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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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Washington Post offers Chrome extension that fact-checks Trump's tweets — On Friday morning, President-elect Donald Trump took a new tack in his war on the Russia hacking issue. … As our Dave Weigel noted, this isn't really accurate. There was nothing illegal at play …
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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.
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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David Skok / Nieman Lab:
Publishers could use machine learning, predictive and anticipatory analytics to give readers real-time, user-specific options instead of outdated paywalls — For over a decade, digital publishers have been wrestling with an existential strategic question: Should we pursue consumer or advertising revenue as our primary revenue stream?
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Molly de Aguiar / Nieman Lab:
Philanthropists for news should provide operating support with no strings attached and encourage newsrooms to take creative risks, collaborate with partners — 2017 is the year that philanthropy stops asking, “Why should we fund news and information?” and starts asking, “How do we get started?”
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 …
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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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.
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