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Cyra Master / The Hill:
Trump held a 30-minute off-the-record meeting with the press Sunday evening, at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, 140 days after his last press conference — held an off-the-record conversation with reporters on Sunday evening. — While the topics of conversation were not reported, the meeting was confirmed in a presidential pool report.
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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
Reporters who attended Trump's off-the-record briefing on Sunday evening receive Twitter backlash for posing for a photo with the President-elect — On Sunday night, President-elect Donald Trump held a 30-minute, off-the-record chat with his press pool inside his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, FL.
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Knight Foundation:
For the next month until January 19, 2017, the Knight Foundation will match donations from individuals to non-profit news orgs, up to a total of $1.5M — The Knight News Match is a call to action for everyone who believes in quality, trustworthy, in-depth journalism and the role nonprofit …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
November's election and Trump's attacks on media fuel support for trusted, verified journalism — The answer to all the troubling new questions about the future of the news business — how to make money, stop the spread of fake news and reassert a uniform view of reality …
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Charles J. Sykes / New York Times:
Right-wing vilification of the mainstream media has discredited news orgs among some voters, aiding Trump's rise as right-wing news sources promote untruths — MILWAUKEE — After nearly 25 years, I'm stepping down from my daily conservative talk radio show at the end of this month.
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Sources: Jane Pratt, founder of xoJane and xoVain, is leaving Time Inc.; sites will redirect to InStyle.com, though Pratt is seeking investors for properties — Pratt will leave the company by the end of the year, as she looks to find a suitor for xoJane and xoVain. — XoJane.com
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New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, Daily Front Row and Media Wire Daily
Turkey Blocks:
Tor access with the default configuration now widely restricted in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use — The Turkey Blocks internet censorship watchdog has identified and verified that restrictions on the Tor anonymity network and Tor Browser are now in effect throughout Turkey.
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Motherboard, Softpedia News, @arikan, The Next Web and Engadget
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Newspapers failed to compete with Craigslist on price and product quality — It's fun to beat up on Craig Newmark for the end of classifieds, but papers were greedy, too. — The journalistic world's sniping at Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, recommenced yesterday after he announced …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Parse.ly report: Facebook sends publishers 37% of all referral traffic, down from 41.7% a year ago, while Google sends 32%, down from 39.5% — Bad news for publishers who built their strategy on search engine referral traffic: Google is now sending a smaller proportion of visitors to news sites than it did a year ago.
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MediaShift
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, and Bloomberg are all beefing up their White House reporting teams in preparation for Trump's presidency — When President-elect Donald Trump moves into The White House, he's going to have a lot of company. — In the last week …
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Politico
Liz Spayd / New York Times:
The New York Times' newsroom is mostly white, suggesting diversity has not been a priority; Dean Baquet says he's committed to change — ONLY two of the 20-plus reporters who covered the presidential campaign for The New York Times were black. None were Latino or Asian.
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Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ annual report: at least 48 journalists killed in relation to their work in 2016, with outstanding questions about 27 other cases — Also Available in Español, , Français, Português, , Türkçe — Deadly violence against the media eased in 2016 …
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