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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Classic Trump administration news cycle: press report based on a leaked document, an official denial and scolding for not seeking comment, a cry of “fake news” — Friday morning, the Associated Press dropped a bombshell report: “Trump administration considers mobilizing …
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CBS News:
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus says media shouldn't use anonymous sources and should take Trump seriously when he calls media “the enemy” — Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, advised Americans to take President Trump's attacks on the media “seriously,” …
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Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
Mark Zuckerberg's lip service to journalism is not enough to sustain media amid Facebook's ad revenue siphoning and hands-off view of editorial responsibility — It's not that Mark Zuckerberg set out to dismantle the news business when he founded Facebook 13 years ago.
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
BuzzFeed introduces curated “Outside Your Bubble” feature to help readers see what people outside their social media networks are saying about the news — Publisher will expose audience to opinions from across the web — News outlets seek out other viewpoints after surprise election
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Emily Tan / Campaign UK:
YouTube will discontinue 30-second unskippable ads in 2018 — Starting next year, YouTube will stop allowing the 30-second unskippable ad and will focus instead on shorter formats. — In an official statement, Google explained that its aim is to provide a better advertising experience for online users.
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Robert Darnton / The New York Review of Books:
Historical overview of “fake news” including 6th-century Byzantine “Anecdota”, 16th-century wicked sonnets, 18th-century French canards, English paragraph men — Fake news is hardly new. The production of fake, semi-false, and true but compromising snippets …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
A case of self-censorship at a San Antonio public TV station shows how the fear of government reprisal can be fought — This is how the muzzling starts: not with a boot on your neck, but with the fear of one that runs so deep that you muzzle yourself. — Maybe it's the story you decide …
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Samanth Subramanian / Wired:
Profile of an anonymous teen in Veles, Macedonia, who earned nearly $16K off his two pro-Trump fake news sites between August and November — The first article about Donald Trump that Boris ever published described how, during a campaign rally in North Carolina, the candidate slapped a man in the audience for disagreeing with him.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Techdirt announces “survival” fund to support the publication as it fights a defamation lawsuit represented by Charles Harder — Donate to the Techdirt Survival Fund » — As we mentioned last month, we are currently being sued for $15 million by Shiva Ayyadurai …
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New Hampshire Union Leader:
New Hampshire's WBIN-TV sells spectrum to FCC for $68.1M, other TV license rights to undisclosed TV group for $10-$30M; sources say most staff laid off — CONCORD — WBIN-TV said Friday it “will cease broadcasting in the coming months” after selling its television broadcasting rights to the Federal Communications Commission.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Sources: Michael Dubke, a veteran Republican strategist, has been chosen as the new White House communications director — WASHINGTON — Michael Dubke, a veteran Republican strategist whose preferred place is away from a television camera and not standing in front of one …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Interview with NYT assistant recruitment editor Carolyn Ryan on how the paper is expanding its fact-checking and its coverage of healthcare and immigration — In the early days of the Trump administration, no news organization has been a bigger target than The New York Times.
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