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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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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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CNNMoney, @facttank, @bencjacobs, @ed_realist, @mlcalderone, @brianbeutler, @reddy, @aliwatkins, Fortune, @amykoehler, FishbowlDC, Washington Post and New York Magazine
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.
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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@palafo, @gilbertcremulla and @nytimes, Thanks:@ravichandrans25
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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PlayStation.Blog, Deadline, Broadcasting & Cable, Ad Age, The Verge, Polygon, Variety and @srabil
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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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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FTVLive, @alan_p_martin, @brettws, @quendergeer, @hadas_gold, @joemacare, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and RT
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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@bypetevernon, @spinmagazine and Mediaite
David Lieberman / Deadline:
Tribune Media's Q3 misses expectations, with political ad revenue lower than expected but revenue up 6% to $518.1M, boosted by real estate deals — Tribune Media just released Q3 earnings that fell short of Wall Street expectations — and dropped its full year guidance citing …
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Hollywood Reporter and @lynnemarek
Anya George Tharakan / Reuters:
Viacom Q4 misses expectations as revenue falls 14.8% to $3.23B, domestic ad revenue down 8%; net profit plunges to $254M from $884M a year ago — Viacom Inc (VIAB.O), the owner of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, posted quarterly revenue below estimates on Wednesday …
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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Columbia Journalism Review, @rwcoyote51, @mik1977, @stacystclair, @scottheisel, @kelllyzhou, @davegustafson, @writeithall and FishbowlNY
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.