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“The takeover of Halk TV further narrows the availability of news sources critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government in Turkey, which ranks 163rd out of 180 countries, according to the Reporters Without Borders world press freedom index.
Several other major broadcasters, including Habertürk, Bloomberg HT, and Show TV, have been placed under state trusteeship in recent years.” —LO
“Judge Kelly’s ruling doesn’t resolve all of the media companies’ access problems. Though it ensures that the 78 affected journalists from the three newsrooms will be able to enter the White House complex, it does not require Mr. Trump’s aides to honor the companies’ assignments in the coverage pools that monitor the president in tight spaces.” —LO
“With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents unveiled during the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to be the chief executive of Theranos before everything came crashing down.” —LO
The decision “places a single official inside both the office that shapes the military’s message, and the newsroom charged with covering it independently.” —LO
“The arrest comes amid a spike in tensions between Russia and Japan following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s August trip to the Kuril Islands, the Moscow-controlled Pacific archipelago that is claimed by both countries.” —LO
“She always asked the one question nobody else asked, and it just happened to be the most important one,” said Michael Osterholm, the director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. Branswell was a 2011 Nieman Global Health Fellow. —LO
The average base reporter’s salary at a nonprofit news outlet, according to an INN survey of 111 of its members. “This cohort of 111 news organizations had a median annual operating budget of $960,000 and a median age of 10 years.” (Institute for Nonprofit News) —LO
“The service, which launched in the U.S. a year ago, offers subscribers a live news stream separate from CNN’s traditional television channel, alongside on-demand video and unlimited access to its online journalism. It will cost £4.99 a month in the U.K. and C$7.99 in Canada, with plans to expand to other countries next year.”
CNN wouldn’t disclose U.S. subscriber numbers, but “[chairman and CEO Mark Thompson] said the service was performing ahead of internal forecasts.” —LO
The Student News Mapping Project, from the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont, tracks about 1,000 new stories a day from nearly 1,000 college papers across the U.S. and sorts them by topic. More here. —LO
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