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Despite the fact that the El Paso shooter's language echoed Trump's, Trump blames the media for contributing “anger and rage that has built up over many years” — - President Donald Trump on Monday accused the media of inciting anger in the US after gunmen killed a combined 29 people in two shootings in Texas and Ohio.
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Journalists must change how they report on mass shootings by shining a light on solutions, insisting on more accountability from officials, and taking a side — Sadly, we in the news media know just how to do it. — When a mass shooting happens, even when it happens twice in a 24-hour period …
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US media outlets normalize racism by publicizing racist ideas presumed to belong to others, whose fears are assumed to be reasonable or at least understandable — Within last week's story of how Ronald Reagan made a racist phone call to Richard Nixon, there was a second story—a parable …
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The Daily Beast, The Daily Beast, @j_zimms and Darrin Camilleri

The Athletic is spending £10M aiming to attract more than 100K in the UK, where it launched Monday; the site has raised more than $90M from investors — The Athletic, the ad-free US sports journalism site that has been hoovering up Britain's top football reporters …
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The Drum and @leegibson6

Knight Foundation donates $1.2M to the Maynard Institute to create a program dedicated to bettering newsroom diversity, starting with a six-month pilot program — In-depth initiative will help newsrooms make structural changes in business models and workplace culture
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Poynter and Maynard Institute

AI-powered news aggregation app SmartNews raises $28M Series E led by Japan Post Capital, valuing the startup at $1.1B and bringing the total raised to $116M — A $28 million financing has made SmartNews, an AI-powered news aggregation app, a unicorn. — Japan Post Capital has led …
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In remembrance of Don Banks, an influential NFL reporter and the “conscience” of the league, who died Sunday at age 56 — INDIANAPOLIS — I wrote the obit for a friend Sunday night in an airport. An airport bar, to be exact, and it seemed right.

Fox Corp. to buy a 67% stake in Credible Labs, a marketplace for consumer-lending info, for $265M and add up to $75M in growth capital over about two years — Deal for Credible, a marketplace for consumer-lending information, is part of Fox's digital strategy
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MediaPost, Ad Age, PR Newswire and @awallenstein

Christian humor site Babylon Bee feuds with Snopes, claiming Snopes went too far in fact-checking satirical stories, which Snopes had suggested deceived readers — The Babylon Bee says Snopes went too far in fact-checking a satirical story. Snopes had suggested the Bee twisted its joke to deceive readers.
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Jezebel, BuzzFeed News and @davidrutz

Profile of Rui Pinto, Der Spiegel's “Football Leaks” source, now jailed in Portugal, who lawyers argue should have the same legal protections as whistleblowers — In 2016, a man who called himself John gave Der Spiegel, a German news magazine, 1.9 terabytes of data, or the equivalent of 500,000 Bibles.

Interview with Pearson CEO John Fallon on the company's pivot from print to renting out cheaper digital textbooks, its upcoming Aida apps to help students, more — The list price for a new copy of Pearson's calculus textbook in hardcover is $277. But the rental market for used print copies …
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@whatthebit, @michellemanafy, @amirmw, @ajayverghese and @pearson

Section 230 of the CDA is the internet's First Amendment; repealing it would hurt online speech and marginalized groups more than it would hurt Big Tech — From Josh Hawley to Kamala Harris, online free speech is under attack. — Imagine, for a moment, the following series of online exchanges.
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