'Boycott Amazon': Saudi anger over Washington Post coverage
Saudis who are angry at The Washington Post's coverage of the kingdom in the aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi's murder are calling for a boycott of Amazon.com
Protect public trust by auditing elections: It’s easier than you might think The Hill. Don’t like the Russia, Russia, Russia framing. And I have a far better idea: handmarked paper ballots, hand counted in public. What’s so difficult about that?
Russell Crowe opens up about terrifying encounter with 'hitmen'
ABC exclusive – corrupt cop breaks his silence over missing teenager Mediaweek
Absolute power of NSW Crime Commission unveiled
'Unacceptable': Telstra outage sees state loses track of more than 770 offenders
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full investigation has been ordered after a Telstra hardware failure
sparked the complete breakdown of South Australia's electronic
monitoring system for 774 people on parole or home detention bail.
The Palace and the Storm The Baffler
Mystery Goldman Exec at 1MDB Meeting Signals New Woes for Bank Bloomberg
N.J. Transit Commute Mess: ‘A Level of Incompetence I’ve Never Quite Seen Before’ NYT
Amazon is hiring fewer workers this holiday season, a sign that robots are replacing them Quartz
Two Workers Are Dead After Partial Building Collapse at Amazon’s Baltimore Warehouse Gizmodo (The Rev Kev) And see from earlier this year, Amazon And Tesla Facilities Named Among The Most Dangerous Workplaces In America Gizmodo
If Jeff Bezos Makes Washington the Second Headquarters of Amazon New Yorker. Show of hands: who believes this whole exercise wasn’t rigged for this result from the beginning?
The Palace and the Storm The Baffler
Mystery Goldman Exec at 1MDB Meeting Signals New Woes for Bank Bloomberg
N.J. Transit Commute Mess: ‘A Level of Incompetence I’ve Never Quite Seen Before’ NYT
Amazon is hiring fewer workers this holiday season, a sign that robots are replacing them Quartz
Two Workers Are Dead After Partial Building Collapse at Amazon’s Baltimore Warehouse Gizmodo (The Rev Kev) And see from earlier this year, Amazon And Tesla Facilities Named Among The Most Dangerous Workplaces In America Gizmodo
If Jeff Bezos Makes Washington the Second Headquarters of Amazon New Yorker. Show of hands: who believes this whole exercise wasn’t rigged for this result from the beginning?
REACHING READERS WHERE THEY ARE: That’s why a local
news site in Brooklyn is starting a newspaper. You read that right. Publisher Liena Zagare
also offers tips for those unaccustomed to this type of product, answering questions
like: “What do I do with this thing when I’m done with it?” (h/t Joseph Lichterman)
QUOTE: “What I’ve learned from organizations that work most
effectively is very clear communication; clear guidance about where the
organization or the department is going. Share information, give
clear direction.” — Vivian Schiller, CEO of Civil Foundation, to Poynter’s
Barbara Allen.
JOURNALISM WHILE BROWN: Why did Sonny Dhillon walk away from
The Globe and Mail? He wondered about racial bias in the newsroom with this Poynter piece; he crystallized his thinking in an assignment
that switched from a race to a gender angle at the last minute, without his
input.
SHUT UP AND DRIBBLE: Jemele Hill anchors Showtime’s three-hour documentary look at how the NBA has
been able to be a mirror on contemporary society, unlike the conformist,
conservative NFL. Hill tells the L.A. Times’ Chris Barton that it always wasn’t
that way — and she wonders how tolerant NBA leadership would be today if its
best player, LeBron James (who produced the doc), wasn’t so outspoken. The
title comes from Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, who infamously tried to shush James,
telling him to “shut up and dribble.”
$10 MILLION: That's what the University of North Carolina got in a grant to
build a state-of-the-art facility and offer immersive experiences for
its School of Media and Journalism students. The gift comes from the
Curtis Foundation. Don Curtis, an alum, is CEO of the Curtis Media Group, which owns 62 radio
signals across the state and operates the North Carolina News Network.
MOVES: Fernando Díaz is returning to Chicago, leaving as ME-Digital
of the San Francisco Chronicle to become editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter (h/t Veronica Villafañe)
… AP’s Ken Thomas is leaving the news service to cover 2020 and the Democrats
for The Wall Street Journal … The Atlantic has named Don Peck and Denise Wills
as top editor and deputy editor of the magazine. Scott Stoessel will move to
national editor and resume writing.
FOUR NEW COLUMNISTS: The Guardian hired Moira Donegan on feminism, politics,
society and culture; David Sirota on politics and corporate America; Rebecca
Solnit on politics, gender and society; and Bhaskar Sunkara on U.S. politics
and culture.