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Trump's new rhetorical attack, accusing the NYT of “a virtual act of treason”, crosses a dangerous line in his campaign against a free and independent press — The Founders considered it the gravest of crimes. Tossing the charge around is irresponsible and wrong.
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Twitter disabling location data for tweets is a win for privacy but a loss for journalists, researchers as it helped find eyewitnesses and track disinformation — When Twitter wants to announce a change in how it does things, how should they announce it? With a tweet, naturally …
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VICE, @wexler, @stuartathompson, @firstdraftnews, @elanazak, The Verge, Engadget, The Daily Dot, 9to5Mac, Fast Company and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »


Fuse Media to exit Chapter 11 in the coming weeks after a federal court approves its bankruptcy exit plan, which includes reducing debt by ~$200M — Court approves exit plan, programmer says will emerge in the ‘coming weeks’ — Latino and multicultural youth-oriented programmer Fuse Media …
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The Epoch Times publisher defends the outlet from questions by NBC reporters, says they were asking about Trump coverage, ties to Falun Gong, and staffing — Last week, we were contacted by two NBC reporters who posed a series of highly inappropriate questions.
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@jj_mccullough, @stephenepoch and @maxwelltani


WGA stops negotiations with the Association of Talent Agents, in favor of individual talks with top nine agencies as it seeks a ban on packaging fees for agents — The Writers Guild of America has called off negotiations with the Association of Talent Agents in favor of pursuing individual talks …
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Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times and The Wrap


Three-year-old French news site Les Jours serializes the news, breaking long-form investigative stories down into accessible, nail-biting episodes — “Serial” isn't just a podcast: It's also the format hook Les Jours uses to bring some of the lessons of drama to long-form investigative reporting.


News sites across the political spectrum, from the Daily Caller to AlterNet, form the Digital News Alliance, an ad network to target politically engaged readers — Digital News Alliance combines left-leaning, conservative and centrist publishers — Political advertising makes strange bedfellows.
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Nieman Lab, Mediaite, The Wrap, @karenmcgrane, The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon


Film and television critics associations form a coalition, Critics Groups for Equality in Media, to foster greater diversity in entertainment journalism — A coalition of film and television critics associations are teaming up help foster greater diversity in entertainment journalism.
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AwardsCircuit.com and Los Angeles Times


A former New York Observer EIC describes the experience of working under Jared Kushner as the newspaper's fortunes dwindled, partially due to Kushner's neglect — What I learned about power, real and imagined, from Trump's ‘senior adviser’ and son-in-law — you want to understand Jared Kushner …
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@plettre and @aarongell


Instead of moving kids content to YouTube Kids, where existing problems could be replicated, YouTube Kids should invest in curation and product development — Facing mounting pressure over failures to protect children from inappropriate content, Google is reportedly considering a number of changes to its video sharing site YouTube.
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Vanity Fair, Tubefilter and MediaNama, more at Techmeme »


How the ongoing formation of the podcast industry could affect the digital audiobook industry, as Audible and Spotify likely look to compete in both forms — There's no news peg to this piece, other than the fact it's based off a keynote I gave earlier this month at the Audiobook Publishers Association Conference in New York.


UN report: Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated for the extrajudicial murder of Jamal Khashoggi for which there is “credible evidence” he is liable — Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated over journalist's murder, says report — The crown prince of Saudi Arabia …
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