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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Post-election, as newsrooms face more cuts and an uncertain future financially, journalism's biggest challenge will be combatting the rise of fake news — The last year has turned the United States into a country of information addicts who compulsively check the television …
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Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Facebook's denial that it's a media company allows it to avoid taking responsibility for bad editorial decisions, like trending fake news stories that go viral — A generation ago, newspapers and television news programs had a lot of influence over what people read and watched.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Media's dependency on campaign coverage, which has generated new traffic records, masks downward trends the industry will have to face after the election — Thanks to Donald Trump, the news media has enjoyed a feast of public attention for the past year or more. But a crash diet could be just around the corner.
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
WSJ: National Enquirer, published by longtime Trump friend David Pecker, paid Playboy model $150K for the story of her affair with Trump, then didn't publish it — It's time to revive the debate over whether we have to take the National Enquirer seriously because one time they were right about John Edwards' affair.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
How Trump used cable TV, social media, right-wing blogs, and radio to create an alternative information pipeline and neutralize established media — He made himself the biggest news story since 9/11, and almost neutered the press in the process. — No matter who claims the presidency on November 8 …
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Leaked customer-support docs for AT&T's DirecTV Now service reveal details on channels and promos, including giveaways for Apple TV and Fire TV stick devices — AT&T is prepared to go all out on behalf of its new DirecTV Now service: The company is looking to give away Apple TV …
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Business Insider, MacRumors, Fortune and @jank0
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Ex-Cablevision CEO James Dolan, COO Kristin Dolan, launch VC firm Dolan Family Ventures, focused on investments in data, analytics, and tech-based businesses — Now that they're out of Cablevision Systems, Kristin and James Dolan are trying their hand at venture capital.
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
At a Trump rally in Minnesota, Reuters Politics photographed a supporter wearing a T-shirt promoting the lynching of journalists — At a Minnesota rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump today, Reuters Politics photographed one Trump supporter wearing a pretty provocative T-shirt.
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Breitbart:
Breitbart News had 37M unique visitors, generating 240M pageviews, in October; CEO Larry Solov says it has built a community that will last beyond election — “While several publishers have enjoyed an uptick in traffic due to election coverage, we are proud to have built a massive …
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Michael Forsythe / New York Times:
While 4 of 5 missing Hong Kong publishers have returned after detention in China, crackdown made it nigh impossible to print critical books on Chinese politics — HONG KONG — The metal door of Causeway Bay Bookstore is locked, just as it was month after month after the disappearances last year of five Hong Kong booksellers.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
As opinions shift, a new wave of cannabis-focused sites seeks more advertisers willing to do business — There's money in marijuana, but is there money in marijuana coverage? (Yes, yes there is.) — For three years, The Cannabist, a promising digital project from the struggling Denver Post …
Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
Review of Tim Wu's Attention Merchants: an elegant survey of media's annexation of human consciousness through propaganda, TV commercials, social media, more — Does anyone remember when Rolling Rock beer ran a campaign on highway billboards back in 2008, promising that the company would project its logo onto the next full moon?
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