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Ellie Bufkin / Washington Examiner:
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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Maddie Stone / Gizmodo:
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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Michael Holden / Reuters:
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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Anna Jean Kaiser / Associated Press:
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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Camille Bromley / Columbia Journalism Review:
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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Jacqui Banaszynski / Storyboard Posts Archive:
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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South China Morning Post:
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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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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:
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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Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
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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Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
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.
Bob Garfield / Columbia Journalism Review:
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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