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Max Willens / Digiday:
Q&A with Michael Barbaro, host of The Daily, the New York Times' daily podcast with 15-20 minute episodes that launches Wednesday — In a bid to build the New York Times into a habit, the Grey Lady is getting increasingly audible. On Wednesday, the Times will launch its first daily podcast …
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Nieman Lab, New York Times and Business Wire
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
WSJ EIC Gerry Baker instructed staff to stop calling countries banned by Trump as majority Muslim, then retreats to say term should not be only description used — Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerry Baker has instructed editors to stop referring to the countries targeted …
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Source: WSJ editor's directive over coverage of Trump's immigration order has caused newsroom tensions, with Baker accused of “whitewashing” coverage — There's some upset in The Wall Street Journal newsroom over a directive from editor in chief Gerry Baker to stop using the phrase …
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The Daily Caller, Poynter, @danpfeiffer, @mikeisaac, @morningmoneyben, @mlcalderone and @joepompeo
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook is now training its News Feed algorithm to detect authenticity of posts to reduce the promotion of spammy, fake, and sensational stories — Facebook is prioritizing “authentic” content in News Feed with a ranking algorithm change that detects and promotes content “that people consider genuine …
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Facebook, Engadget, @rafat, @kantrowitz, Adweek and The Daily Caller
Lewis Wallace:
Marketplace reporter Lewis Wallace, a transgender man, fired over personal blog post questioning neutrality and objectivity in the Trump era — On Monday I was fired from my job as a journalist at Marketplace, where I have worked as a news reporter since May 2016.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Comparing mainstream coverage of Trump's ban with the right-wing media's, which used overwhelmingly positive headlines — President Trump's response Sunday afternoon to criticism of his executive orders on refugees and immigration accused the news media of getting the story wrong. There was no “Muslim ban.”
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Vox, Mother Jones, The Guardian, Politico and NPR
Todd Spangler / Variety:
WSJ: Facebook building video app for Apple TV and other set-top boxes as it ramps up its original programming efforts — Facebook is developing an app for set-top boxes including Apple TV, as a way to bring longer-form video content — and video ads — to big-screen TVs in consumers' living rooms, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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The Next Web, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, Pocket-lint, Engadget, AppleInsider, Mashable, @jackmarshall, MacRumors, VentureBeat, The Verge and Business Insider
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Facebook announces new partnerships with third-party ad-tech firms to improve quality of measurement data and show marketers how its ads perform compared to TV — Facebook is refining its ad measurement offerings to give marketers more information about their campaigns on its ad platform.
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Facebook, Variety, TechCrunch and Adweek
Peter Kafka / Recode:
New FCC chair Ajit Pai quietly removed a proposal to force pay-TV operators to open-source their set-top boxes from the FCC's agenda last week — The cable guys win one, courtesy of a Trump appointee. — Looks like the cable guys won't have to open their boxes after all.
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Forbes, Home Media Magazine, TechCrunch, Broadcasting & Cable, Variety and Radio & Television …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Interview with Jeff Jobe, a Kentucky publisher and Trump supporter, scheduled to be one of first four journalists to Skype in for a White House press briefing — Jeff Jobe is less than 24 hours away from the most high-profile moment of his career. — The publisher of six weekly community newspapers …
Steve Friess / Columbia Journalism Review:
Inside the Talent Network, the Washington Post's 2.5K strong stringer hub that includes freelancers from 50 states and 52 countries — At the height of the 2016 war between presidential candidate Donald Trump and the media, when the campaign withheld press credentials to his rallies …
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
How media technology and Donald Trump have changed the way journalists think about describing falsehoods — People lie. Yes, even presidents lie. Especially presidents, you might argue. And yet there's a long history in journalism of being very, very careful about saying so.
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@grahamdavida, @jdonath23 and @adriennelaf
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New Yorker's website publishes 15 pieces a day, attracting 30M+ uniques in November 2016, up 155% year-on-year — Nick Thompson was on his way to the subway when he got an email from his boss, New Yorker Editor David Remnick. — The subject line? “Morning piece.”
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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
In internal memo, Fox execs James and Lachlan Murdoch say they're helping staff affected by the Muslim ban and note the company was founded by immigrants — 21st Century Fox executives Lachlan and James Murdoch on Monday addressed employees about President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration.
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Media Matters for America, Bloomberg, AOL, @reaganbattalion, @johnnyikon, @oliverdarcy and @oliverdarcy
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Hamza Shaban / BuzzFeed:
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos' company, Amazon, joins Washington State's lawsuit against Trump's Muslim ban
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos' company, Amazon, joins Washington State's lawsuit against Trump's Muslim ban
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Business Insider, @amzam and @macloo