Mediagazer: Questions asked about the value of presidential press conferences and whether they're outdated, as Trump prepares for his first one in 165+ days (Jeff Greenfield/Politico)

11:25 AM ET, January 11, 2017

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Intelligence experts urge caution about Trump dossier, describing the findings contained in it as “raw” intelligence, with some finding the report dubious — In the hours since a private firm's intelligence document leaked to the web, alleging 35 pages of President-elect Donald …

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Peter Kafka / Recode:

BuzzFeed publishes unverified documents alleging ties between Trump aides and Russian operatives and that Russia has “compromising information” about Trump — So that “Americans can make up their own minds.” — BuzzFeed has published a cache of documents …

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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:

BuzzFeed's decision to publish an unverified report sets a risky precedent for journalism, and will have repercussions if it turns out to be wholly inaccurate — In distributing a set of inflammatory allegations that it admitted it could not vouch for, BuzzFeed sidestepped a basic principle of journalism.

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Politico:

News organizations have known about the Trump dossier for months but reporters at the NYT, Washington Post, and Politico were unable to verify its claims — ABOUT THAT MEMO... Yes, the memo that CNN reported on and the memo that BuzzFeed later posted is salacious. The information is also mostly unverifiable.

Fidji Simo / Facebook Media:

Facebook launches the Facebook Journalism Project to collaborate on news products, offer training and tools for jounalists, and 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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Mathew Ingram / Fortune:

Instagram will put full-screen, auto-playing ads in its Stories feature, which now has 150M daily active users five months after launch — If you're one of the millions of Instagram users who likes the service's recently added “Stories” sharing feature, get ready to see more ads inserted between your friends' clips in the near future.

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Christopher Heine / Adweek:

About 2.7M Twitter users viewed the social network's live stream for the red carpet pre-show for the Golden Globe Awards — Around 2.7 million Twitter users on Sunday evening viewed the digital platform's red carpet livestreaming collaboration with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association …

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Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:

How Medium can beef up its publishing features, with friction-free newsletter and subscription systems, promotional tools, better analytics, more — There is a need for platform such as Medium. Its only way up is monetizing quality using a two-sided, paid-for system. — I am a huge fan of Medium.

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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:

Questions asked about the value of presidential press conferences and whether they're outdated, as Trump prepares for his first one in 165+ days — When President-Elect Donald Trump meets the press on Wednesday— for his first formal news conference in 168 days—the most intriguing questions …

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

US AG nominee Jeff Sessions says he hasn't studied current guidelines for investigations involving media, won't commit to not jailing journalists — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said Tuesday at a confirmation hearing to become the country's next attorney general that he has not studied …

New York Times:

Sources: Fox News personality Juliet Huddy accused Bill O'Reilly and a Fox News executive of trying to derail her career when she rejected their sexual advances — In the weeks after Roger Ailes was ousted as the chairman of Fox News in July, amid a sexual harassment scandal …

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Wikimedia Blog:

Wikimedia Foundation receives $3M grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enable structured data on images, making images more easily searchable — The Wikimedia Foundation, with a US$3,015,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is leading an effort to enable structured data on Wikimedia Commons …

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