Mediagazer: The New York Times may have added as many as 170K subscribers since the election, sometimes at a rate of more than 10K a day, up from 600 pre-election (Ken Doctor/Politico)

12:30 PM ET, December 6, 2016

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Joe Pompeo / Politico:

New York Times Public Editor Liz Spayd says she should have “held back more” when criticizing tweets by the paper's journalists, but stands by her views — PUBLIC EDITOR ADDRESSES TIMES TWEET CRITICISM CRITICISM — Liz Spayd acknowledged that she may have gone too far in castigating …

Discussion: @bgrueskin, Daily Mail, @brattlestcap, @blakehounshell, @stefanfatsis, Business Insider, AOL and The Guardian

Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:

NYT public editor Liz Spayd told Tucker Carlson some tweets from NYT political reporters were “outrageous” and should be met with “kind of a consequence” — New York Times public editor Liz Spayd said Friday night that she believed certain tweets authored …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @felixsalmon, @tomlevenson, @maura, @noahmccormack, @maura, @samfbiddle, @mikeisaac, @jacobwe, @olivianuzzi, @joshtpm, Western Journalism, @poniewozik, @mathewi, @jayrosen_nyu and @jessicavalenti

Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

Analysis of news links in Trump tweets shows that Breitbart dominated, while traditional outlets like The Washington Post joined far-right sites as top sources — BuzzFeed News analyzed all the links Donald Trump tweeted since he launched his presidential campaign to determine where the president-elect gets his news.

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, The Week, Business Insider, Mediaite, Vox, Memex 1.1, bookforum.com and Politico

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Media watchdog Media Matters promotes Angelo Carusone to president, announces it is shifting towards monitoring fake news, Breitbart, the alt-right, others — Liberal media-watchdog organization Media Matters is naming a new president and taking its coverage in a new direction …

Discussion: The Wrap, Mediaite, @poniewozik, @mlcalderone and @hadas_gold

Kyle Chayka / The Verge:

Google AMP, Facebook's Instant Articles, and Apple News make articles from fake news sites look the same as those from Bloomberg and The New York Times — AMP and Instant Articles makes lies as pretty as truth — If you asked Google who won the popular vote just after the election …

Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
The shooter who attacked a pizzeria after fake news controversy likes Infowars and host Alex Jones on Facebook; InfoWars published many stories about Pizzagate

Madeline Berg / Forbes:

PewDiePie tops Forbes list of highest-paid YouTube stars of 2016, earning $15M, driven by his series YouTube Red and sales of his book — Five years ago, Roman Atwood uploaded the first YouTube video, “Epic Cooler Prank!”, to his page. In the three-minute-long video …

Discussion: Variety, Mashable, The Wrap and The Independent

Andrew Griffin / The Independent:

YouTuber PewDiePie threatened to delete his channel because fewer people are seeing his videos and suggested the site was penalising him because he's white — The Swedish YouTuber has said that he is going to delete his account because the video site has been penalising him and other YouTubers …

Discussion: @mathewi, VentureBeat and The Wrap

Facebook:

To curb terrorist content, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube will create shared database identifying terrorist images/videos removed from their services — Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are coming together to help curb the spread of terrorist content online.

Alex Weprin / Politico:

Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes says Democrats have been more of a threat to the First Amendment than Trump, does not believe Trump will alter it — Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, who counts CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. and TBS among the media companies in his portfolio, says that President-Elect Donald …

Discussion: Business Insider and @brettlogiurato

Sensor Tower Blog:

Netflix becomes top grossing iOS app in the US for the first time, as weekly net revenue grows to nearly $2.9M — Just over a year after Netflix began allowing iOS users to subscribe to its service via in-app purchases, the Netflix app has summited the Top Grossing Apps chart for iPhone on the U.S. App Store.

Discussion: AppAdvice.com Latest, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Variety, AppleInsider and TechCrunch

Ad Age:

Ad Age Editor Ken Wheaton steps down, after just over a year in the role; executive editor and deputy editor will oversee magazine until successor is named — Ad Age Editor Ken Wheaton will leave the publication at the end of the year to focus on his fiction writing, it was announced today.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and @bristei

Sydney Ember / New York Times:

Village Voice names former Harper's Bazaar executive editor Stephen Mooallem Editor-in-Chief, will focus on editorial relaunch, print, and web redesign — The Village Voice, a once-iconic New York newspaper whose tumult in the last several years has overshadowed its journalism …

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Hadas Gold / Politico:
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
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Discussion: Voice of San Diego, @jenniferpreston, @niemanlab, @tristanloper, @democracyfund and @ylichterman

Ken Doctor / Politico:
The New York Times may have added as many as 170K subscribers since the election, sometimes at a rate of more than 10K a day, up from 600 pre-election

Discussion: FishbowlDC, Nieman Lab, @thusbloggeda, Poynter, Fortune, Politico, Mediaite, @fmanjoo, @kdoctor, Hollywood Reporter, @gerryfsmith, @joepompeo, @hirokotabuchi, @davidjoachim, @jessepesta, @myurow, @jswatz, @malachybrowne, @kdoctor, @alexandrajacobs, @ssstrom and @jswatz

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