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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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Sources: Facebook to start testing mid-roll video ad format, share 55% of the revenue with video publishers, same as YouTube — Mark Zuckerberg has been building a video empire. Time to turn it into a business. — Facebook wants to show more ads to people who watch its videos …
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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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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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Axios' Mike Allen denies endorsing Breitbart after social media backlash, says his optimistic words about the current moment in journalism were twisted — There's nothing that delights the folks at Breitbart News more than headlines glorifying Breitbart News.
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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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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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The Washington Post is creating an eight-person rapid response investigations team to supplement its current investigations unit — The Washington Post is creating a rapid-response investigative team that will work closely with all departments in the newsroom, particularly the National staff over the next year or so.
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LA Times management pressured a reporter who wrote a critical story about the newspaper for Los Angeles Magazine to reveal his sources — Here's what two editors said, and our reply — Since Los Angeles magazine published my article “What's the Matter With the L.A. Times?” …
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Amazon Studios picked up its first Golden Globes movie award, for Manchester by the Sea — Amazon Studios, the six-year-old film-and-television production arm of retail giant Amazon Inc., took home two Golden Globes Sunday night out of 11 nominations total.


The Onion's studio division signs three-film development deal with Lionsgate and production company Serious Business — The satirical media brand is partnering with the studio and production company Serious Business to develop multiple projects. — The Onion is looking to get into the movie business.
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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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