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Albert Burneko / The Concourse:
BuzzFeed reporters were right to post a dossier with extraordinary claims about President-elect Trump, passed around for weeks at highest levels of government — As you're likely aware by now, yesterday evening BuzzFeed published a dossier of allegations about Donald Trump …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
BuzzFeed stepped over the line when it published unverified smears dressed up as an intelligence report meant to damage Trump — Where does transparency meet irresponsibility? Right about at the line that BuzzFeed's editor Ben Smith approached on Tuesday — and decided to step over in the name of serving citizens' best interests.
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti tells staffers that he supports Ben Smith's decision to post unverified 35-page dossier — BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti told staffers Wednesday that he supported editor in chief Ben Smith's decision to publish an unverified 35-page dossier alleging …
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Seth Kelley / Variety:
Donald Trump calls BuzzFeed “a failing piece of garbage” and refuses to take a question from CNN reporter Jim Acosta, telling him: “You are fake news” — Donald Trump fired multiple shots at the media — particularly BuzzFeed and CNN — on Wednesday during his first press conference in six months.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump filled first press conference in seven months with paid staffers who cheered in response to PEOTUS blasting media — The president-elect packs his news conference with paid aides ready to jeer reporters. — NEW YORK — When Donald Trump gathered the press at Trump Tower 20 months ago …
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
CNN's Jim Acosta says Donald Trump spokesman Sean Spicer told him he could be removed from future press conferences if he challenges PEOTUS again — Following a highly contentious exchange with President-elect Donald Trump at his first press conference since late July, CNN's Jim Acosta gave a rundown of his confrontation with Trump.
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Fidji Simo / Facebook Media:
Facebook introduces the Facebook Journalism Project to collaborate with news organizations on products, offer training to reporters, and try to curb fake news — Facebook is a new kind of platform and we want to do our part to enable people to have meaningful conversations, to be informed and to be connected to each other.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Techdirt's existence is threatened by costs of fighting $15M libel suit brought by Shiva Ayyadurai, represented by Charles Harder, who won against Gawker — As you may have heard, last week we were sued for $15 million by Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple planning push into original TV shows and movies for Apple Music subscribers, hopes to share viewer metrics and demographic data with producers — Apple is planning to build a significant new business in original television shows and movies, a move that could make it a bigger player …
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Nic Newman / Reuters Institute for the Study …:
Reuters 2017 predictions: automated fact-checking, more innovation with chat bots, big year for audio, and experiments with AR and VR but both will disappoint — This year's key developments will centre on fears about how changing technology is affecting the quality of information and the state of our democracy.
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
In his final days as FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler accuses AT&T and Verizon of violating net neutrality over paid data cap exemptions, in a letter to senators — Paid zero-rating in crosshairs, but it won't matter once Trump is president. — With just over a week left as chairman …
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
CBS announces it's closing Newspath offices in New York, Dallas, Chicago, and Charlotte on February 17, affecting about a dozen staffers — CBS has announced it is closing the regional offices of its Newspath affiliate news service in New York, Dallas, Chicago and Charlotte next month.
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