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Doris Truong / Washington Post:
Right-wing bloggers falsely accuse an editor of taking photos of Cabinet candidate Rex Tillerson's notes during a hearing break; editor wasn't there — What it's like to be a the center of a fake-news conspiracy theory. — There's a joke among Asian Americans that people think we all look the same.
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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Texas congressman Randy Weber says CNN reporter Jim Acosta was “disrespectful” to Trump during press briefing and “should be fired” — The day after Donald Trump refused to take a question from CNN reporter Jim Acosta at a press conference, calling the network …
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The Daily Beast:
Corey Lewandowski, former Trump campaign manager and CNN commentator, lands a job as a political commentator at One America News Network — Corey Lewandowski—Donald Trump's former campaign manager who bruised a female political reporter, lied about it, got fired, then landed …
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Dave McNary / Variety:
CIR announces Glassbreaker Films to support female documentarians and provide training in journalism to high schoolers in San Francisco — The Center for Investigative Reporting is launching Glassbreaker Films as an initiative to support women in documentary filmmaking, Variety has learned exclusively.
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Pandora announces it's laying off 7% of its US workforce, excluding Ticketfly group, in Q1 2017 in a bid to reduce costs — Music streaming service Pandora is going to reduce its workforce by 7% in Q1 of 2017, the company announced Thursday after the close of the markets.
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Natt Garun / The Verge:
YouTube launches Super Chat in beta, letting viewers pay to pin comments on live streams, with a broad rollout on January 31 — But you'll have to do your own troll patrol — YouTube today is announcing a new feature to help creators monetize when they go live.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Most readers want reporters and experts to contribute to comment sections, such as clarifying factual questions, survey of 12K readers on 20 sites shows — For all the easy talk of garbage fires and troll-infested swamps, most commenters who read and weigh in on news stories online appear to want company …
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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
BuzzFeed sold more than $25K worth of “failing pile of garbage” merchandise on Wednesday and will donate all proceeds to the Committee to Project Journalists — BuzzFeed sold more than $25,000 worth of “failing pile of garbage” merchandise on Wednesday and will donate all the proceeds …
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Teddy Amenabar / Washington Post:
The Washington Post will launch a weekly Friday afternoon newsletter, Read These Comments, dedicated to the best reader comments — On Friday, we're launching a weekly newsletter dedicated to the best conversations and comments on The Washington Post. And I can't wait to get started.
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Max Willens / Digiday:
The Atlantic generates more than 25% of its traffic by capitalizing on older content, while Refinery29 generates 35% and Thrillist generates 40% — A couple years ago, publishers decided they had to start wringing more money out of their old content. Today, some of them are practically selling …
Amanda Taub / New York Times:
Research say Americans' bias against the political party they oppose is so strong that it acts as a partisan prism for facts, which fuels the rise of fake news — In his farewell address as president Tuesday, Barack Obama warned of the dangers of uncontrolled partisanship.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Josh Benson and Tom McGeveran, the founders of Capital New York which was later sold to Politico, are leaving Politico; Joseph Schatz will lead Politico States — Josh Benson and Tom McGeveran, who founded the politics, culture and media site Capital New York in 2010 before selling it to Politico in 2013, are leaving the company.
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