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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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Max Read / New York Magazine:
Facebook's massive reach, abundance of emotionally charged fake viral stories, and lack of traditional gatekeepers helped Donald Trump win — A close and — to pundits, journalists, and Democrats — unexpected victory like Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's is always overdetermined …
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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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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 …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Covering President Trump will require fearless, deep journalism, news organizations willing to fund court battles, and help from some heroes — One thing is certain in the presumptive era of President Trump. Journalists are going to have to be better — stronger, more courageous, stiffer-spined — than they've ever been.
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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.
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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Startup VoteCastr, which worked with Slate and Vice News to publish real-time polling results, got predictions wrong in five of seven battleground states — Nearly every pre-election poll showed Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump heading into Tuesday — and even the Republic National …
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Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Breitbart News is expanding its US operation by hiring more journalists and is launching sites in France and Germany, says its US EIC Alex Marlow — The right-wing Breitbart News Network is expanding its U.S. operations and launching sites in Germany and France, its U.S. editor-in-chief told Reuters …
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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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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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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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