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Loren Grush / The Verge:
RCN, CNN's regional partner in Boston, says it can find no evidence porn was aired; story was based on a series of tweets which news orgs failed to fact-check — Last night, a twitter account by the name of @solikearose tweeted out a surprising image of CNN broadcasting porn instead …
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Ishmael N. Daro / BuzzFeed:
The CNN porn glitch appears to have happened but only affected one viewer; initial reports claimed it was widespread for viewers in Boston — A woman in Boston who tried to watch CNN on Thanksgiving says her cable box showed her hardcore porn instead. — Twitter user @solikearose shared …
Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
One group WaPo cited in its Russian propaganda story is associated with Cold War proponents; the second group appears to have launched only recently — One of the themes that has emerged during the controversy over “fake news” and its role in the election of Donald Trump is the idea …
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Brian Morrissey / Digiday:
Michael Wolff on Trump coverage: media failed to do its job, will need to stop being defensive and focus on reporting facts — At a time of media soul searching over the rise of Donald Trump, longtime media watcher and columnist Michael Wolff is perhaps the most unsparing in his assessment.
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Carrie Brown:
In election coverage, the press has done a better job of representing white working-class voters than it has marginalized groups like ethnic minorities — Doubling down on catering to white people or so-called impartiality is not the answer — Faced with the growing recognition …
Sarah Esther Maslin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of El Faro, an 18-year-old growing news site covering the drug and gang wars in El Salvador, which has faced threats and won journalism prizes — Salvadoran website El Faro has built its reputation with stirring stories of gangland, sparking threats at home and racking up prizes abroad.
Ben Arnon / The Huffington Post:
Q&A with National Geographic's Sarah Leen on the process of getting images from camera to the page, advice for photographers, and on finding the perfect photo — If you're like me, you've grown up with a deep fascination of and a keen appreciation for the photographs in National Geographic.
Roy Greenslade / The Guardian:
IPSO assembles a yet-to-be named journalists' advisory panel and a six-member readers' advisory panel that includes Leveson inquiry participant Tom Rowland — Core participant at the Leveson inquiry among the six people who will act as external reviewers of the press regulator's conduct and practice
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Le Monde's fact-checking unit has been developing a hoax-busting database that readers can access via browser extensions, will begin rollout in January — Fake news has become an online pestilence, and Le Monde wants to bust it wide open. That's why the French newspaper's 13-person fact …
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Nic Dawes / Columbia Journalism Review:
Advice for US media on dealing with a new political reality from Human Rights Watch's head of media Nic Dawes, who formerly worked as an editor in India — Photo via National Park Service Digital Image Archives — Dear friends in American journalism, — Ordinarily, it is you who offer …
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The Guardian and Columbia Journalism Review
Matt Pressberg / The Wrap:
Report: Facebook's Q1-Q3 2016 US ad revenue exceeded Comcast's and Disney's ad sales, first time the social network's ad revenue overtook traditional media's — Facebook has become most Americans' main source for news, and it now brings in more U.S. ad revenue than the country's biggest media companies …
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Variety:
Disney CEO Bob Iger discusses his retirement in June 2018, future plans, succession troubles, and the “inevitability” of selling ESPN directly to consumers — But it is there, in a tiny sushi bar, that the chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Co. finds inspiration …
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