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@NewsDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

The Justice Department said earlier this week that Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a client list. Here's Mother Jones' story from 2020 on what happened when journalist Leland Nally called every number in the disgraced financier's little black book, which has been circulating since 2009, when a former butler tried to sell it to lawyers representing Epstein's victims.

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#JeffreyEpstein#USNews#PamBondi#USCrime#USPolitics
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@Flipboard@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Extremism “is fundamentally a local problem, magnified nationwide," says Dana Coester, founder of nonprofit newsroom 100 Days in Appalachia. “There’s more risk at the local level. You are accessible, you are visible, you are part of the community that you’re covering, and you don’t leave.” Columbia Journalism Review interviewed her and journalists from @TexasObserver, InvestigateWest, and more, about the threats local journalists face from far-right extremists.

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#Journalism#LocalJournalism#Extremism#USNews#Media#MediaIndustry
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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled to keep Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. It's just one more restriction on health care for young trans people; twenty-five states ban hormone replacement therapy and puberty blockers for trans youth and of those, six have made it a felony for medical providers to administer gender-affirming care. @19thnews breaks down what the ruling does and doesn't cover, and how it might affect medical care for trans youth across the U.S.

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#Skrmetti#Tennessee#TransYouth#TransRights#TransRightsAreHumanRights#LGBTQ#USNews
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This year, social media displaced TV and online news websites/apps as the top way Americans get news, according to Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). According to their latest Digital News Report, the change is happening all over the world, but "faster and with more impact" in the United States. Here's more detail and other findings from the research, courtesy of Nieman Lab.

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#News#NewsIndustry#Media#Journalism#USNews