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Wall Street Journal:
Media companies shutter niche cable channels with low viewership, but cable-TV prices aren't set to drop — But don't expect your bill to decrease as networks go away — The engorged cable-TV bundle is being forced to slim down. — For decades, the number of TV channels on the cable dial has kept rising.
Washington Post:
Interview with German reporter, Kristina Dunz, who asked Trump about decrying fake news while spreading false accusations, during press event with Angela Merkel — BERLIN — President Trump's first meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have resembled the comedic awkwardness of a Sacha Baron Cohen movie.
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Elle Hunt / The Guardian:
Facebook starts flagging potential fake news stories as “disputed by multiple, independent fact-checkers” — Feature - which flags content as ‘disputed’ - trialled on story that falsely claimed thousands of Irish people were brought to the US as slaves
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The Drum, @slatukip, @markmackinnon and @robjamesberry
Rob Evans / The Guardian:
Source: London's Metropolitan police and Indian police used hackers to read emails of journalists and press photographers — Exclusive: Secretive Met unit worked with Indian police to obtain campaigners' passwords, anonymous letter alleges — The police watchdog is investigating allegations …
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Engadget, @vidyut, @greenjennyjones, @matthew1butcher, @greenjennyjones, Press Gazette, The Next Web, @snowden, Ars Technica UK and Featured Articles
Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter:
Trump's lawyers sent a cease and desist letter to teen behind cat website, which allows users to scratch photos of the President with virtual cat paws — “I really just want people to be aware that this is a president who's clearly more concerned about what people think of him than doing things of substance …
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Consequence of Sound and Observer
Brian Morrissey / Digiday:
Gizmodo Media Group receives 25% of revenue from commerce, says CEO Raju Narisetti, and recently hit 96M unique visitors across its network of sites — Gizmodo Media Group, now operating under Univision, has eight media brands, with six comprising the former Gawker Media properties left after that company's bankruptcy and sale.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
9th Circuit appeals court rejects FilmOn's bid for license to stream broadcast works without consent of copyright holders, reversing federal decision from 2015 — The 9th Circuit has reversed a federal judge who concluded otherwise. — On Tuesday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed …
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Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost, Variety, Los Angeles Business …, Law360 and Deadline
Evan Engel:
Reporter Evan Engel says he resigned from Vocativ after the publication tried to suppress a story he was working on about police officers abusing prisoners — Yesterday, I left Vocativ, the news site where I've worked since August of last year. I've included the text of my resignation letter below …
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Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed:
Fortune mag fell for a fake 1973 telegram attributed to McDonald's founder Ray Kroc telling President Nixon to “retire bitch”, didn't add correction for hours — It took a few hours for Fortune to put up a correction — McDonald's made a splash last week when its Twitter …
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@matttomic and @claire_phipps
Ad Age:
Advertising Age magazine names Digiday Executive Editor Brian Braiker as its new editor; in statement, he says the mag will now “broaden its scope” — Advertising Age has named Brian Braiker its next editor, succeeding Ken Wheaton, who left at the end of December.
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@slarkpope, @dominicru, @kenwheaton and @sizpatel
James Warren / Poynter:
Inside the Pulitzer Center, a 10-year-old nonprofit with 571 publication partners that has supported 715 projects and facilitated a total of 6,168 stories — Iona Craig, a prototypical high-wire journalist without much of a safety net, recently found herself in a broken-down car with no phone reception by a riverbed in war-torn Yemen.
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Matthew Kassel / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Joseph Albright, Jersey Journal columnist of 53 years and possibly the longest-serving statehouse reporter in the US — Joseph Albright at his desk. Photo by Matthew Kassell. — DISCARDED PEANUT SHELLS LITTER THE SIDEWALKS of downtown Trenton around the entrance of the New Jersey statehouse …
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