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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 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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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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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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@gerryfsmith, @kdoctor, @kdoctor, @kdoctor, @riegerreport, @kdoctor, @montydaviskc and MarketWatch
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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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@adweek, @samimain and @nytimescomm
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, @coryschouten, @cjr, @phil_buck, @bypetevernon and @daviduberti
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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@lorenzofb, @mikeisaac, @joepompeo, @nycsouthpaw, @radleybalko, @xeni, @craigtimes, @alexweprin, @kelseymsutton, @dlippman, @politico, @schreckreports and @dlippman
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, @guardian, Independent.ie, ESPN FC, mirror and liverpoolecho
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, @freedomofpress, @notjessewalker, @trevortimm and @akikofujita
BuzzFeed:
Russia Today Is expanding its French website and plans to launch French TV station at the end of 2017, after the French election — The Russian broadcaster's global influence is continuing to expand, with extra staff being hired ahead of the French presidential election - with a TV channel to follow by the end of the year.
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@millermena, @miriamelder and The Times of Israel
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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@davidfrum, @elilake, @carrasquillo, @katherinemiller, @pfeifferdc, @jackshafer, @buzzfeednews, @irastoll and @buzzfeedben
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
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News cements its standing as Trump TV as Kellyanne Conway plugs Ivanka Trump's products without any opposition from Fox & Friends anchors — What's less surprising: that a top aide to President Trump would go on a Fox News program and plug the line of clothing and accessories of Ivanka Trump …
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