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Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed:
Snapchat avoids the fake news epidemic by vetting publishers who appear in Discover, hiring human editors for Live Stories, and limiting re-sharing — Being a control freak pays off. “It's impossible for somebody to go rogue in Discover.” — Facebook emerged during the U.S. election …
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New York Times, @briansolis, @garthk, @carnage4life, @damienmulley, @robcurley, @slade, @jeremysliew, @philmop, @convergencetr, @puiwingtam, @anneapplebaum, @mediatwit, @shiraovide and @jayrosen_nyu
Merissa Marr / Columbia Journalism Review:
Three years after launch, The Information has a reporting staff of 10, is cash-flow positive, and juggles a closed-club feel with aggressive reporting — On the astro-turfed rooftop of a SoHo penthouse this summer, a mix of tech executives, investors, and B-list celebrities sipped Champagne …
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Forbes, @dannysullivan, @aexm, @tomgara and @cspa
Susan B. Glasser / The Brookings Institution:
Political reporting has become better, faster, and more competitive in the last 30 years, but the new flood of information may be drowning us — Journalism has never been better, thanks to these last few decades of disruption. So why does it seem to matter so little? Reflections on the media in the age of Trump.
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@brookingsinst, @bermanjeff, @brookingsinst, Washington Post, Editor & Publisher and Vanity Fair
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Joshua Topolsky's new site The Outline launches, with the goal of being a next-generation version of The New Yorker; it may sell its ad tech to other publishers — Venture-backed site debuts with Snapchat-inspired navigation and three top sponsors — Joshua Topolsky's 2017 goals are nothing if not lofty.
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@joshuatopolsky, @marklittlenews and @jarroddicker
Amanda Hess / New York Times:
A look at Gab, the social network launched in August that has become a haven for the far right and now hosts 98K accounts — When the white nationalist leader Richard B. Spencer was suspended from Twitter recently, he hopped over to YouTube to address his supporters.
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@josefkstories, @richarddeitsch, @slone and @slone
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
One of top Google autocomplete suggestions for “are Jews” is “evil”, with 9 of top 10 search results saying “yes”; similar answers for many topics worry experts — Tech-savvy rightwingers have been able to ‘game’ the algorithms of internet giants and create …
Vauhini Vara / Bloomberg:
Facebook tests ad targeting for people streaming certain shows on Roku and Apple TVs, linking Facebook profiles with IP addresses — The Most Interesting Man in the World is said to have invented skinny-dipping and parallel-parked a train, but he's had trouble holding people's attention on Facebook.
Discussion:
@violetblue, @kashhill and @vauhinivara
Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
Facebook has no interest in fixing the fake news problem because doing so would lower user engagement which, in turn, would impact on its ad revenue — Setting aside the need to fix its current PR nightmare, Facebook has no objective interest in fixing its fake stories problem.
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@benwhitelaw, @jason_kint, @bgrueskin, @rishad, Quartz and @dangillmor
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
The editor in chief of Melbourne's The Age, Mark Forbes, resigns following accusations of sexual harassment — Forbes was stood down on Friday as Fairfax Media investigated a complaint that he groped a reporter at a music awards event — The editor-in-chief of the Age, Mark Forbes …
Discussion:
The Age and iMediaEthics
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
A volunteer project by a group of libraries, End of Term Presidential Harvest 2016, is saving valuable pages on federal government sites at risk of vanishing — By noon on Thursday, Davis Erin Anderson had copied the addresses of a few dozen websites and online PDFs that listed signs of climate change by state and region.
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@wcronon, @elyseea, @margotwilliams and @lizcastro
Johana Bhuiyan / Recode:
On Sunday, Jim VandeHei tweeted out a request for writers with 10K+ newsletter subscribers, raising speculation about what his new site, Axios, will look like — But that doesn't mean the model will look exactly like Politico, according to Dan Primack. — Politico* co-founder Jim VandeHei …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Oklahoma-based investigative news site The Tulsa Frontier ditches $30 per month paywall, becomes a nonprofit — The Oklahoma-based investigative site had about 750 subscribers paying $30 a month. — The Tulsa Frontier launched in 2015 in an attempt to take a different approach to local news.
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