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“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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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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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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@edenlane, @williamsjon, @palafo, @gilbertcremulla, @nytimes and @brianstelter, Thanks:@ravichandrans25


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.


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


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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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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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


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.


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


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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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 …