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8:50 PM ET, January 20, 2017

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Columbia Journalism Review:
How newsrooms are gearing up to cover the Trump presidency and why media is entering one of its most challenging periods of the past century  —  Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio, on March 1, 2016.  (Ty Wright / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
NYT was too timid in posting stories on Trump-Russia ties pre-election, with FBI discouraging publication and with stories posted only after government action  —  LATE fall was a frantic period for New York Times reporters covering the country's secretive national security apparatus.
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed:
David Brock's True Blue Media, billed as the left's answer to Breitbart, hires watchdog investigative reporter David Sirota as its new CEO  —  WASHINGTON — True Blue Media, pitching itself as the left's answer to Breitbart, has picked an investigative reporter critical of Republicans and Wall Street Democrats alike as its new CEO.
Politico:
Sources: President Trump will tap GOP commissioner Ajit Pai, a fierce critic of net neutrality, to lead the FCC  —  President Donald Trump will tap Ajit Pai as his pick to lead the FCC in the new administration, elevating the sitting GOP commissioner to the top spot overseeing …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
SEC filing: AT&T gained 200K+ paying video subscribers in Q4, “entirely driven by DirecTV Now”; DirecTV Now launched on November 30  —  Telco also discloses $1 billion charge in quarter related to pension and postemployment benefit plans  —  AT&T added more than 200,000 …
Paul Resnikoff / Digital Music News:
Norwegian newspaper: Tidal publicly claimed 3M members in March 2016, but paid music labels for just 850K subscribers a month later  —  How many subscribers does TIDAL really have?  A new study is now accusing the Jay Z-owned service of completely fabricating their numbers.  And not by a little bit.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube says it found an error that inflated lifetime view counts on channels on 21 days in past 6 months, will issue a patch in the next few days  —  YouTube said that it has discovered an error in how it tabulates lifetime view counts on channels — a bug that may have inflated total video views to date.
Discussion: support.google.com and Tubefilter
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Business Insider is launching a sub-Saharan version of its site in conjunction with Ringier Africa Digital Publishing on January 23  —  Business Insider announced Friday that it will launch a sub-Saharan version of its site in conjunction with Ringier Africa Digital Publishing.  —  The site will debut on Jan. 23.
Corinne Grinapol / FishbowlDC:
Ozy Media launching year-long project, States of the Nation, with politics reporter Nick Fouriezos spending a week reporting in every state, starting January 22  —  There are 52 weeks in a year and 50 states in our country, a math that allows OZY Media to take a year to explore what's happening …
Discussion: @neil_s_parmar
 
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Exit interview with outgoing FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on net neutrality, privacy, cybersecurity, zero-rating, closed captioning, and more
Discussion: @freepress
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Brian Flood / The Wrap:
Fusion TV launches Fusion Fights, a cross-platform project elevating social justice issues that impact young and diverse communities overlooked by the press
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Nielsen: Tucker Carlson averaged just under 3M viewers in his first week in Fox's primetime line-up, 10% more than the 2.72M Megyn Kelly averaged last year
Discussion: @marksimoneny
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Wayne Barrett, who spent 37 years at the Village Voice investigating developers, landlords, and politicians, dies at 71
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Paresh Dave / Wired:
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Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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