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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Journalists have flimsy legal protections if Trump's Department of Justice uses Espionage Act and orders them to reveal sources, a practice Obama's DoJ started — For those who care about press rights in America, President Trump's words last week were stunning and disturbing.
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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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Winnie Hu / New York Times:
Polk Awards honor David Fahrenthold of WaPo on Trump, ICIJ on Panama Papers, ProPublica's Alec MacGillis on voters, East Bay Express on Oakland police, more — A Washington Post reporter who brought to light a video of Donald J. Trump making lewd comments about women and a ProPublica reporter …
Jane Lee / The Age:
Australia's Yahoo7 fined $300K after one of its reporters published an article that led to an aborted murder trial — Yahoo7 has been fined $300,000 and convicted of contempt of court for publishing an article that aborted a murder trial, with a judge saying that one of Australia's biggest …
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Mumbrella, ABC, The Guardian and iMediaEthics
Jared Keller / Pacific Standard:
To encourage media literacy and fact-checking, Wikimedia spinoff Wiki Edu invites students to write Wikipedia pages instead of traditional research papers — The online encyclopedia has been fact-checking the Internet for more than 15 years. Now it wants to bring its skeptical eye to the masses.
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
A look at Local Matters, a weekly newsletter highlighting local watchdog journalism around the country that is put out by three Naples Daily News reporters — Each day, early in the morning, during lunch or when they're done covering politics and courts in Naples, Florida, three young journalists turn back to the news.
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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Bryan Curtis / The Ringer:
How the rise of athlete activism, the election of Donald Trump, and other factors turned sportswriting into a liberal profession — Donald Trump's election was merely an accelerant for a change that was already sweeping across sports journalism — ack in the 1930s, you could walk …
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@douthatnyt and Slate
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 …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Boston's WHDH has offered 87 hours per week of local news and filled the rest of the time with syndicated content after losing NBC affiliation at end of 2016 — Spurned by a network that wanted to own its own station in the market, WHDH has responded by offering 87 hours of local news a week.
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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