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12:40 PM ET, January 25, 2017

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The Huffington Post:
Sources: supervisors have frozen public communications at DHHS, EPA, and USDA's research arm as new Trump administration takes over  —  Staff have been told to stop talking to Congress and the press.  —  WASHINGTON Multiple federal agencies have told their employees to cease communications …
Richard Gonzales / NPR:
NPR's Senior VP for News, Michael Oreskes, says NPR will not use the word “lie” to describe Trump's false claims as doing so would drive away listeners  —  There's an active debate inside newsrooms, and particularly within the NPR newsroom, about how to characterize the statements …
James Warren / Poynter:
New York Times:
Legal experts say the First Amendment provides limited protection to the press; with few legal safeguards, reporters have relied on public goodwill, tradition  —  When President Trump declared on Saturday that reporters are “among the most dishonest human beings on earth,” it was not the first time he had disparaged the press.
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Four more journalists face felony charges after being arrested while covering unrest at US inauguration  —  A documentary producer, a photojournalist, a live-streamer and a freelance reporter facing up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted  —  Four more journalists …
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:   UK union the National Union of Journalists calls on its members to tweet directly at Trump condemning the arrests of six journalists in recent days
Alison Griswold / Quartz:
The World Economic Forum treated “fake news” as a human rights issue as its Global Future Council on Human Rights will spend the next two years examining it  —  On Jan. 17, more than 100 people crowded into the Kirchner Museum in Davos, Switzerland, for a panel on the ailing state of global trust.
Discussion: @alisongriswold and @dangillmor
Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land:
Google's 2016 “Bad Ads Report”: 1.7B ads removed compared to 780M in 2015, 200 publishers banned from AdSense for fake news  —  In its annual Bad Ads report, Google says it took down more than double the number of ads in 2016 that it did in 2015 by removing 1.7 billion ads, compared to the 780 million removed in 2015.
Discussion: Forbes, Adweek, Recode and Ad Age
NorthJersey.com:
North Jersey Media Group announces more layoffs, will be giving notices to 141 employees by the end of the week  —  North Jersey Media Group announced Monday a restructuring in several of its departments, the latest step in a major strategic reorganization that was unveiled in September.
vogue.co.uk:
British Vogue's Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Shulman is stepping down after more than 25 years, departing the role this summer; a successor will be named soon  —  ALEXANDRA SHULMAN, editor-in-chief of British Vogue for more than 25 years, is stepping down.  Shulman intends to leave her role this summer.
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Survey says 55% of American adults consume news on Facebook but just 18% trust news on Facebook all or most of the time  —  Only 18% of people surveyed said they trust news on Facebook all or most of the time.  —  A majority of American adults say they consumed news on Facebook in the past month …
Discussion: @kubremner and Business Insider, Thanks:@steverubel
 
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