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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
New York Times stands by story saying Cabinet nominee Rick Perry “knew almost nothing” about Energy Department five weeks ago, just after being offered position — The New York Times is standing by its story about former Texas Gov. Rick Perry's nomination as energy secretary …
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Four examples of how Trump coverage is flawed, including a thinly sourced NYT report on Rick Perry and a WaPo headline mocking Sonny Perdue's religion — One may have hoped that the media would respond to their 2016 failures and resulting lack of credibility by reforming.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
As Trump prepares to take office, an analysis of where journalists went wrong in covering his campaign — On Friday at noon, a Category 5 political cyclone that few journalists saw coming will deposit Donald Trump atop the Capitol Building, where he'll be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.
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Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Wayne Barrett, who spent 37 years at the Village Voice investigating developers, landlords, and politicians, dies at 71 — Wayne Barrett, the muckraking Village Voice columnist who carved out a four-decade career taking on developers, landlords and politicians, among them Donald J. Trump …
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / WWD:
NYT, WaPo, and BuzzFeed aren't allowing their reporters to attend the Women's March as private citizens, while fashion mags don't see it as a problem — Should media organizations let staffers attend the march if they aren't covering it? — For many in the media, this election year …
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Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:
The Players' Tribune, co-founded by Derek Jeter in 2014, raises $40M in new round led by IVP, bringing total funding to $58M — Derek Jeter just hit another home run—in securing startup financing, that is. — The former New York Yankees shortstop co-founded The Players' Tribune …
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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Facebook unblocks RT after 20-hour ban from posting articles, photos, and videos, after the publication had allegedly run a pirated stream of Obama's presser — In a surprise move, RT (formerly known as Russia Today) has been banned from posting articles, photos, and videos to Facebook.
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Carlos Slim to launch TV channel called Nuestra Visión, “Our Vision” in English, for Mexican audience in US, with news, movies, and sports programming — Carlos Slim in 82 Seconds — Telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim has announced his intention to launch a channel tailored …
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Quartz ends three-year-old Next Billion conference, lays off three, will focus on projects like new subscription business — It will focus on projects like a new subscription business instead. — Quartz, the digital business news publisher, is going to stop putting on a high-end technology conference.
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Ovetta Wiggins / Washington Post:
Cameron Harris, creator of a fake news site, is fired as a Maryland GOP legislative aide after NYT interview reveals his role in bogus anti-Clinton news — A Republican legislative aide in Maryland who was behind a fake news site that accused Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of election-rigging was fired Wednesday.
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
LA Weekly is up for sale, Voice Media Group announces, as part of a realignment that began when a new ownership group took over four years ago — The owners of the LA Weekly announced today that the venerable Los Angeles alt weekly is the chain's next paper to be offered for sale.
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Slate's membership service, Slate Plus, has shot up 46% to 26.7K members since the election; new revenue will fund free content including big investigations — Trump is turning out to be good business for Slate. — Along with other news organizations, the culture and politics site …
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