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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
News orgs including The New York Times and Axios defend the off-the-record event with Donald Trump, say OTR is a good way to get closer to the truth — Reporters hung out with Donald Trump over the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, though American news consumers won't be reading too much about the event.
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@peteymenz and @erikwemple
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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
Reporters who attended Trump's off-the-record briefing on Sunday evening receive Twitter backlash after 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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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:
Media outlets, which are at risk of getting played by Trump, need to challenge the President-elect instead of going off the record with him — How quickly we forget. Just a few months ago, Donald Trump was conducting an unprecedented attack on the mainstream press by keeping them in pens at his rallies …
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Washington Post, @mathewi, FishbowlDC, @jayrosen_nyu, @mathewi, @msbrumfield, @jzheel, @dmedialab, @sulliview, @mathewi and The Rural Blog
Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
Inside the Desperate, Year-Long Hunt to Find Donald Trump's Rumored Apprentice Outtakes — Throughout the election, both the media and the Clinton camp were obsessed by outtakes from the reality show, amid allegations of hair-raising things said by the now president-elect.
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The Daily Beast and Mediaite
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Eric Mandel / MyNorthwest.com:
Comedian Tom Arnold claims to have unreleased footage of Trump's outtakes on The Apprentice, says they feature the President-elect using racist language — While visiting with KIRO Radio's Dori Monson on Friday to talk about his upcoming performance in Seattle, comedian Tom Arnold revealed a bombshell …
Jack Mirkinson / Fusion:
Longtime AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici praised for astonishing courage as he documented the murder of Russia's ambassador to Turkey — The news that Russia's ambassador to Turkey had been murdered reverberated around the world on Monday. Beyond the obviously grim nature of the news …
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New York Times, AP News, @mikiebarb, @nxthompson, The Definitive Source, BAGnewsNotes, @byrontau, Mashable, @rcallimachi, @thegarance, @davidwchen, TheBlaze, The Week, @samsifton, @greenhousenyt, @jwpetersnyt, @cklosterman, @fusion, Mediaite, New York Magazine, @hirokotabuchi, @estwebber, @mlcalderone, @dvnjr, @malonebarry and @micahgrimes
Politico:
Memo: Politico's Editorial Director Blake Hounshell appointed editor of Politico Magazine — FIRST PERSON - “Witness to an assassination: AP photographer captures attack,” by Burhan Ozbilici in Ankara: “The event seemed routine, the opening of an exhibit of photographs of Russia.
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FishbowlNY
Jacob Soll / Politico:
Despite media handwringing, fake news has been around since news became a concept 500 years ago with the invention of print, often provoking violence — Bogus news has been around a lot longer than real news. And it's left a lot of destruction behind. — The fake news hit Trent, Italy, on Easter Sunday, 1475.
Discussion:
bookforum.com and Media Myth Alert
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen to acquire Gracenote from Tribune Media for $560M; the proceeds will be used to repay debts, Tribune Media CEO Peter Liguori says — “We are pleased to be streamlining our company so that we can focus even more intently on seizing future opportunities for our local television …
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Deadline, Reuters, TVNewsCheck, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, The Hour and Nielsen
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Twitter tests breaking news push notifications, sends news updates on the Berlin Christmas market attack and Fidel Castro's death — Twitter wants to be a news app, having recently moved to that category from the “social networking” category in the iOS App Store.
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Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, @bri_sacks and @taylor_soper
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Vanity Fair reporter Tina Nguyen, who skewered the Trump Grill, says she was “shocked” by Trump's tweet and feared being doxxed by his supporters — Choking down “flaccid, gray Szechuan dumplings” and dealing with bathrooms that “transport diners to the experience of desperately searching …
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@mattdpearce, @slate, @leemwilliams, @bypetevernon, @adamosiason, @cjr, min Online, Vanity Fair, The Daily Caller and New York Times
Tanzina Vega / CNNMoney:
How newsrooms can foster diversity by hiring outside of obvious silos, developing talent from within, confronting internal biases, and more — Hollywood inequality is a top down problem — On Sunday, the New York Times public editor Liz Spayd wrote a column that cut deep to the bone …
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Nieman Lab, Hot Air, @martinepowers, Fortune, @byheatherlong, @jamilsmith, FTVLive, @carimahwheat, @wesleylowery, @zeninjor, @cnn, @whitneydawn, @tanzinavega, TheBlaze and @traciglee
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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