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Alex Koppelman / CNNMoney:
AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll defends the news wire's story about meetings Clinton took as secretary of state, says tweet was “sloppy” — Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll is defending her organization's controversial investigation into meetings Hillary Clinton took …
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@brianstelter, The Huffington Post, @apdiplowriter, Media Matters for America, @eshap, @taylorpopielarz, @johnmcquaid, @bobbymacreports, @jeffjarvis, @jayrosen_nyu, @raju, @johnmcquaid, @mattyglesias, @jayrosen_nyu, @lauraelizdavis, @chanders, @denngree, @chanders, @jeffjarvis and Vanity Fair
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia increases the flow of false news stories spread in EU and US on social media and outlets like Sputnik, sometimes spilling into traditional news media — STOCKHOLM — With a vigorous national debate underway on whether Sweden should enter a military partnership with NATO …
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@alinasphere, @samtamiz, @stephwillerton, @anneapplebaum, @jimhake, @politechris, @empireburlesque and @mspaaz
Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Questions for those cheering the demise of a media organization at the hands of a legal system — Gawker.com, the pioneering and controversial media blog, officially died yesterday. It was killed by billionaire Peter Thiel in his successful quest to bankrupt Gawker Media Group through …
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Guardian, New Republic, @gaberivera, @trevortimm, @bradwilson, @nixxin, @mims, @zackbogue, @mmasnick and Magforum
Brian Feldman / New York Magazine:
To serve advertisers, digital media companies are shifting away from text and pictures toward video, a hard move for small web properties with few resources — It's been a big, weird year for the media industry. Gawker, the pioneering blog, declared bankruptcy and was sold off to Univision …
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USA Today, @jaycaspiankang, @medium, @maxrivlinnadler, @noahchestnut, @mariekshan, @lauraelizdavis, Business Insider and The Wrap
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
The dominance of Drudge, Breitbart, Hannity, and Coulter and their Trump support have damaged Republican party, other conservative media figures say — Sean Hannity, sitting comfortably in his air-conditioned New York studios on a hot August afternoon, was on a fiery rant.
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Roger Yu / USA Today:
Q&A with Time Inc. chief content officer Alan Murray on growing digital revenue, building audiences across platforms, and breaking down silos across brands — Alan Murray has been a journalist since he was a 9-year-old kid, publishing his neighborhood newspaper.
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@jamcnn
Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
Univision's $135M Gawker buy is a desperate play for millennials to build toward a face-saving IPO — The Spanish-language broadcaster's flawed strategy to chase bilingual young audiences with the doomed Fusion TV network has given way to a new obsession with English-only sites like The Onion …
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@profjeffjarviss, @rafat, @johncassidy and @michaelwolffnyc
Ingrid Cobben / WAN-IFRA:
Q&A with editor-in-chief Lea Korsgaard of Denmark's Zetland on building a reader-funded publication — In order to succeed in the new media market, you have to rethink the relationship between journalists and readers, according to Danish publication Zetland, which is well on the way to building …
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@orskov
Jon Talton / Rogue Columnist:
A look back at the importance of newspapers and their buildings amid a wave of demolitions — Apparently, most Americans learned about the death spiral of metropolitan newspapers and the consequences from watching John Oliver. Then they went back to kitten videos on social media.
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@jontalton and @marynewsom
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
As business challenges hit college newspapers, those owned by for-profit entities face bigger squeezes or a shutdown — The Central Florida Future, the student newspaper at the University of Central Florida founded in 1968, published its last issue August 4.
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The Lantern, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
Quartz:
Sources: Facebook letting go of entire Trending Topics editorial staff, consisting of 15-18 workers contracted through a third party — Facebook will no longer employ humans to write descriptions for items in its Trending section, which attracted controversy over allegations of political bias in May.
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Gizmodo, FishbowlNY, @alexjamesfitz, @pkafka, MediaFile, @ronellsmith, @diakayyali, @nathanjurgenson, @mcwm, @charlesarthur, @codybrown, @marginoferror, @caitlin__kelly, @glennf, @michaelroston, @_alastair, @daveyalba, @oneunderscore__, @dseetharaman, @digiphile, @dsilverman, @walldo, @geoffreyfowler, @auerbachkeller, @schwindter, @resnikoff, @fmanjoo, @leibelm, @phogan and @mattdrange
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Facebook Newsroom:
Facebook will now select stories and excerpts automatically for Trending topic pages, show topics instead of story descriptions in Trending section
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Although Hillary Clinton has held no press conferences in 2016, she's given 350 interviews in first seven months the year, favoring national TV and local radio — Hillary Clinton has not held a single press conference since the start of 2016, triggering charges that she's trying to duck questions from reporters on the campaign trail.
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New York Times, The Wrap, @gopsux2, @agyllenhaal and @danmericacnn
Nausicaa Renner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with The Coral Project's director Andrew Losowsky on Trust, Ask, and Talk, the open source tools it's developing for improving comment sections — NPR last week announced its decision to shut down comments on its website in favor of comments on social media—saying “the audience itself has decided.”
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@cjr and @evesamples
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