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Alastair Reid / First Draft News:
Craig Silverman's new beat aims to leverage BuzzFeed's viral expertise to expose fake news — Almost a year to the day after launching its Canadian edition, BuzzFeed announced this week that it would be closing its Ottawa bureau and re-locating staff to the US.
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T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Reporter's notes submitted to court in Rolling Stone defamation case for UVA rape story show early inconsistencies in claims of the primary source, “Jackie” — Rolling Stone journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely spent five months investigating a shocking claim of a gang rape at a University …
Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:
ComScore: 38% of US smartphone users 25-34 are on Snapchat, 14% of 35 or older, up from 5% and 2% three years ago — An estimated 14% of U.S. smartphone users 35 or older are on messaging app — Paris Zeikos says he noticed a surprising trend on Snapchat.
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Fast Company, @wsjd, Gizmodo, VatorNews, Marketing Land and newstalk.com
Choi Chi-yuk / South China Morning Post:
China's internet censor says online media cannot gather news from social media without approval or publish news without verification — Cyberspace Administration's move comes days after Xu Lin, formerly deputy head of the body, takes on top role — China's powerful internet censorship body …
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Alan White / BuzzFeed:
UK publisher Archant announces The New European, a pop-up paper for British “dismayed by Brexit”, for an initial run of 4 issues — The New European, published 8 July, is described as a “pop-up paper” which took Archant just nine days to conceive and get into newsagents.
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Martha Stewart broadcasts on Facebook Live, testing sponsorships to create revenue — Veteran TV personality has been testing out Facebook's live streaming, which is much cheaper to produce than a TV show — Veteran TV personality Martha Stewart has made more than two dozen Facebook Live episodes since …
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Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Major Political News Outlets Offer Interviews for Sale at DNC and RNC Conventions — For high-rolling special interests looking to make an impression at the presidential conventions next month, one option is to pay a lot of money to a media outlet. Lobbyists for the oil industry, for instance …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Univision reaches out to English-speaking Latinos with a dedicated section of its website — At the Iowa Caucus back in February, Univision political reporter Fernando Peinado posted a video of one of the now infamous tiebreaker coin tosses with a Spanish caption:
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@raju
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The Mother Jones prison investigation shows how undercover reporting can work, with extreme care in some cases — Undercover reporting is the James Dean of journalism: thrilling, but dangerous. — Nellie Bly did it in 1887 when she checked herself into an insane asylum and emerged with stories of beatings and neglect.
Discussion:
@monikabauerlein and @prison_health
New York Times:
At least 164 staffers have left Polish state broadcasting and audiences have declined at all state TV channels since January media controls went into effect — WARSAW, Poland — The ax fell for Piotr Maslak just 12 days into the new year, when his new boss at Poland's state television told …
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@mirekvoice07 and @kenroth
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Gawker Media built a tool to push top 10 comment threads to Facebook Instant Articles and AMP — For many publishers, comments are an important way to create reader engagement. There are few places where that's more true than Gawker Media, where co-founder Nick Denton has made commenting …
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@nicknotned and @digiday
Columbia Journalism Review:
Study: readers across political spectrum are likely to trust long narrative stories regardless of outlet — NO SELF-RESPECTING LIBERAL would trust anything written on Breitbart, and every self-respecting conservative knows that The New York Times is a liberal rag controlled by people with New York values.
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