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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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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
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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@tomgara
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 …
Discussion:
The Age and iMediaEthics
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.
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.
Discussion:
@josefkstories, @richarddeitsch, @slone and @slone
Katherine Corcoran / AP News:
Four years ago journalist Regina Martinez was killed in Veracruz, Mexico; her murder, still unsolved, has scared others into silence — XALAPA, Mexico (AP) — The death of reporter Regina Martinez was almost too much for her colleagues to bear. — Four others already had been murdered …
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@foreman_william
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
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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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Corey Lewandowski, Trump's informal adviser and potential employee, says NYT editor Dean Baquet should be in jail for publishing Trump's tax documents — Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's first campaign manager, said Thursday that New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet “should be in jail” …
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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 and Little Green Footballs
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