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2:55 PM ET, November 9, 2016

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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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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.
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.
Discussion: @zimmtv
James Poniewozik / New York Times:
TV news networks were completely unprepared for Donald Trump's win and it was reflected in their coverage, with little analysis of the implications  —  None of this was in the script.  —  The presidential election had obsessed the news media for a year and a half.
Discussion: Mediaite
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.
Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
Trump's win exposed smug media assumptions that endorsements count, polling works, and advertising matters  —  Ads don't work, polls don't work, celebrities don't work, media endorsements don't work and ground games don't work.  —  The media turned itself into the opposition and, accordingly …
Discussion: @nicknotned and @robenfarzad
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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 …
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.
Discussion: @kierstenslader and @blairherter
 
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Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune:
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