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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
The second largest fake news network on record is a group of at least 33 websites, including ViralMugShot.com, that largely eschew political coverage — Some of the sites' hits include “Father of 23 Kids Only Had Sex at Night, Because He Thought Sperm Was Sleep” and “60 KKK Members Commit Suicide …
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Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
JPMorgan Chase has limited its display ads to about 5K pre-approved websites, and aims to restrict YouTube ads to a human-checked list of 1K channels — As of a few weeks ago, advertisements for JPMorgan Chase were appearing on about 400,000 websites a month.
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Don Kaplan / New York Daily News:
Spectrum lays off more than a dozen NY1 staffers in unexpected round of cuts, and eliminates NY1's weekly public affairs program The New York Times Close Up — Bloodbath at NY1: Some of your favorite on-air staffers at New York news channel get the ax — It seems NY1's new owners …
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Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
Study of 15K scholars and tech experts shows 81% expect online incivility and trolling to stay the same or get worse, with “Potemkin internet” hiding incivility — I'm going to confess an occasional habit of mine, which is petty, and which I would still enthusiastically recommend …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: FCC expected to reverse UHF rule that hindered TV station owners from buying more stations, easing a potential Sinclair-Tribune Media deal and more — Proposal would restore ‘UHF discount’ in calculating audience share — WASHINGTON—Federal regulators plan to reverse an Obama-era rule …
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William Turvill / City A.M.:
Citing financial pressures, the BBC ends its partnership with the Associated Press and begins a “new relationship” with Agence France-Presse — Associated Press said it was disappointed not to have secured a new contract with the BBC... “but producing the high quality journalism …
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@aamills, @prashantrao, @kimgamel and @zenjournalist
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Profile of former Breitbart reporter Julia Hahn, who was mentored by Steve Bannon and who now serves as a special assistant to the president — It was a warm August night last year when Ryan Williams, a well-connected Republican operative, went to a book party in Washington — and met a ghost.
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Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas:
Two journalists, Julio Omar Gómez and Armando Arrieta Granados, survived shootings in Mexico within 24 hours this week; three others killed this month — In the early morning hours of March 28, journalist Julio Omar Gómez's house was set on fire in Baja California Sur …
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Alex Pareene is leaving Gizmodo Media Group to lead a new politics team at Fusion, which will also include Hamilton Nolan and Ashley Feinberg — JAMES COMEY WANTED TO PUBLISH A NYT OP-ED ON RUSSIAN ELECTION MEDDLING - And he wanted to do so last summer, according to Newsweek's scoop last night …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Pandora, facing continued pressure by investor Corvex to sell, has to convert some of its 81M users from free radio to its Premium $9.99/month service — Music streaming app is best shot to spur growth, cut losses — Activist Corvex with 8.8% stake urges company to weigh options
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Recode, hypebot and TechCrunch
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBC, BuzzFeed, and Snap team up for 2018 winter Olympic coverage; NBC and Buzzfeed to produce content for Snapchat Discover, Snap to provide ad-sales packages — NBC, Snap Inc. and BuzzFeed will be jumping back into the Olympics rings next year. — The broadcaster will work with BuzzFeed …
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Wall Street Journal, Broadcasting & Cable, The Drum, Fortune, Ad Age, Adweek and CNBC
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
How 100 Days in Appalachia builds a national audience by involving West Virginia students, pro advisers, and contributors for nuanced stories beyond coal miners — “Everyone's talking to coal miners; we want to introduce you to somebody else that you're not expecting to see."
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