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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.
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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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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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:
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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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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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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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 …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab app is experimenting with iOS 10 expanded push notifications to cover Trump's inauguration — Plus a look back at some Inauguration Day digital innovations of the recent past. — As Donald Trump takes the oath of office Friday and parades down Pennsylvania Avenue …
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@gdnmobilelab, @guardian, @niemanlab, @guardian and The Guardian
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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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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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Since Meryl Streep's plug at the Golden Globes, the Committee to Protect Journalists has received $300K from about 2K individual donors — THE MORNING MEDIA PROFILE: CPJ'S AMERICAN MOMENT - “This is new,” Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, was telling Morning Media on the phone yesterday.
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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.
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