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The New Republic has taken down an article by Dale Peck about Pete Buttigieg that included speculation about his sex life and repeatedly called him “Mary Pete” — The New Republic published and then deleted an opinion article on Friday that offered shocking and incendiary commentary …
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Gizmodo says The New Republic is withdrawing from a September climate change forum after some partners leave in response to TNR's offensive Pete Buttigieg post — On Friday, The New Republic published an an offensive, homophobic attack on Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg.
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After the leak of UK ambassador's Trump memo, police warn media they may violate the law if further docs leak, provoking anger among journalists, politicians — LONDON (Reuters) - Senior British politicians, including both contenders to be the next prime minister, joined journalists on Saturday …
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Weeks after reporting leaks about a key member of Brazil's far-right government, Glenn Greenwald has become the focus of Brazil's press freedom debate — RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Several weeks after publishing explosive reports about a key member of Brazil's far-right government …
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How magazines like A Magazine, Banana, Giant Robot, and others helped shape Asian American identity — One day in the summer of 2001, when I was fifteen, I sat at the kitchen counter of my family's home, flipping through magazines. If my parents had been subscribers to Vanity Fair …
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A look at how an LAT story on efforts to revive a Native American language came together using a central character, a visual poem, and an interactive map — The story on the Tongva language was part of the revived Column One feature in The Los Angeles Times.
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@seangreene89, @niemanfdn and @tcurwen


Sources: China's government is in talks to take a minority stake with super voting power in financial news aggregator wallstreet.cn, which it suspended in June — China's internet regulator is in talks to take up a stake in wallstreet.cn, whose financial news aggregation service …
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@alecolarizi and @sunchartist


StreamElements: Twitch viewers live streamed 2.72B+ hours in Q2, compared with 735.54M hours on YouTube Live, 197.76M on Facebook Gaming, and 112.29M on Mixer — Twitch continues to lead rivals including YouTube Live, Facebook Gaming, and Microsoft's Mixer when it comes to live streaming video.


Billboard to partner with concert discovery site Bandsintown, which has 130M MAU, to embed tour dates of artists and links to buy tickets in Billboard articles — Billboard has announced a multifacted partnership with concert discovery site Bandsintown to power a global tour date catalog …
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Less than a year after TikTok's US launch, the popularity of its stars at VidCon shows that it's poised to dominate the American social media landscape — Anaheim, Calif.—Last night, YouTube hosted its annual VidCon party, in one of the Anaheim Convention Center's large halls …
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Media coverage of immigrant raids act as highlight reels for Trump; journalists must frame them as campaign events that claim lives as collateral damage — You can predict the scene already: a half dozen TV news crews surround a mother and her two children in one of the largest cities in America.


The Purple Project for Democracy, a media and education campaign set for November, seeks to rekindle faith in American democracy with the help of journalists — “Don't be part of the story.” Fuck that. — Whether to put down your notebook or camera to come to the aid of a news subject …
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