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Dana Eisenberg / Mediaite:
Meryl Streep at Golden Globes blasts Trump for mocking disabled reporter and calls for support of The Committee to Protect Journalists — Meryl Streep was honored with a lifetime achievement award at tonight's Golden Globes, and she used her speech to call out Donald Trump and defend Hollywood, foreigners, and the press.
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Review finds 50+ examples of plagiarism from numerous sources in 2012 book by Trump national security pick Monica Crowley — By Andrew Kaczynski, design by Tal Yellin — Conservative author and television personality Monica Crowley, whom Donald Trump has tapped for a top national security …
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@rmconservative, @mikegrunwald, @judell, @andybechtel, iMediaEthics, Newser and The Week
Alex Heath / Business Insider:
Martin Shkreli suspended from Twitter for harassing freelance journalist Lauren Duca, after Duca tweeted screenshots to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey — Twitter suspended Martin Shkreli's account on Sunday following his trolling of freelance journalist Lauren Duca.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The term “fake news” has lost its meaning, now being used as a catch-all insult to peddle agendas, so we should retire it and call a lie a lie and a hoax a hoax — When Jim DeMint wanted to dis a TV interviewer's suggestion that Obamacare has merits as well as flaws …
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@mantzarlis, @earleyedition, @daviduberti, @hilmarschmundt and @simonhurtz
Pagan Kennedy / New York Times:
About 400 out of 1,000+ organizations contacted by Sleeping Giants' social media campaign have vowed to remove Breitbart News from future digital ad buys — One day in late November, an earth and environmental science professor named Nathan Phillips visited Breitbart News for the first time.
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Breitbart, @keitholbermann, @simonostrovsky, New York Times and @govhowarddean
Max Fisher / New York Times:
How Russian hackers steered Western media coverage with stolen documents and PR efforts via Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks — As the dust settles on Russian interference in the United States election, journalists are confronting an aspect that has received less scrutiny than the hacking itself …
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@nspector4, AP News, bookforum.com, @profcarroll, @im_pulse, @max_fisher, @mlcalderone, @lwoodhouse, @mikeisaac, @max_fisher, @rprose, New Yorker and Washington Post
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Obama White House veterans, including Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor, launch Crooked Media, with a new podcast called Pod Save America, partly to counter Trump — With Donald Trump about to enter the White House, they just don't feel like “keepin' it 1600” anymore.
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Politico, The Huffington Post, @raju and New York Magazine
Agence France-Presse:
German media, politicians warn against spike in distorted or fake news after Breitbart story alleges crowd chanting ""Allahu Akbar" set church on fire — Country's politicians warn against fake news after Breitbart website said group chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ vandalised church on New Year's Eve
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: Observer publisher Jared Kushner to be appointed as a White House senior adviser — Good morning — again; 11 days to President Trump. Welcome to the debut edition of Axios AM: Mike's Top 10, a pre-dawn quick read from Axios, our new media company covering the collision and convergence of business, tech, media and politics.
Christopher Zara / Backchannel:
How the “safe harbor” provision of the 1996 Telecommunications Act allowed the modern internet to flourish, and why it's under attack — How “safe harbor” turned into a protector of privilege. — For Airbnb, suing American cities had become something of a monthly ritual.
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The Guardian and Memex 1.1
Matthew Strauss / Pitchfork:
Nielsen: US on-demand music streaming up 76% to 250B+ streams in 2016, becoming the dominant form of music consumption with 38% of the market — Streaming consumption beat digital sales for the first time in history, according to new Nielsen report — It's official: according …
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Los Angeles Times, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Tech Portal, Reuters, The FADER and CNET
Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
SoundCloud's filing in UK: losses up 30.9% to $52M while revenues grew 21.6% to $22M in 2015; Universal, Sony, and Warner now own stakes in SoundCloud — SoundCloud's losses grew faster than its revenues in 2015 - with the company now admitting that, should its subscription service flop, its funding may run dry this year.
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Fast Company, The FADER, Yahoo, Bloomberg and The Verge