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Jared Kushner says Trump campaign struck deal with Sinclair to give TV chain more access in exchange for interviews airing at all affiliates without commentary — Donald Trump's campaign struck a deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group during the campaign to try and secure better media coverage …
Madeline Conway / Politico:
President Obama scolds media for its focus on hacked emails from Democratic Party officials during the campaign, obscuring other issues — President Barack Obama on Friday chided the news media for its focus on hacked emails from Democratic Party officials during the presidential campaign, calling the coverage “an obsession.”
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
The NYT defends its decision to cover hacked Democratic emails, even if it helped Russia, because the emails had news value independent of the hackers' motives — Managing editor Joseph Kahn says they primarily judge the news value of documents in the public sphere “independent of the motive of the leakers.”
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
Netflix signs content deal with the production house of Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan — Global streaming giant, Netflix has struck a long-term relationship with Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan's production house Red Chillies Entertainment. — Netflix subscribers will have access …
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Nielsen:
Nielsen Scarborough: more than 169M US adults read a newspaper a month, via print, web, or mobile; 81% engage with print product, and 51% read print exclusively — Ever hear the phrase “print is dead”? Well if you check with almost 170 million Americans, they'd tell you that nothing could be farther from the truth.
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
The broader issue driving paranoia over fake news is the realization among mainstream media that they no longer hold the sole power to shape the news agenda — In an 1807 letter to John Norvell, a young go-getter who had asked how to best run a newspaper, Thomas Jefferson penned what today …
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Melody Kramer / Poynter:
Q&A with historians from NPR and University of Louisville, plus the director of Radio Preservation Task Force on mapping the history of US public broadcasts — How many historical radio broadcasts have been lost to history? — Josh Shepperd, an assistant professor of media studies …
Leah Finnegan / The Outline:
Vice reporter James Burns' livestream of his voluntary 30-day stint in solitary confinement is not reporting, it's stunt journalism — The truth cannot be created. — When I was a pretentious college student many years ago I really wanted to be an anthropologist.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Memo: New York Times will vacate at least 8 floors of its building and seek rental income, temporarily moving some staffers including print services amid re-org — The New York Times will vacate eight floors of its midtown headquarters in a bid to make some money and improve its efficiency.
Ken Doctor / Politico:
Parsely report: about 66% of weekend news reading is now done on smartphones and tablets, while only 55% of overall usage is on mobile — What it means that two thirds of weekend news consumption happens on a mobile device — Consider it one more step in the evolution of the desktop computer into an archival paperweight.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
RNC chief strategist Sean Spicer says Trump won't ban news outlets from White House briefing room but will consider altering format of the daily press briefing — A likely candidate to land a top communications job in President-elect Donald Trump's White House said Thursday …
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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Facebook underreported iPhone traffic to Instant Articles tracked by comScore from Sept. 30 to Nov. 30; report says some publishers' numbers affected by 10-20% — Facebook announced on Friday that it had made another measurement error, this time affecting publishers that use its Instant Articles content platform.
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