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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
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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Felix Salmon / TinyLetter:
As digital prices have gone down, the cost of a NYT print subscription has risen by 93% since 1989 and could rise by 3% a year for the foreseeable future — This note comes to you a few weeks later than I thought it would. After suffering through the worst election campaign that I've ever experienced …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
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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Kristina Cooke / Reuters:
Facebook developing AI to flag nudity, violence, and other content violating its policies in Facebook Live streams — Facebook Inc (FB.O) is working on automatically flagging offensive material in live video streams, building on a growing effort to use artificial intelligence to monitor content …
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Reuters built 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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Chris Welch / The Verge:
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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Adrian Chen / New Yorker:
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 …
Peter Kafka / Recode:
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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Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
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.
Roy Greenslade / The Guardian:
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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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
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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GLAAD:
GLAAD introduces the Trump Accountability Project, a resource for journalists cataloguing the anti-LGBTQ statements made by Trump and those in his circle — The Trump Accountability Project (TAP) is a resource for journalists, editors, and other news makers reporting on the Trump administration …
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