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Doug Lederman / Inside Higher Ed:
UC Berkeley cancels Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos speech after protests turn violent on campus — California campus is latest to be inflamed by protests — reportedly fueled by visiting mob from off the campus — over appearances by the Breitbart writer and provocateur.
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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
The New York Times is launching on Snapchat Discover with a daily weekday edition based on its Morning Briefing for users in the US and Canada — The New York Times is the latest media company to fully embrace Snapchat, the rising social media app owned by Snap.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
The New York Times now has 3M subscribers, adding 276K digital subscribers in Q4 of 2016; total advertising revenue in 2016 still fell by 9% — Precipitous declines in print advertising rocked the newspaper industry last year. And while The New York Times Company recorded significant growth …
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Bob Fernandez / Philly.com:
Thousands of Comcast employees stop work in Philadelphia and other cities to protest Trump's immigration executive order — Thousands of Comcast employees in Philadelphia streamed out of the Comcast Center on Thursday afternoon to protest President Trump's recent executive order on Muslim immigrants and refugees from seven nations.
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Sources: gossip reporter Nikki Finke was about to start a column at Mediaite when her former boss Jay Penske scooped her back up — MORE FROM: — In a dramatic move that may strike more fear in the heart of Hollywood than any President Trump executive order, Nikki Finke is back in business.
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David Sharman / HoldTheFrontPage:
BBC to invest £8m-a-year in 138 new “local democracy reporters” across the UK, with BBC staff working alongside local journalists to produce local news — Scotland will get 20 local democracy reporters while Northern Ireland will get just three under the partnership between …
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Kim Willsher / The Guardian:
A French journalist was forcibly removed from a Marine Le Pen press conference after trying to question the Front National leader over misspent EU funds — Paul Larrouturou forced out after trying to question Front National presidential candidate over ‘misspent’ EU funds
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Simon Houpt / Globe and Mail:
The Canadian government says it has pulled its advertising from Breitbart.com, after determining that the site did not align with its code of value and ethics — The federal government says it has pulled its advertising from Breitbart.com, the so-called alt-right website whose controversial former chairman …
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@slpng_giants, @simonhoupt, @elivalley, @markmackinnon, @jeffjarvis and Mashable
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
How France's Libération is bolstering its fact-checking ahead of an election, with a vertical on the National Front, a database of fake news stories, more — With France getting ready for its own presidential elections in April and May, French political newspaper Libération …
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Nick Statt / The Verge:
Reddit bans r/altright and r/alternativeright subreddits due to repeated violations of content policy — Over doxing — Reddit has decided to ban two high-profile communities of the alt-right over what appears to be the posting and dissemination of personal information, otherwise known as doxing.
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
How The Guardian grew from 15K to 200K paying readers in the past year, and how it plans to reach 1M subscribers by 2019 — The Guardian has made big strides in growing its membership revenue, with the number of paying supporters jumping from 15,000 to just under 200,000 in the past year.
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@kattancock, @elanazak, @digiday, @poynter, @mattcdata, @kfshovlin, @morisy, @digiday and @charliebeckett
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
How the #PressOn campaign urging people to pay for journalism began, supported by celebs, authors, journalists, and more — If you were on Twitter on Wednesday, you might have seen gobs and gobs of people tweeting with the hashtag #PressOn, imploring you to spend money on journalism.
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