A well-known security blogger revealed the name of one her sources to the FBI – unsolicited. It’s something most wouldn’t do without court order, and still, there are reporters who will go to jail to protect their sources. So, why did Marcy Wheeler do it?
Marcy Wheeler: “Putting a face (mine) to the risks posed by GOP games on Mueller investigation”
Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: “A journalist’s conscience leads her to reveal her source to the FBI. Here’s why.”
Trump & the NATO Summit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b8U-i6FN6g
The New York Times: “Trump says Germany is ‘Captive’ to Russia: Live NATO Updates”
Liza Hearon, Huffington Post: “Trump kicks off NATO summit with breakfast rant: ‘Germany is a captive of Russia’”
Dana Milbank, Washington Post: “Believe it or not, Trump just told the truth”
David Bossie, Fox News: “At the NATO Summit, Trump is standing up for fair treatment for America”
Editorial, The Guardian: “The Guardian view on the NATO summit: Europe must come together”
Christoph Scheurmann, Der Spiegel: “’I’m an optimist who worries a lot”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaITWQyVH_k
Der Spiegel: “NATO prepares for a Trumper Tantrum”
Molly K. McKew, Politico: “’They will die in Tallinn’: Estonia girds for war with Russia”
Kavanaugh tapped for the Supreme Court
Mark Landler & Maggie Haberman, New York Times: “Brett Kavanaugh is Trump’s pick for Supreme Court”
Robert Costa, Robert Barnes & Felicia Sonmez, Washington Post: “Brett Kavanaugh is nominated by Trump to succeed Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy”
Christopher Cadelago, Politico: “Trump aides have prepped rollouts for multiple Supreme Court nominees”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: "Just what is an NBC News reporter saying about Trump and Justice Kennedy?"
WhatsApp’s role in India’s deadly riots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=YegEun8lzZ4
Matthew Ingram, Columbia Journalism Review: “India tells WhatsApp to stop the deadly rumor mill, somehow”
Rachel England, Engadget: “Facebook uses newspaper ads to warn WhatsApp users about fake news”
Pranav Dixit, BuzzFeed: “WhatsApp just told India’s government that it cannot fight misinformation alone”
Diya Ghosh, Medianama: “WhatsApp responds to MEITY; Full text”
Nikhil Pahwa, Medianama: “Addressing WhatsApp’s fake news problems”
Sankalp Phartiyal, Reuters: “India asks WhatsApp to curb spread of false messages”
Swati Gupta & Bard Wilkinson, CNN: “WhatsApp India: Five lynched after online child kidnap rumors”
Matthew Ingram, Columbia Journalism Review: “Rumors spread via WhatsApp lead to more deaths in India”
Abhimanyu Ghoshal, The Next Web: “India must blame itself, not WhatsApp, for its devastating lynching spree”
Mark Frankel, Nieman Lab: “The promises and pitfalls of reporting within chat apps and other semi-open platforms: A jouranlist’s guide”
Paying the Trumps for photos
Andrew W. Lehren, Emily R. Siegel & Merritt Enright, NBC: “News media paid Melania Trump thousands for use of photos in ‘positive stories only’”
Simon Dumenco & Erik Basil Spooner, AdAge: “Hey, media, here are 9 photos of Melania Trump you don’t have to pay her to use”
Covering the Fireworks War
KMIZ: “KMIZ accountable for news crew’s conduct”
Sara Maslar-Donar, KMIZ: “’CoMo Fireworks War’ goes off in Boone County”
Blake Sammann, KOMU: “Columbia residents carry on the tradition of fireworks wars”
Jasmine Ramirez, KMIZ: “Aftermath of ‘CoMo Fireworks War’”
Emily Aiken & Cary Littlejohn, Columbia Missourian: “Proposal to create official ‘Fireworks War 2019’ sent to county commissioners”
Raising the curtain on ‘Tomorrow, Inshallah’”
David Beard, Poynter: “Journalists see their work adapted for the stage: Can it help break prejudice?”
Christopher Mathias & Rowaida Abedelaziz, Huffington Post: “Islamophobia”
Jo Confino, Huffington Post: “HuffPost collaborates with StoryWorks on a new documentary theater project, ‘Tomorrow, Inshallah’”
Kristen Hare, Poynter: “With StoryWorks, Center for Investigative Reporting’s stories take center stage”
‘American Idiot’ tops the charts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Ee_uujKuJMI
Katie Rife, A/V Club: “God bless The Washington Post, which cited ClickHole in a story about Green Day”
Megh Wright, Vulture: “The Washington Post is mistaking ClickHole for real news is a thing of beauty”
Cale Guthrie Weissman, Fast Company: “The Washington Post fell for a fake op-ed saying Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ is about George W. Bush”
Meagan Flynn, Washington Post: “In honor of Trump’s visit, Brits launch campaign to lift ‘American Idiot’ to top of the charts
