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MSNBC and Melissa Harris-Perry confirm they are parting ways, in talks about an exit deal — Melissa Harris-Perry is out at MSNBC — Melissa Harris-Perry will not be back on MSNBC. — On Sunday morning, two days after the host's private fight with management went public …
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Melissa Harris-Perry refuses to host her MSNBC show Saturday after weeks of preemptions and what she calls loss of editorial control — Melissa Harris-Perry Walks Off Her MSNBC Show After Pre-Emptions — Melissa Harris-Perry said she was refusing to go on the MSNBC show she hosts this Saturday …
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Melissa Harris-Perry's email to staffers of her show: I love our show. I want it back. — Melissa Harris-Perry's Email to Her #nerdland Staff — On Friday afternoon, media reports emerged about my friend Melissa Harris-Perry's refusal to host her eponymous weekend program on MSNBC on Saturday.
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Trump retweeted a Gawker bot that tweeted Mussolini quotes and attributed them to Trump — How We Fooled Donald Trump Into Retweeting Benito Mussolini — Is Donald Trump a fascist? Experts, historians, and pundits have debated the question for months. One thing has been certain for a while now: He tweets like one.
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Chris Hughes sells New Republic to Win McCormack, founder of Tin House; Hamilton Fish named publisher — Chris Hughes Sells New Republic to Liberal Publisher Win McCormack — Mr. McCormack, founder of Tin House literary quarterly, names Hamilton Fish as publisher — Welcome to a new New Republic.
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Trump says he'll change US libel laws to make it easier to sue news organizations — Donald Trump: We're going to ‘open up’ libel laws — Donald Trump said on Friday he plans to change libel laws in the United States so that he can have an easier time suing news organizations.
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Columnists at the New York Times have become brands more than writers, dispensing rhetoric without responsibility, turning the job into a mockery — Purge The New York Times op-ed page — The paper of record has let its opinion columns degrade into self-parody
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Inside the US government's effort to enlist tech and media into the fight against ISIS, where lack of trust and a dearth of Arab voices stymie concrete steps — Inside The Obama Administration's Attempt To Bring Tech Companies Into The Fight Against ISIS — WASHINGTON, D.C. …
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An amendment in the FAA's budget reauthorization bill could allow journalists and others to use drone cameras with fewer rules — Why journalists interested in drones should be watching an FAA reauthorization bill — Chances are good you haven't been following the day-to-day workings of the House Transportation Committee.
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How SB Nation, structured to gain prestige from longform writing with minimal editing costs, published the flawed Holtzclaw profile despite editor's warning — How SB Nation Published Their Daniel Holtzclaw Story — Last week, Vox Media's SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?” …


As Al Jazeera America's online operation ends, a look at its approach to journalism, its challenges, and successes — The way news should be done — Though it too shall pass, Al Jazeera America was a model of the journalism the country desperately needs — Great journalism doesn't always draw a big audience.
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AJAM reported on tribal communities and offered coverage on Indian Country that few could match
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Two-year-old FiveThirtyEight has seen traffic and headcount increase, claims full backing of ESPN, and is expanding coverage to science, health, and e-sports — ESPN's FiveThirtyEight: 'We won't go the way of Grantland' — When ESPN turned out the lights on Grantland last fall …
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Interview with Mark Coatney, formerly with Tumblr, Al Jazeera America, and WaPo, on legacy media, Yahoo cuts, and what is and isn't working in digital media — On the Red Couch with Digital Media Consultant Mark Coatney — Nine years ago, Tumblr was born.