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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Political journalists now must do the tedious job of second-grade level fact checking of Trump administration statements — Mike Allen of Axios counseled journalists to appreciate these times. “Enjoy this — soak it in,” said Allen in a chat with Breitbart News. — Sorry, but there's not much to enjoy.
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Facebook:
Facebook commits to an audit of its ad metrics by the Media Rating Council, the industry's measurement watchdog, following data controversy — As a partner to over 4 million advertisers across a wide range of organizations and objectives, we want to provide transparency, choice and accountability.
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Ken Doctor / Politico:
Gannett and McClatchy's dismal financial earnings reinforce the growing idea that the current local news revenue model has stalled — How deep is the decline in the regional newspaper business? — Today, Gannett, the U.S.'s largest newspaper company with 109 local properties …
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Times reporter Amy Chozick is taking a book leave to write a “political memoir” about her eight years covering Hillary Clinton for WSJ and NYT — By JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman) and ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com; @apalmerdc) with DANIEL LIPPMAN (daniel@politico.com; @dlippman) 02/10/17 06:58 AM EST
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Profile of Keith Olbermann, whose new GQ political web series, The Resistance, has been getting more than 2M views per episode — “If you're going to travel with me, you cannot precisely characterize the area I live in," Keith Olbermann wrote in an email. “Nothing more detailed than ‘midtown’ …
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Mediaite, SPLICETODAY.com, @bterris, @bterris, @ashleyrparker, @tjenningsbrown, @tomkeene and @jayrosen_nyu
Stephen Witt / Billboard:
Interview with Jeff Bezos and Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music, about the music industry, Echo and Alexa's place in it, more — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos would make almost any list of the world's most powerful people. In retail, he's clearly on top, and in tech, he's close to it.
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Fortune, Fast Company, hypebot, @mckaycoppins, Gizmodo, The Guardian, INSIDER, Mediaite, Daily Mail, AppleInsider, GeekWire, @ckindel, @stephenwitt, @palafo, RAIN News, Business Insider and Axios
Sami Main / Adweek:
How The New York Times is growing T Brand Studio, its branded content arm with over 100 employees, investing in new tech like AR and VR, acquisitions, more — Like other news and media companies, The New York Times has its own branded content studio: T Brand Studio.
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@nytimescomm, @samimain and @adweek
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Google has warned several prominent journalists, including Jonathan Chait and Julia Ioffe, that state-sponsored hackers are trying to break into their inboxes — Google has warned a number of prominent journalists that state-sponsored hackers are attempting to steal their passwords and break …
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@nycsouthpaw, @radleybalko, @craigtimes, @alexweprin, @kelseymsutton, @dlippman, @politico, @schreckreports, @joepompeo, @dlippman, @lorenzofb and @xeni
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Bill Keller, editor in chief of The Marshall Project, which is amping up its coverage of immigration and deportation and hiring a Washington reporter — President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his false claim that the country's murder rate is the highest it has been in 47 years.
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@markobbie, @phil_buck, @cjr, @daviduberti, @coryschouten and @bypetevernon
Justina Crabtree / CNBC:
A look at the encryption platforms helping facilitate leaks from Trump's White House, including SecureDrop and Signal, which are growing in popularity — As far as leaks out of new U.S. President Donald Trump's administration go, the saying “when it rains, it pours,” might be appropriate.
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@tomfelle, @trevortimm, @freedomofpress, @akikofujita and @notjessewalker
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Profile of R. Emmett Tyrrell, founder of The American Spectator and the first conservative editor to embrace Trump — It's easy enough to find editors these days who say they saw Donald Trump coming, hard to find ones who are telling the truth about that. By my estimation perhaps …
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@jackshafer, @carrasquillo, @buzzfeednews, @elilake, @katherinemiller, @irastoll, @pfeifferdc, @buzzfeedben and The Guardian
David Conn / The Guardian:
Liverpool Football Club bans The Sun from its stadium over the newspaper's notorious coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy when 96 fans were killed — Liverpool Football Club have banned the Sun from their Anfield stadium and Melwood training ground over the newspaper's notorious coverage …
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Telegraph, The Independent, mirror, Independent.ie, ESPN FC and liverpoolecho
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Profile of Technically Media, a Philadelphia-based company which publishes local tech sites in five Mid-Atlantic markets — The company, which publishes tech sites in the Mid-Atlantic, wants to grow beyond its core events revenue model while keeping community at the heart of what it does.
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@leeprocida
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Viacom CEO Bob Bakish says “highly selective” licensing deals for new shows will reinforce the need for pay TV contracts — Viacom's new boss reminds the pay TV guys that he likes doing business with the pay TV guys. — Do you like watching shows from MTV, Comedy Central and other Viacom-owned networks?
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Broadcasting & Cable, Vanity Fair, Engadget, Axios and Forbes
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