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4:50 PM ET, December 6, 2016

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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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.
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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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
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.
Discussion: Monday Note
Josh Jackson / Paste:
Paste announces Paste Quarterly, a print magazine with a vinyl album in each issue, for $20/issue or $70/year, launching March 2017  —  Today, Paste announces a return to print with Paste Quarterly—a luxurious print magazine with the new vinyl Paste Sampler—launching March of 2017.
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.
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