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Noah Kulwin / New York Magazine:
Ex-Reddit product head Dan McComas talks about how site's focus on growth at all costs hurt the health of the community and why Reddit won't be able to change — Reddit started a couple of years after Facebook, and it's super giant, and the kind of thing that you were present for was the challenge …
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The A.V. Club, @hardmaru and @galwaygrrl, more at Techmeme »
CBS News:
Donald Trump says US will get to the bottom of the Jamal Khashoggi case and that there will be “severe punishment” if the missing Saudi journalist was murdered — President Trump tells 60 Minutes Saudi Arabia has denied playing a part in the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, but says the case is being investigated.
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Kara Swisher / Slate:
Kara Swisher writes about the bosses and mentors she has had, confidence in her own talents, honesty, and being a boss herself — Executive Time is Slate's pop-up blog about bosses. This as-told-to essay has been transcribed and edited for clarity from a conversation with Laura Bennett.
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@ggreenwald
Amy Mackinnon / Foreign Policy:
Research by Transparency International finds that since 2012, nine out of 10 murdered journalists were killed in countries deemed highly corrupt — More journalists are assassinated than die in war zones. — Viktoria Marinova was not a war correspondent.
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New York Times, @pressfreedom, @foreignpolicy, @ericscherer, @foreignpolicy and Washington Post
Rossalyn Warren / WIRED UK:
Egyptian law enforcement is using the country's new law against “fake news” to imprison women who share their sexual harassment experiences on social platforms — Social media accelerated Egypt's revolution. Now those same services have become a tool of control for a repressive regime
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@leiyla08, @fabiochiusi and Techdirt, more at Techmeme »
Travis Fox / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the growth of drone journalism and the federal and local regulatory hurdles that journalists face — Josh Haner flies a drone on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Photo: Gavin A. Sundwall, courtesty of The New York Times. — The images, taken by photographer Josh Haner from about 135 feet above …
Poynter:
Study of online local news outlets: 96% of thriving outlets were in communities whose businesses could buy ads and readers had extra income to subscribe — This piece was co-published with the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. — More than a decade into the rise …
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@centercoopmedia, @journoprof and @broadstreetads
University of Michigan News:
University of Michigan has developed a tool that monitors the prevalence of fake news on social media and assigns it a value called the Iffy Quotient — ANN ARBOR—As the crucial mid-term election approaches, the University of Michigan Center for Social Media Responsibility offers media …
New York Times:
A look at Peter Rice's 30-year career at Fox as he begins work as chairman of Walt Disney Television, responsible for both Disney and Fox TV programming — Hollywood executives are not so different from the stars they employ. They want to be seen in the right booths at the right restaurants.
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@jimwindolf
Dan Christensen / Florida Bulldog:
Newspaper sales across Florida are eroding faster than the national average: between 2016 and 2017, print sales fell 10.5% nationally versus 13.9% in the state — 'Tis the season...for newspapers to file their annual forms with the U.S. Postal Service disclosing how many copies they sold over the last 12 months.
Graeme McMillan / Hollywood Reporter:
Chuck Wendig, who wrote the Star Wars: Aftermath series, says Marvel Entertainment has fired him because “of the negativity and vulgarity” in his tweets — Chuck Wendig says he was removed from the ‘Shadow of Vader’ series with two issues left unwritten over the “negativity and vulgarity” his tweets bring.
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Chuck Wendig, IndieWire, @feliciaday, @jwhdavison, @rob_sheridan, @spacekatgal, @scalzi, @robinhobb, @chuckwendig, RT, @justinaireland, /Film, The Verge and Polygon
Ronan Shields / Adweek:
The Guardian and ad-tech company the Rubicon Project settle legal dispute over transaction fees that ad buyers are charged, which Rubicon has now dropped — Terms not disclosed, but agreement ‘does not assign any liability to either party’ — Rubicon Project and U.K. news title The Guardian …
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Wall Street Journal and Rubicon Project
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