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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” — New York Times public editor Liz Spayd said Friday night that she believed certain tweets authored …
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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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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.
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 real-life consequences of a made-up conspiracy theory swirling around a popular D.C. pizzeria became all too real when a gunman walked into the venue Sunday afternoon.
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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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bookforum.com, Mashable and Mediaite
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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Mediaite, @hadas_gold, @poniewozik and @mlcalderone
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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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 …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Inside the symbiotic relationship between Trump and Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who talk to the president-elect a few times a week — While critics lash out, MSNBC's morning talker builds a pipeline to Trump Tower. — The on-again, off-again relationship between Donald Trump …
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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 …
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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