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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.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet rips “fairly ridiculous conclusion” in NYT public editor's column on the paper's coverage of Trump and Russia — Executive editors at the New York Times routinely differ with the public editors who deliver less-than-flattering judgments on the work of their colleagues.
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New York Times, Axios and Mother Jones
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Interior Department reactivates Twitter accounts after shutdown following inauguration … The Interior Department re-activated its official Twitter accounts early Saturday after an abrupt shutdown following two shares of tweets that were unsympathetic to President Trump during his inauguration.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter launches archive of Vine videos containing all posts from 2013 through 2017, with a creator spotlight section and Vines grouped by genre and year — Twitter just can't seem to let go of Vine. The company announced last fall it would close the video-sharing community site …
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Medium, Mashable, Engadget and AppleInsider
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Despite Trump's battles with the press, he has always received glowing coverage from the tabloids, which have spread falsehoods about his opponents — Donald Trump's relationship with the reporters who cover him has often been testy. But not all the news coverage of the president-elect has been contentious or critical of late.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox News signs former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, a major backer of Brexit who campaigned for Trump, as a contributor — Fox News has signed former United Kingdom Independence Party leader Nigel Farage as a contributor. — Farage — a major backer of Brexit who campaigned for President-elect Donald Trump
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Politico, Mediaite, @dylanbyers, TheBlaze, @thehill, @ggreenwald and The Guardian
Rebecca Ford / Hollywood Reporter:
Interview with Jason Ropell, who leads Amazon's film efforts, about Sundance Film Festival buying plans, bidding wars, Apple's possible entry into film, more — Jason Ropell also opens up about 'Manchester by the Sea's' success, the challenge in releasing original films and how the executive team makes decisions.
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Fortune
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 …
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Thomson IR, BGR, Ad Age, TechCrunch and Multichannel News
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 …
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The Verge, GeekWire, @tomwheelerfcc, Consequence of Sound, Axios, Motherboard, Engadget, Fortune, Business Insider, Techdirt, Light Reading, Free Press, Recode, Variety, @mcdowelltweet, @karlbode, Deadline, @karlbode, @byersalex, @jonhumbert, @byersalex and @tonyromm
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.
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support.google.com and Tubefilter
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.
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The Verge, Forbes, Variety, RAIN News, Engadget, HotNewHipHop.com and Business Insider
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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Columbia Journalism Review, Mediaite, @daviduberti, @cjr, @cjr, @cjr, @bypetevernon, @daviduberti and Politico
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Michael Massing / The Nation:
To understand what's driving Trump's supporters, editors need to create a series of new beats focusing on religion, blue-collar workers, poverty, and more
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bookforum.com, Editor & Publisher, @jackshafer, @spguaglione, @alicesperi, @gpingersoll and @katrinanation
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.
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@davidsirota, @davidsirota, @ggreenwald, @buzzfeedben, @xeni, @brendannyhan, @olivianuzzi, @lachlan, @nmuscavage, @daviduberti, @alexckaufman, @buzzfeedben, @wgladstone, @mlcalderone and @anthony
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