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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
“Epic fail” in covering the political landscape by media as idealistic and naive journalists failed to take Trump voters seriously — To put it bluntly, the media missed the story. In the end, a huge number of American voters wanted something different.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Journalists failed to question the polls predicting a Clinton victory because the data confirmed their gut feeling about who would win — All the dazzling technology, the big data and the sophisticated modeling that American newsrooms bring to the fundamentally human endeavor of presidential politics …
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
A collection of newspaper front pages from around the country, documenting Donald Trump winning the 2016 US presidential election — We asked newspapers to send us their post-election front pages on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Here's a look at what we're seeing so far.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Source: Huffington Post ends appending an editor's note to all Trump stories, calling him a liar, racist, and a xenophobe — The Huffington Post's editor's note calling Donald Trump as a “racist” and “xenophobe” is no more, a source in the newsroom tells POLITICO.
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Reuters:
Time Warner's and AT&T's shares fell 2% and 1.4% respectively on Wednesday over concerns Trump will keep his vow to block AT&T acquisition — Shares of media group Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) fell more than 2 percent on Wednesday on concerns that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump …
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Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Pew: social media has caused 20% of users to change stance on political issues and 17% to change view on specific candidates — Politics on social media - as in real life - isn't always pretty. In an election season marked by partisan animosity, a recent Pew Research Center report found …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
PlayStation Vue will lose Viacom channels on November 11, will add BBC America and NBA TV on Wednesday, and Vice plus CBS and FOX broadcast stations soon — Sony's PlayStation Vue streaming TV service has just hit a bit of a roadblock in terms of its content lineup.
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Business Insider drops comments from articles — Business Insider has joined other websites in dropping the comments function at the end of its articles. — Mario Ruiz, a spokesman for the business news website, told Talking Biz News: … Other business and financial news sites …
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Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Fox's Chris Wallace, who earned high praise for his debate moderation and whose Sunday show has since scored its highest ratings in 13 years — Chris Wallace was worried. It was October 18, and the next evening, in front of more than 70 million viewers, the veteran newsman …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Ex-Fusion executive Wade Beckett joins video game news outlet IGN as chief programming officer and senior Vice-President of video — Wade Beckett, after exiting Univision Communication's Fusion earlier this year, has joined video-game media outlet IGN Entertainment as chief programming officer and senior VP of video.
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Nausicaa Renner / Columbia Journalism Review:
New “digital fixers” guide reporters into relevant private chat rooms on apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, Weibo, Wickr, and Telegram — When An Xiao Mina traveled to Shenzhen, China, to do research on selfie stick production, she needed a way to know where people were talking.
Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune:
How Chicago Tribune documented the Cubs' win visually: four strategically placed photographers in ballpark using cameras with Ethernet lines and FTP — Chicago Tribune pages from when the Cubs clinched the NLCS, the World Series, and the Grant Park victory rally. — Tribune photojournalist
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