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Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
New audio and video technologies that can easily recreate any person's likeness will make fake stories harder to detect — What we saw in the 2016 election is nothing compared to what we need to prepare for in 2020. — Less than a month after Donald Trump was improbably elected …
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Washington Post, The Verge, @emilybell, The Huffington Post, Hot Air, mathbabe, The Wrap and Mediaite
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Melania Trump wins the first round in a libel suit she filed against a Maryland blogger who claimed she worked as a “high-end escort” — First Lady Melania Trump prevailed Friday in the first round of a libel suit she filed against a Maryland blogger over a report he published …
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@drudge_report, @joshgerstein, AOL, LawNewz, @rmac18, @eriqgardner, @mattdrange, @johnjcook, @fordm, @hadas_gold and @politico
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Belo's Dallas Morning News is cutting 25 newsroom jobs and outsourcing print production to Gatehouse Media — The Dallas Morning News announced late Thursday that it would outsource the design of its print newspaper and cut 25 newsroom jobs. Newspaper chain Gatehouse Media …
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Dallas Morning News, @scmitchp, @charlesapple, @wneff and @carolineduke
Lauren Katz / Vox:
Q&A with Lauren Naturale, the person behind the Merriam-Webster dictionary's sassy Twitter account — White House counselor Kellyanne Conway coined a new term this weekend: “alternative facts.” And the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a 186-year-old authority on English language use, had to weigh in.
Mădălina Ciobanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Discourse Media to focus on six issues, including gender, welfare, and Canadian economy over next 12 months as the company rebrands with a new digital presence — In 2017, the media company's coverage will be focused on six issues, including gender, welfare and energy poverty
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Kara Swisher / Recode:
Sources: Snap to publicly file for IPO late next week, which likely means a March IPO — The social communications company's current valuation is $25 billion, said sources. — According to sources, Snap Inc. plans to publicly file for its much-anticipated initial public offering late next week.
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VentureBeat, The Drum, @karaswisher, Mashable, Bloomberg, Business Insider, TechCrunch and The Next Web
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
New study finds the use of warnings on fake stories alongside real news can mitigate the spread of misinformation — Research conducted by social psychologists at Cambridge University in the UK, and Yale and George Mason in the US, offers a potential strategy for mitigating the spread …
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Sources: NBC is canceling the third hour of Today to make way for Megyn Kelly, who starts in September and will take over the 9AM or 10AM slot — More On: — NBC is canceling the third hour of “Today” to make way for new star Megyn Kelly, sources exclusively confirm to Page Six.
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@mattgertz, @pagesix, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Jezebel, @bryanwesttv, @pagesixemily, @connortryan, @samimain and TVNewser
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Prosecutors drop charges against Vocativ's Evan Engel, arrested at inauguration protests and represented by top Washington lawyer; cases pending for 5 others — WASHINGTON — Prosecutors announced on Friday that they had dropped a criminal case against a journalist arrested amid protests …
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Vocativ, @zoetillman, @chrisgeidner, Raw Story and US News
H.G. Watson / j-source.ca:
NYT hires Toronto Star columnist Catherine Porter as its Toronto bureau chief; a Times editor says the paper has 44K subs in Canada, a 47% increase since 2015 — By Dylan C. Robertson — The New York Times has hired its Toronto Bureau Chief. — Toronto Star columnist Catherine Porter …
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Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
Recode's Ina Fried joins Axios Media, founded by Politico alumni, as chief tech correspondent — Axios Media — a new media venture founded by former Politico executives — is beefing up its tech team with the new hiring of longtime reporter Ina Fried as its chief tech correspondent in San Francisco.
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@danprimack, @pkafka, @techcrunch, @mikeisaac, @khart, @alexislloyd and @jgreendc
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
MuckRock's Slack channel devoted to FOIA and Trump has grown to 1.5K+ journalists from national and local newsrooms in the US in about a week — A few days before President Trump's inauguration, MuckRock opened up a Slack channel to help journalists better cover him and his administration.
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Fortune, @poynter, @jenniferbrandel and @firstdraftnews
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