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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, TechCrunch, Nieman Lab, Fortune and @tomgara
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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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, Washington Post, Vanity Fair and Editor & Publisher
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 …
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 …
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The Age and iMediaEthics
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
Bloomberg:
Pandora's stock up 16% on reports of a possible sale; sources say Sirius XM approached the company again and Pandora has reached out to other potential suitors — Board hasn't responded to new engagement from Greg Maffei — Pandora advisers have begun soliciting interest from buyers
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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.
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@violetblue, @kashhill, @vauhinivara and BetaNews
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
Automated placement of online advertising complicates brands' efforts to disassociate from Breitbart News and fake news sites — The Vanguard Group does its best to stay away from politics when advertising, going so far as to have a policy against marketing on overtly partisan websites.
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@sapna, NPR, Little Green Footballs and Digiday
Ben Sullivan / Motherboard:
The Free Press Action Fund wants money raised through the sale of public TV spectrum to be spent on community media and local journalism — As society gulps down more and more digital services, it's also rapidly moving away from consuming media via traditional television channels.
Alex Heath / Business Insider:
Sources: Facebook is working on Collections, a feature to showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed — Facebook is working on a new feature that will showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed, according to two people familiar …
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VentureBeat, Engadget, @eladgil, Mediaite, Vanity Fair, Vox, Mashable, SocialTimes, The Verge, AOL, @mikeisaac, @jessicalessin, @pernillet, @jbenton, @alexia, @pewinternet, Editor & Publisher and Fortune
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump surrogates' disdain for facts should not be surprising but requires vigilance from reporters and a re-reading of Orwell — You may think you are prepared for a post-truth world, in which political appeals to emotion count for more than statements of verifiable fact.
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@nytimes, Media Matters for America, New York Times, @stevesilberman, The Guardian, @resnikoff, @kaymerkelboruff, FishbowlDC, @larrysalz, @jamesfallows, @brendannyhan, Jezebel, Mediaite, @jayrosen_nyu, New York Magazine, @stevebryant, @mlcalderone, @rubinafillion, @ananavarro, @sulliview, @bjm_pgh, @gwfrink3, @jayrosen_nyu and Mother Jones
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