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Kristen Mascia / Cosmopolitan:
Despite claiming that she'd misspoken when referring to the “Bowling Green Massacre” on MSNBC, Kellyanne Conway also referred to it in an interview on Jan 29 — Conway used the same wording in a conversation with Cosmopolitan.com on Jan. 29. — Kellyanne Conway took to Twitter …
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Reuters:
Kremlin demands apology from Fox News after host Bill O'Reilly calls President Vladimir Putin a killer, during interview with Donald Trump — The Kremlin said on Monday it wanted an apology from Fox News over what it said were “unacceptable” comments one of the channel's presenters …
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First Draft News:
First Draft, Facebook, Google, and news organizations including AFP and Le Monde launch verification project CrossCheck, to tackle fake news in France — Today, we are proud to announce the launch of CrossCheck with Google News Lab. CrossCheck is a collaborative journalism verification project …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Vox Media names Trei Brundrett, architect of its Chorus CMS, as its first COO as its focus turns to video and native ads with video views in 2016 exceeding 2.5B — Trei Brundrett led team that built web publishing platform — Owner of the Verge, Recode has beefed up management, board
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Michael Luo, who joined The New Yorker as investigative editor in October, has been named editor of the magazine's website — Just a few months after joining The New Yorker, Michael Luo is moving up at the magazine. — Luo, who was hired as The New Yorker's investigative editor in October …
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Philly.com:
Sources: Philadelphia freelance journalist Emily Guendelsberger identified as the woman who infiltrated and may have secretly recorded a GOP retreat — Federal authorities have identified a Philadelphia journalist as the woman who infiltrated and might have secretly recorded a closed-door discussion …
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Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
How Julia Hahn, a 25-year-old Breitbart reporter from Beverly Hills, became a special assistant to President Trump — How Julia Hahn got from the University of Chicago to Breitbart to the White House. — There's an old saw about Washington, D.C., that staffers in their twenties …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Gizmodo Media Group CEO Raju Narisetti, on layoffs at Fusion, the future of Gawker, and potential expansion into TV — “Think of all these sites as the digital, non-linear television arm of Univision.” — What exactly is Fusion? is a question many asked when the Univision …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Once merely embarrassing and ridiculous, attending the White House correspondents' dinner is poised to become an act of journalistic self-abasement — Once merely embarrassing and ridiculous, the annual White House correspondents' dinner is poised to tip over into journalistic self-abasement.
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Valentina Zarya / Fortune:
Snap Inc.'s only female board member, Hearst's Chief Content Officer Joanna Coles, makes far less than her male colleagues — Ahead of its IPO, the business community learned a lot about Snapchat, the famously secretive social media darling—including how white and male its board of directors is.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
In an episode of live storytelling podcast The Moth, Jonah Lehrer discusses his downfall, which began after serial fabrications were found in his work — Jonah Lehrer was about to go on stage before 1,000 people in the summer of 2012 when he got the news: Another writer just discovered …
Alexandra Ellerbeck / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Surveillance of journalists and court orders puts Canada's press freedom at risk — On February 6, VICE News reporter Ben Makuch is due to appear in court to appeal an order requesting that he hand over details of his communication with a source. The hearing comes ahead of a day of action …
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