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1. Twitter Permanently Suspends Conservative Writer Milo Yiannopoulos (Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News)
2. A Laid-Off TV Reporter in a Culver City Starbucks First Uncovered Borrowed Passages in Melania Trump’s Speech (Brittny Mejia / The Los Angeles Times)
3. Is Twitter Letting Everyone Be Verified or Just Making It Easier for Its Staff to Go to Parties in Peace? (Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab)
4. How Do You Handle Waves of Terrible News? The Wall Street Journal’s Graphics Team Has a Plan (Benjamin Mullin / Poynter)
5. Beyond Native: How the New York Times Plans to Turn T Brand Studio Into a Full-Fledged Agency (Lucia Moses / Digiday)
6. Here Are 6 Reasons Why Newspapers Have Dropped Their Paywalls (Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab)