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The Guardian:
The Associated Press removed Vice-President Mike Pence's wife's email address from a news story, following a letter and critical tweet from the VP — Vice-President Mike Pence has criticized the Associated Press for listing his wife's email address in a story about his frequent resistance …
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@vp, @nickmerrill, @sopandeb, @louisemensch, @jjohnsonlaw, iMediaEthics, @neeratanden, Politico, Newser, The Huffington Post, TheBlaze, Mediaite, Mashable and The Daily Caller
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
As Time Inc. mulls bids from buyers, a look at its current strategy under new Chief Exec Rich Battista and Chief Operating Officer Jen Wong — Onstage at a recent industry conference with the longtime leaders of the country's biggest magazine publishers, Rich Battista, the new chief executive of Time Inc., did not seem the outsider.
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@melbournecoal, @jimrutenberg and Media Wire Daily
Adrianne Jeffries / The Outline:
Google's featured snippets, presented as the “one true answer” in search and by Google Home, sometimes give false information from untrustworthy sources — The highlighted answers given prime placement over search results are often shockingly bad.
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Fortune, @ruskin147, Quartz, Engadget, Tech Narratives, Search Engine Land, MacRumors, @dtunkelang, Business Insider, @adrjeffries, @badnetworker, @dannysullivan, @znmeb, @dannysullivan, Recode, @brianmcc, @dannysullivan, @dphiffer, @emilybell, @dannysullivan, @adrjeffries, @digitallybones, @joshuatopolsky, @dannysullivan and @tdotrob, Thanks:@ravichandrans25
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump's treatment of media echoes Putin's: disparagement, denial of access, and favoritism — Many Americans were appalled when President Trump called the news media “the enemy of the American people.” — And rightly so: It's a phrase out of the autocrats' handbook.
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East Bay Times, @patztense and @rickhasen
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
How an image of Chuck Schumer and Putin made it from Reddit to Trump's Twitter account in less than 24 hours
How an image of Chuck Schumer and Putin made it from Reddit to Trump's Twitter account in less than 24 hours
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@miriamelder, @cwarzel and Washington Post
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Shortform video producer NowThis is expanding into longform programming, original shows, and investigative journalism, adds Andy Carvin and Nico Pitney to team — Short-form news video giant NowThis is getting into long-form programming, original shows and investigative journalism.
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@jinnovationcity
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Sources: German publishers are not signing up for Facebook's fake news initiative and have been unimpressed with its rollout in the country — After Facebook announced the first phase of a fact-checking initiative last month with partner Correctiv, a startup with 20 editorial staff manually …
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Broadcasting & Cable, @rasmus_kleis and @vivian
Liz Spayd / New York Times:
The New York Times added three women to the masthead recently yet there are fewer women leading big news departments since Jill Abramson left — The Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, acclaimed for his study of inkblots, might have enjoyed doing some field work at the most recent newsroom-wide meeting of The New York Times.
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@moorehn, @abbyabrams, @nishachittal, @grahamstarr, @rsm, @kenvogel, @ashleyfetters, @moorehn and The Wrap
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Comcast NBCUniversal is launching a Techstars-powered accelerator called LIFT Labs, to target startups in media, entertainment, and connectivity — Comcast NBCUniversal is getting into the startup accelerator game with a program called LIFT Labs for Entrepreneurs.
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Broadcasting & Cable
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Print zines have thrived in the internet age as an alternative source of expression, eschewing online vitriol and the homogeneity of social media platforms — As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on …
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@jennydeluxe and @natandrewson
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Profile of Sidewire, a social network that vets users, giving access to experts only; around one-third of its 800 members are journalists — The closed discussion platform shuts out the noise of Twitter's eggs and trolls and is betting on — gasp! — the value of government and media elites talking to one another.
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@sidewireinc, @janebsinger and @niemanlab
Todd Spangler / Variety:
CNN targets cordcutters by adding free original programming to its streaming service, CNNgo, available to those without a cable or satellite TV subscription — Tech docu-series ‘Mostly Human’ set to premiere March 12 — CNN three years ago launched CNNgo as a digital-streaming extension …
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CNN and TechCrunch
Rowena Mason / The Guardian:
In light of phone-hacking scandal, UK Shadow Culture Sec Tom Watson, co-author of book on phone hacking, wants Murdoch's Sky bid to be investigated by Ofcom — Labour MP to ask Karen Bradley to tell regulator to consider corporate governance failures at Murdoch's media empire