Mediagazer: FT Sources: after talking with Trump's team, AT&T executives are confident their proposed merger with Time Warner will go through, despite campaign rhetoric (Nathan McAlone/Business Insider)

11:35 AM ET, December 2, 2016

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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 …

Mathew Ingram / Fortune:

BuzzFeed names fake news expert Craig Silverman as its first media editor; based in Toronto, he will focus on social media platforms, misinformation, and more — Media writers at traditional news companies tend to see New York City as the nexus of all things important to the industry.

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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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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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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Electionland, a coalition of news organizations led by ProPublica with about 450 journalists, saw no evidence of widespread voter fraud, refuting Trump's claims

Discussion: @heoj, @electionland, @niemanlab and @jessicahuseman

Kim Zetter / The Intercept:

Internet Archive was allowed to publish an NSL in redacted form, after it challenged the legality of FBI's request and gag order directly in a letter — A decade ago, the FBI sent Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, a now-infamous type of subpoena known as a National Security Letter …

Discussion: @filosottile, @agcrocker, @micahflee, @theintercept, @jennamc_laugh and Electronic Frontier Foundation

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 …

Discussion: FishbowlNY and @glaad

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."

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, @craigsilverman, @cjr, @ericzuck, @anthony and (Re)Structuring Journalism

Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:

FT Sources: after talking with Trump's team, AT&T executives are confident their proposed merger with Time Warner will go through, despite campaign rhetoric — President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has assured AT&T that, contrary to Trump's campaign rhetoric …

Discussion: Fast Company, VentureBeat and Fortune

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 …

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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.

Discussion: Fortune, Broadcasting & Cable, LostRemote, Awful Announcing, Los Angeles Times, Deadline, Bloomberg and CBS News

Carlett Spike / Columbia Journalism Review:

Q&A with Lisette Poole, a photojournalist based in Cuba, on misconceptions about the island and how the media should rethink its coverage — A panorama of Marta with other migrants crossing Ecuador by bus. They traveled the length of Ecuador in one day from the Peruvian to the Colombian border.

Discussion: @bypetevernon, @nmenonrao and @shelleymiranda

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.

Discussion: TechCrunch, RAIN News, Radio & Television …, Forbes, The Verge, PR Newswire, Engadget, AllAccess.com and CNET

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