Mediagazer: Weather Channel hits back at Breitbart for using its video to cast doubt on climate change in story promoted online by U.S. House committee (Oliver Darcy/Business Insider)

10:20 PM ET, December 6, 2016

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Lydia Polgreen, editorial director of NYT Global, is named editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, succeeding Arianna Huffington — The New York Times' “rising star” becomes the site's second newsroom leader, following founder Arianna Huffington. — NEW YORK Lydia Polgreen …

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New York Times:

Sources: Trump fired Michael G. Flynn Jr., the son of senior security adviser Michael Flynn, for using Twitter to promote fake news related to Pizzagate — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday fired one of his transition team's staff members, Michael G. Flynn …

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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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:

Weather Channel hits back at Breitbart for using its video to cast doubt on climate change in story promoted online by U.S. House committee — The Weather Channel on Tuesday skewered Breitbart after one of its videos appeared in a story which aimed to cast doubt on the science of climate change.

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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:

Ipsos survey of 3,015 US adults shows fake news headlines fooled people about 75% of the time — Fake news headlines fool American adults about 75% of the time, according to a large-scale new survey conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs for BuzzFeed News. — The survey also found that people …

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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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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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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”

Nick Baumann / The Huffington Post:

FBI investigates joke about “destroying trump ballots” made on Twitter by the Huffington Post's Nick Baumann — Seriously? Seriously. — Senior Enterprise Editor, The Huffington Post — This is a story about how the FBI came to investigate a joke I tweeted about fake news.

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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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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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Andrew Griffin / The Independent:
YouTuber PewDiePie threatened to delete his channel because fewer people are seeing his videos and suggested the site was penalizing him because he's white

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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.

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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.