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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
CNN's Brian Stelter Looks Back at How the Media Got It So Wrong on Trump — How exactly did the media get Donald Trump so wrong? Well, today, CNN's Brian Stelter devoted the entirety of Reliable Sources to answering that very question. — And what better way to illustrate the collective failure …
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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Publishers hire platform relationship specialists to coordinate with Facebook, Snapchat — The Rise of the Publishing Platform Specialist — Publications are hiring a point person to coordinate with new platforms like Facebook Instant Articles and Snapchat Discover
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@bendreyfuss, @jeffjarvis, @scottkarp, @jayrosen_nyu, @lauraelizdavis and The Awl
Associated Press:
Al-Jazeera to slash 500 jobs, many in its home of Qatar — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Qatar-based news broadcaster Al-Jazeera says it is slashing around 500 jobs as part of a worldwide workforce reduction. — The network announced the cuts Sunday, saying they are part of a …
Anna M. Phillips / Tampa Bay Times:
Judge in Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker has been reversed on appeal more times than any other judge in her county — Trial judge in Hulk Hogan-Gawker case is most reversed in Pinellas — ST. PETERSBURG — Hulk Hogan has plenty of reasons to celebrate his $140 million win against the website Gawker over its publication of a sex tape.
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Karla Zabludovsky / BuzzFeed:
Two reporters at Mexican newspaper Milenio quit after accusing paper's leadership of caving to government pressure — Uproar In Mexico Over Latest Journalist Scandal — Two reporters have quit a Mexican newspaper after accusing the leadership of caving to government pressure.
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Ed Vulliamy / Guardian:
French journalist Florence Hartmann jailed by war crimes tribunal — Former Le Monde correspondent in Bosnia detained for revealing information about Srebrenica massacre was withheld from international criminal court — The journalist Florence Hartmann, a former correspondent for Le Monde …
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@biellacoleman, @axelletess, @justinraimondo, @amp6, @glynmoody and Agence France-Presse
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Digital news jobs are concentrating in New York and a few other big coastal cities, leading to unrepresentative media — The game of concentration: The Internet is pushing the American news business to New York and the coasts — Editor's note: Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with their new issue — go check it out.
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
CEO Peter Liguori talks about Tribune Media's changes and the February announcement that it's exploring partnerships or a sale — Tribune Chief Discusses Transforming a Mature Media Company — Peter Liguori, the longtime television executive, was appointed the new chief executive …
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@brianstelter
Ben Fox Rubin / CNET:
The New Yorker uses adaptive algorithms in its caption contest, opens voting to everyone — How New Yorker cartoons could teach computers to be funny — The weekly magazine, started in 1925, is using crowdsourcing algorithms for the first time to find the funniest cartoon captions.
Juliet Eilperin / Nieman Reports:
To Stay Relevant, Newsrooms Rethink Campaign Coverage — Public disaffection and candidates' social media strategies force journalists to innovate beyond the horse race — Even in his first big presidential campaign, in a milieu where few people were short on confidence …
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@mgcleve and @niemanfdn
Stephen Lovely / AllFlicks:
Netflix's US Catalog Has Shrunk by More Than 2,500 Titles in Less Than 2.5 Years — It's not your imagination - Netflix's catalog is getting smaller. As competition in the OTT streaming space has increased, Netflix's once-massive selection has decreased. In fact, it has shrunk by a third in less than two and a half years.
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Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Q&A with Ev Williams on Medium's evolution, monetization efforts, Matter's spinoff as an independent studio, and Backchannel's future — How Can Marketers and Publishers Best Use Medium? Ev Williams Shares His Vision — Ahead of Ad Age's Digital Conference, Co-Founder/CEO Talks …
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@mterenzio, @penenberg, @mathewi, Fortune, @penenberg, @penenberg, @penenberg, @marklotto and @mathewi
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with David Axelrod on his new podcast, Trump, and social media — David Axelrod's next act — Don't let David Axelrod's mellow voice fool you: The man is something of a machine. Since 2013, the famed strategist behind President Barack Obama's White House bids has directed …
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