Mediagazer: Molotov, a free app that allows users to watch 70 free channels in France and bookmark shows in the cloud for alerts and later viewing, raises $23M (Chris O'Brien/VentureBeat)

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Facebook discloses more engagement measurement errors; some of the faulty stats were used by The New York Times and BuzzFeed in their stories about fake news — Facebook misreported engagement numbers for links and live videos and is refining the ad reach estimates it shows advertisers.

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Sophia Tesfaye / Salon:

Online media outlet Right Side Broadcasting Network, called Trump TV by some, plans to expand to 24-hour operation — Can Trump grant the online channel dedicated to his campaign into the White House without proper credentials? — The conservative online media outlet Right Side Broadcasting Network …

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Michael Rosenwald / Columbia Journalism Review:

Online news may never reach print's revenue and readership, meaning publishers must rethink digital vs. paper assumptions, including reader willingness to pay — Roger Fidler is a forefather of digital journalism. In the early 1980s, he wrote and illustrated an essay on the future of news.

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

The Blaze suspends reporter Jason Buttrill over claim he shot at ISIS fighters, recalls him to the US, after initially publishing a story detailing the incident — The Blaze has recalled and suspended a researcher who while in Iraq said he fired shots at ISIS fighters, and later proudly publicized his actions.

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Jeff Schogol / Military Times:
The Blaze reporter Jason Buttrill criticized after posing with sniper rifle and shooting at ISIS combatants in Mosul

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Damien Gayle / The Guardian:

Sunday Times television and restaurant critic AA Gill dies at 62, weeks after revealing he had cancer — Sunday Times journalist dies three weeks after revealing he had been diagnosed with ‘an embarrassment of cancer, the full English’ — The award-winning journalist and restaurant critic AA Gill …

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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:

Trump's denunciation of individuals on Twitter, which often leads to harassment by his followers, tests the limits of Twitter's rules against incitement — Twitter declined BuzzFeed News' request for comment. — Last night President-elect Donald Trump used his Twitter account to criticize Chuck Jones …

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Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:

By refusing to admit that Trump is ever right, fact-checkers, whose analyses are frequently dubious, have rendered themselves untrustworthy — Ridding ourselves of fake news requires having media outlets that are actually worth listening to... Despite having decisively won the presidential election …

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Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:

Molotov, a free app that allows users to watch 70 free channels in France and bookmark shows in the cloud for alerts and later viewing, raises $23M — Paris-based startup Molotov has raised $23 million and launched a service that is poised to revolutionize the way we watch live TV, doing what Apple has tried but thus far failed to do.

Discussion: TechCrunch

Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:

Sources: Annapurna Pictures is developing a film about the Roger Ailes scandal which will focus on Megyn Kelly and other alleged victims — Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures has scooped up a pitch from Charles Randolph about the former Fox News chairman. — First, there was a miniseries …

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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Despite an offer of more than $20M to stay on at Fox News, sources say Megyn Kelly is still fielding bids from ABC, NBC, and CNN

Discussion: Variety, Ad Age, Mediaite, @brianstelter and TVNewser

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

Two sites named on blacklist of news sites peddling Russian propaganda featured by WaPo demand retraction; one, Naked Capitalism, threatens to sue the newspaper — The Washington Post—whose coverage of Watergate four decades ago angered the powers that be, toppled a president …

Discussion: Forbes, The Intercept, iMediaEthics, @daviduberti, The Nation, naked capitalism, @ggreenwald, @adamjohnsonnyc, @esotericcd, @mathewi and KSFO-AM

Ian Burrell / The Drum:

How vintage picture agency Magnum Photos is reinventing itself for the Instagram age at 70, with a new online shop, a relaunched website, photo projects, more — The Instagram page of Magnum Photos, the world's most famous photographic agency, is the point where the old and new worlds of still imagery collide.

Micah Singleton / The Verge:

Sources: Spotify testing new feature, Jump In, that lets free users play songs on-demand in certain playlists, but negotiations with labels may delay release — But will the labels go for it? — Spotify is testing a new feature called Jump In that would let its free mobile users …

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Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
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