Mediagazer: 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 (Timothy B. Lee/Vox)

2:30 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.

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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

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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.

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Peter Kafka / Recode:

Comcast's NBCUniversal will handle ad sales for Apple News in exclusive deal starting in January; Apple says Apple News now has over 70M unique users — It's an exclusive deal, but publishers can still sell their own. — Apple is bringing in help to boost its News app.

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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 …

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 …

Discussion: @sykescharlie, @hadas_gold and @patrickruffini

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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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.

Discussion: @aaronwiener, @moody, @bethanyshondark, @cathleendecker, @bterris, @maggienyt, @resnikoff, @hadas_gold, @grahamdavida, ABC News and @bterris

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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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

Emily Steel / New York Times:

How Comcast and NBCUniversal used Minions to solidify their merger, which provides a template for looking at AT&T's proposed $85B takeover of Time Warner — Minions, the impish fire hydrant-shaped yellow misfits who exist to serve the world's most evil villains, would appear …

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 …

Discussion: @hale_a and @joshuatopolsky

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