynistic culture with damage far beyond specific cases of sexual harassment
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Snapchat enlists 20 news partners including CNN and NBC to create Curated Our Stories, or curated stories with user-generated content in the Discover section
 

 
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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that can create a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Google says it will consolidate teams that focus on building AI models across Research and DeepMind, and move its Responsible AI teams from Research to DeepMind

 
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