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Columbia Journalism Review:
Study of 1.25M stories from April 2015 until the US election shows that a right-wing media network, anchored around Breitbart, altered the broader media agenda — The 2016 Presidential election shook the foundations of American politics. Media reports immediately looked for external disruption …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Discussion among a Breitbart editor and other journalists shows the challenges and dangers for media covering Trump — It was a cross between Poynter.org and “The Five.” Today at a journalism conference titled “Covering Trump” and organized by the Columbia Journalism Review …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / CNBC:
NBCUniversal invested $500M in Snap IPO as part of a strategic investment and partnership, making it the only US media company with a stake — NBCUniversal, a unit of Comcast and parent of CNBC, invested $500 million in Snap during its IPO as part of a strategic investment and partnership, according to sources.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with New York Times editor Jake Silverstein, on the paper's recent front-of-book redesign and how the Times sees print and digital working together — “One thing that's cool on this project is seeing how print and digital can be friends.” — New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman's tweetstorm …
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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
JetSmarter, the “Uber for private jets”, wanted to charge a Verge reporter $2K if they didn't publish a positive story about their flight after service demo — We've seen plenty of aggressive requests from companies that want positive coverage, but perhaps none as absurd …
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@caseynewton, @reckless, @anjalimullany, @urvaksh, @jtemple, @jguynn, @mattbevi and Talking Biz News
Michael Canyon Meyer / Columbia Journalism Review:
This Land Press, a Tulsa-based startup founded in 2010 to bring literary journalism to the heartland, will suspend publication of its magazine this spring — This Land Press, the Tulsa-based startup founded in 2010 to bring literary journalism to Middle America, will suspend publication of its celebrated magazine this spring.
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Contributor networks are fading away from sites like Bleacher Report, HuffPo, and Forbes, as publishers pursue quality over scale — For years, the contributor network has been seen as a proven way for publishers to grow quickly and cheaply. But that model is getting harder to prop up amid today's emphasis on quality over scale.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Editor of Barron's Ed Finn is leaving after 24 years; Jack Otter, head of Barron's Digital, to take over as interim editor — Almar Latour, publisher and executive vice president of the Dow Jones Media Group, sent out the following announcement on Friday:
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Vox Media names Elena Bergeron as SB Nation's first editor in chief, says it will add employees “in the double digits” to expand sports site's newsroom — One of these sites is not like the other: ESPN.com, CBSSports.com, FoxSports.com, SBNation.com.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Juan Thompson, who was fired from The Intercept for fabricating quotes, is arrested on suspicion of making bomb threats against eight Jewish community centers — Juan Thompson, who was fired from The Intercept last year for fabricating quotes, has been arrested on suspicion of making bomb threats against Jewish community centers.
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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Automattic, the company behind WordPress, launches new importing tool that makes it easier to copy Medium content to a WordPress site — Publishing platform Medium recently laid off dozens of people. So if you don't want to hand away your precious writing to a startup that is still looking …
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Reuters:
Sources: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin used his first senior staff meeting last month to tell his new aides he would not tolerate leaks to the news media — President Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin used his first senior staff meeting last month to tell his new aides …