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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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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 …
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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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 …
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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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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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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 …
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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 …
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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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.
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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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