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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Fox News Radio reporter Jon Decker, a member of WHCA board, confronts Gateway Pundit staffer Lucian Wintrich in WH press room; Wintrich claims he was assaulted — A Fox News Radio correspondent confronted in the White House briefing room the White House reporter for a website that traffics …
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Profile of Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, a friend of Trump who has emerged over the past few weeks as one of the president's most prominent unofficial spokesmen — Chris Ruddy is the Zelig of the Trump administration. — He's on CNN, blasting the White House chief of staff.
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BuzzFeed:
11 hoaxes published on The Resistance, which parodies fake news, were reposted by 48 different spam sites, including 16 from Macedonia and 4 from Georgia — When the American man known online as Busta Troll tried to get the Eastern European spammers to stop stealing his content, one threatened to knock his site offline.
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Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
WikiLeaks' CIA document cache, which focuses on compromising devices and not apps, underscores the strength of Signal's and WhatsApp's encryption — On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks released an enormous cache of documents that it claimed detailed “C.I.A. hacking tools.”
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Following buyouts, Postmedia to lay off 54 staffers at Vancouver Sun and Province around April 8, according to memo to staff — Canada's Postmedia company is laying off more than 50 employees at The Vancouver Sun and Province after a months-long buyout process aimed at cutting the company's payroll.
Ross Benes / Digiday:
BI UK will test an anti-ad blocker prompting readers to either whitelist BI, pay for an ad-free subscription, or pay a few pennies to see an article without ads — As its staff sized nearly doubled over the last year to 45 employees, Business Insider U.K. moved shop in January …
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Maev Kennedy / The Guardian:
Food blogger Jack Monroe has won about $30K in Twitter libel case against Mail Online columnist Katie Hopkins — Food writer and campaigner wins £24,000 from Mail Online columnist in row over tweets about damage to war memorial — The food writer and campaigner Jack Monroe …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Political journalism, ripe for groupthink, produced a failure of the “wisdom of crowds” during the election, which led to an underestimation of Trump's chances — This is the ninth article in a series that reviews news coverage of the 2016 general election …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at the Arctic Times Project, a nonprofit covering global warming in the Arctic, publishing stories in existing outlets instead of launching its own — “To get momentum and let people know who we are, we needed to go and do a story so they could see what we were talking about," said Oneal.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
TheStreet misses estimates, reporting Q4 loss of $11.6M, with revenue of $15.9M, down from $17M the prior year — Financial news company TheStreet.com reported a fourth-quarter loss that was worse than analyst expectations. — The New York-based company reported a loss of $11.6 million, or 33 cents per share, in the fourth quarter.
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: SoundCloud has been trying to raise $100M since last summer, without success — In 2014, the streaming music service thought it was worth $700 million. It could sell for much less. — SoundCloud needs more money, or it needs a buyer. — Sources say the streaming music service …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Seven newsrooms have closed their Politifact chapters since the presidential election, including The Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Providence Journal — PolitiFact, the national political fact-checking franchise started by the Poynter-owned Tampa Bay Times, has lost seven of its statewide partners since the presidential campaign.
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