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12:40 PM ET, November 7, 2016

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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.
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.
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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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Conservative talk show host Michael Medved's anti-Trump stance costs him his primetime slot in Dallas with Salem Media, which is pro-Trump  —  The a conservative radio host loses his prime-time slot in Dallas and is left off a national tour.  —  Salem Media, home of some of the nation's …
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.
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Apple News update increases publishers traffic; CNN's section received 36.5M uniques in September, up from 5M in August; Bloomberg's spiked 500% in October  —  The traffic picture is improving for publishers on Apple News, but news organizations still have some big hangups when it comes to measurement and monetization.
Discussion: Digiday and Recode
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.
Joshua Topolsky:
Joshua Topolsky says The Outline will be launching in coming weeks, announces new hires, including Managing Editor Christine Werthman  —  On the future of The Outline.  Our team.  Our bodies.  Ourselves.  —  Let me preface this Personal News Medium Post by saying that I'm not really a fan …
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.
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
WaPo reporter Ben Terris recounts witnessing ex-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski grabbing reporter Michelle Fields and examines campaign's gaslighting  —  How an incident in March predicted months and months of gaslighting  —  “I just want to make sure,” my editor asked me as he closed the door to his office.
 
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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
Discussion: Guardian
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
As opinions shift, a new wave of cannabis-focused sites seeks more advertisers willing to do business
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
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
NFL Films is producing an exclusive nine-part VR video series for YouTube and Google's Daydream about life in and around the NFL, to debut November 24
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The Guardian app will send push notifications with real-time election updates to smartphone lock screens on Nov. 8, after tests during Brexit and first debate
Discussion: @rdmurphy