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Nancy Gibbs / TIME:
TIME Magazine editor Nancy Gibbs on why Trump was chosen as Person of the Year, says he empowered a hidden electorate and framed tomorrow's political culture — This is the 90th time we have named the person who had the greatest influence, for better or worse, on the events of the year.
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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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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 …
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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.
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 …
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
YouTube has paid over $1B to the music industry in the last year, from advertising alone — In the last year, YouTube has paid out over $1 billion to the music industry from advertising alone, the company revealed on Tuesday. — Bolstered by music subscription revenue …
Asma Khalid / NPR:
NPR's Asma Khalid on the difficulties of being a Muslim reporter covering the 2016 election, facing veiled threats and constant harassment — Sometime in early 2016 between a Trump rally in New Hampshire, where a burly man shouted something at me about being Muslim, and a series …
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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Google search app updated with distinct feeds for upcoming appointments and personalized news such as sports and entertainment, on Android now and iOS soon — Google Now is splitting in two — Google Now launched four years ago with a bold promise: instead of making you search for information you need …
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
News Corp Australia offers journalists voluntary redundancies, will use forced redundancies on 42 staff if quota is not reached, in effort to cut $40M in costs — Company says it will use forced redundancies, if necessary, to reach goal of cutting 42 full-time positions
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple debuts single sign-on for iOS and tvOS with 9 partners including Dish, DirecTV, Sling TV, but is missing big names like Comcast, Charter, Verizon FiOS — But the list of companies supporting the feature at launch is pretty weak — The days of having to enter your cable account login details …
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Michael J. Socolow / Columbia Journalism Review:
On the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, a look at how the event was initially reported shows little has changed in terms of mistakes made covering major events — Nobody knew anything at first. The attack happened far out in the Pacific, on a small remote island.
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
No Small Pulitzer, a project examining 17 Pulitzer wins by newspapers with less than 100K in circulation run by Mizzou journalism students, launched on Tuesday — Every year, Nigel Jaquiss gets calls from college students who want to talk to him about his Pulitzer Prize for their class projects.
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