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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 …
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The Hill, Mediaite, The Wrap, The Week, FishbowlNY, @mlcalderone, @hadas_gold, @poniewozik and TheBlaze
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 …
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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 …
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.
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CNN, Washington Post, The Week, Business Insider, Mediaite, Vox, Memex 1.1, bookforum.com and Politico
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 …
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Variety, Mashable, The Wrap and The Independent
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
At least four other businesses say they've received threats in connection with Pizzagate, a conspiracy theory promoted by a Trump ally and sites like Infowars — The Washington, D.C., pizzeria into which a man armed with an assault rifle strode on Sunday, allegedly to investigate for himself …
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Washington Post, @tomkludt, @thusbloggeda, bookforum.com and CNN
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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
The shooter who attacked a pizzeria after fake news controversy likes Infowars and host Alex Jones on Facebook; InfoWars published many stories about Pizzagate
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Politico, New York Times, CNN, Media Matters for America, Foreign Policy, @brianstelter, CNNMoney, Mediaite, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Morning Consult, Business Insider, Washington Post, fox13now.com, New York Magazine, @blakehounshell, BBC, Vox, Engadget, Mashable, The Wrap, Washingtonian, FishbowlDC, BBC, Media Nation, The Daily Caller, Mother Jones, Fast Company, New York Times and @adamserwer
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Boston Globe's medicine and health news site, STAT, launches STAT Plus, a $300/year service with news, events, and other perks for pharma, biotech professionals — Publishers have been rolling out paywalls and membership programs in the hunt for a way to fund online journalism.
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Nieman Lab, STAT, @seangriffey, @tothevictor, @dankennedy_nu, Poynter and Media Nation
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 …
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TheBlaze, @brettlogiurato and Business Insider
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.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Center for Democracy …, SocialTimes, MSPoweruser, Techdirt, The Verge, World News Publishing Focus …, Business Insider, CNNMoney, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, The Tech Portal, Beyond Search, MediaNama, Engadget, Fortune, ZDNet, BetaNews, Mashable, @cwarzel, @mikeisaac, @sarahcuda, The Drum and TechCrunch
Chris Cioffi / Raleigh News & Observer:
Raleigh Agenda, an extension of local news and lifestyle startup Charlotte Agenda, is shutting down and laying off two staffers — RALEIGH — The Charlotte-based owner of the downtown-centric online publication Raleigh Agenda has laid off its staff and shuttered its Triangle outpost.
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Nieman Lab, Raleigh Agenda, @raleighreporter, @joeovies, @pblest, @lb_harris and @seatedovation
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 — If you asked Google who won the popular vote just after the election, there's a chance you would have been sent to a conspiracy blog with bogus results.
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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.
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MacRumors, AppAdvice.com Latest, Fortune, 9to5Mac, Variety, AppleInsider and TechCrunch