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Sources: Trump used his private meeting with high-profile TV figures to berate them for dishonesty and shortsightedness, criticizing some in the room by name — It had all the trappings of a high-level rapprochement: President-elect Donald J. Trump, now the nation's press critic in chief …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Trump's off-the-record meeting with top network executives and anchors comes amid serious concerns over the press' access to the incoming administration — The off-the-record gathering comes amid serious concerns over the press' access to the incoming administration.
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Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
How two fake news writers, self-proclaimed yellow journalists, say they found success sharing stories with shock value on Facebook — LONG BEACH, Calif. — Fewer than 2,000 readers are on his website when Paris Wade, 26, awakens from a nap, reaches for his laptop and thinks he needs to, as he puts it, “feed” his audience.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Social media giants including Facebook have a responsibility to help defend truth, as Trump and some of his advisers have embraced and spread falsehoods
Aarti Shahani / NPR:
Sources describe how Facebook's community operations team, which consists of several thousand people, rapidly judges flagged content
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
How Facebook's fake news problem emerged as it emphasized real-time content, with the debut of its Share button in 2012 and hashtags and Trending in mid-2013
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook should hire an executive editor and give that person the resources, power, and staff to make sound editorial decisions
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Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC:
WSJ sources: Amazon has held talks with NBA, MLB, and NFL to stream live sports, and has proposed a premium exclusive sports package through Amazon Prime — CNBC's Julia Boorstin on a Wall Street Journal report that Amazon is looking into streaming live sporting events.
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Max Kutner / Newsweek:
Profile of Robert Mercer, the billionaire who invested $10M in Breitbart News and helped bankroll Donald Trump's presidential campaign — IN THE MAGAZINE — U.S. DONALD TRUMP STEPHEN BANNON 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION — That might have been OK for the folks inside that grand ballroom …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCUniversal is investing another $200M in BuzzFeed, which will collaborate with NBCU's Content Studio under extended advertising-sales relationship — NBCUniversal announced Monday that it has made an additional $200 million investment in BuzzFeed — on top of the $200 million it invested last year.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Jim VandeHei hires FCC's press secretary Kim Hart to oversee tech coverage at his new site — It's Kim Hart, currently the press secretary at the FCC. — Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei's new company doesn't have a name yet. And he has yet to explain exactly what the company will be, exactly.
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@danprimack, CNBC, Broadcasting & Cable and FishbowlNY
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Reese Witherspoon partners with Otter Media—the joint venture of AT&T and the Chernin Group—to form a women-focused digital media company, Hello Sunshine — Media and tech industry veteran Kerry Tucker named CEO of Hello Sunshine — Reese Witherspoon has established digital …
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Deborah Needleman is leaving T Magazine after a four-year run as editor in chief; no successor has yet been named — Deborah Needleman is leaving her post as editor in chief of T Magazine after four years at the helm of the glossy style supplement published by The New York Times, POLITICO has learned.
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Publishers' app store ratings are being driven down by right-wing trolls leaving one star reviews and comments accusing the publishers of left-wing bias — Two new fronts have opened up in the battle between the left and the right over media bias: the Apple App Store and Google Play.
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@retroremakes, @dvsch and @jayrosen_nyu
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Sources: ABC is exploring the possibility of launching a 24-hour digital news channel in 2017; it follows ABC's experiments with Facebook Live — The election is over, but ABC is exploring the possibility of a new 24-hour digital news channel. Our distribution tipsters say that some months ago …
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Variety, FishbowlNY and Mediaite
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
The Financial Times is in talks to buy companies that strengthen its digital subscription business and bolster its data analytics, one year after Nikkei deal — Newspaper looks to buy companies that boost subscriber growth — Brexit, U.S. election have helped bolster paid readership
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@rafat, @niemanlab and @darcyday
Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Megyn Kelly claims some TV hosts colluded with Trump, warning him they would ask tough questions in order to appear credible; Hannity responds defensively — Earlier today, Fox News host Megyn Kelly appeared on MediaBuzz and made the claim that many pro-Trump hosts at various networks were …
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