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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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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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Matt Hackett:
In a candid post, Beme co-founder Matt Hackett says the product failed but CNN acquisition will allow the Beme team to keep working on the vision — Why I'm proud we're joining CNN … At my age in 1993, I definitely should have been asleep at 11pm. The sound of my dad, always a night-owl …
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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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Chris Moran:
Lessons from The Guardian's ex-Audience Editor Chris Moran: editorial responsibility should not be passed onto algorithms, time spent is a key metric, more — Seven years ago I started working full time at the Guardian in the glamorous role of SEO editorial executive.
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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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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Hulu plans to sell a package of live TV channels early next year; estimates suggest company will lose $400-$500M in 2016 and $500M in 2017 — Company will be first streaming provider to offer live video — Price said close to DirecTV Now; Comcast in talks for carriage
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The Guardian:
BBC journalist Hatice Kamer was detained in Turkish police custody overnight; she was allegedly accused of supporting a terrorist organization, may stand trial — Hatice Kamer, a journalist working for the BBC's Turkish-language service, held in south-east of country
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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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Ross Benes / Digiday:
Viral publishers like ViralNova, Distractify, and Upworthy are attracting fewer media buyers as they struggle with fraud, lose traffic — Viral publishers have been inoculated. — Media buyers tell Digiday that interest in viral publishers — such as ViralNova and Distractify …
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 …
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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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.
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