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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
News outlets reported Trump's claim about millions voting illegally as if it were true — Newsrooms are still coming to grips with a soon-to-be-president able to distract and distort on Twitter. — NEW YORK On Sunday afternoon, Politico editorial director for digital Blake Hounshell rightly pointed …
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Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Laura Ingraham, currently under consideration for White House press secretary role, owns many websites including LifeZette, which frequently publishes fake news — The extraordinary phenomenon of fake news spread by Facebook and other social media during the 2016 presidential election …
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Voter fraud claim had already been debunked by Snopes and Politifact, after being shared on Facebook 50K+ times, before Trump tweeted it — Fake news, we have learned over the past several weeks, is spread easily by profiteers, propagandists, and performance artists.
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Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
AT&T's DirecTV Now streaming TV service launches Nov. 30 starting at $35/mo. for 60+ channels, up to $70/month for 120+ channels — [UPDATE: Channel lineup below the fold.] — AT&T has officially unveiled details about its upcoming streaming TV service called DirecTV Now.
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Micah Singleton / The Verge:
AT&T mobile subscribers will be able to stream DirecTV Now without using their data, as the company doubles down on disregard for the ethos of net neutrality — DirecTV Now will be available tomorrow — At an event in New York City today, AT&T has announced that its mobile subscribers …
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
Canada has lost about half of its journalists in the last decade, sources say, as government assesses future without country's two largest newspaper companies — Canada's press woes are bad enough unto themselves, but they also serve as a sign of earlier winter for the U.S. press.
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
CNN acquires social-video startup Beme, co-founded by YouTube star Casey Neistat; app to be shut down, team to form a new media startup as an extension of CNN — With millions of people regularly tuning in to his YouTube video blogs every morning, Casey Neistat has a millennial fan base coveted by both marketers and media companies.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Report: Time Inc. board rejects buyout bid from Edgar Bronfman Jr. for $18 a share, which is an 18% premium over its Friday closing price of $13.80 — Edgar Bronfman Jr. is making a bid to buy Time Inc., publisher of People, Time and Sports Illustrated, The Post has learned.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sling TV announces cloud DVR feature, launching beta in December, to take on Sony's PlayStation Vue, others — As competition between television streaming services heats up, Dish's Sling TV announced a new feature designed to better compete with rivals like Sony's PlayStation Vue and others …
The Guardian:
The Guardian has moved to HTTPS, partly to stop ISPs tracking what readers are reading, information the paper believes “may be used against them” — Our content has now been served over HTTPS for two months and we thought it was time to share some of the reasons, processes and challenges behind the project.
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed's chief marketing and chief creative officer, Frank Cooper, is leaving the company after about a year and a half — Mr. Cooper will depart after about 18 months with the digital media company — BuzzFeed's chief marketing and chief creative officer, Frank Cooper …
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The Texas Tribune is hiring a reporter to forge relationships with readers, use feedback to drive coverage, crowdfunding $25K to partially cover the position — The reporter will be charged with forging relationships with readers and using their feedback to help drive The Texas Tribune's coverage.
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