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Jeffrey Zucker defends CNN against political operatives' accusations of bias toward Trump, says he's proud of hiring Corey Lewandowski — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Jeffrey A. Zucker, CNN's president, is accustomed to complaints about his network going easy on Donald J. Trump …
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CNN interview shows some Trump voters citing “the media” and Facebook for false info that 3M non-citizens voted and Obama told undocumented people to vote — CNN's “New Day” program this morning gathered the thoughts of a group of Donald Trump supporters on issues ranging from the election to the transition and the media.
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Electionland, a coalition of news organizations led by ProPublica with about 450 journalists, saw no evidence of widespread voter fraud, refuting Trump's claims — More than 450 reporters from 250 outlets across the country have published over 300 stories as part of the Electionland project.


The anonymous group PropOrNot mislabeled some dissenting voices as Russian propaganda using messy methodology, with help from The Washington Post — In late October, I received an e-mail from “The PropOrNot Team,” which described itself as a “newly-formed independent team of computer scientists …
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The owner of the Daily Mail has written down all of its investment in Elite Daily, citing poor performance, and is taking a $31M loss — It's taking a $31 million loss. — Elite Daily used to look like a digital publishing success story: Founded by a couple of twentysomethings in 2012 …
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CBS and NFL reach multiyear deal allowing streaming of games starting Sunday on All Access — Only available in markets where CBS streams live TV — CBS and the National Football League have reached an agreement to let subscribers of the network's $6-per-month All Access service stream live NFL games.
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Reuters unveils Reuters News Tracer, its custom tool to monitor Twitter for breaking news and assign scores for veracity to tweets — “The world has a lot more witnesses now, and we can't be at everything. Our tool helps shift some of the burden of witnessing and lets journalists do much more of the high value-added work."
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Condé Nast's Self magazine is going all digital; its February issue will be its last regular print production and roughly 20 to 30 jobs will be cut — Condé Nast is said to make bigger restructuring moves around the new year. — Condé Nast is closing Self magazine in print, WWD has learned.


iHeartRadio debuts All Access on-demand music service powered by Napster for $9.99/month, iHeartRadio Plus commercial-free radio service for $4.99/month — iHeartRadio launched its on-demand music service in beta Thursday, promising paying users unlimited streaming access to full albums and millions of songs.
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The Financial Times says it earns more revenue from digital than print; three quarters of its 843K subscribers are digital-only — Business paper claims a first by earning more revenues from digital than print — The Financial Times has passed another significant milestone by securing more revenues from digital than print.
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YouTube announces support for 4K live streams of 360-degree and standard videos; first 4K stream will be Game Awards on December 1 — Back in 2010, we enabled 4K video support for the very first time. Since then, millions of videos have been uploaded at that eye-popping resolution …
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Storyful founder Mark Little to step down from dual role as managing director of Twitter Dublin and VP of media in Europe after a year with the company — Former RTÉ journalist offered number of options including US move — Twitter's Irish managing director Mark Little is stepping down …
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