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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
AP report details best practices and challenges of automating reporting on earnings reports and minor-league baseball coverage — In 2014, the Associated Press began automating some of its coverage of corporate earnings reports. Instead of having humans cover the basic finance stories …
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
As harassment claims hound Bill O'Reilly, his latest book “Old School”, a defense of traditional values, tops charts — The timing of Bill O'Reilly's latest best-selling book could hardly be more awkward. — The book, “Old School,” is billed as a defense of traditional values …
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
How Bill O'Reilly became the latest target for Angelo Carusone of Media Matters through pressure on advertisers
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Phil Cox / The Guardian:
Filmmaker Phil Cox recounts being kidnapped, tortured, and thrown in jail in Sudan — But this time, the Sudanese government put a price on his head — n the early morning of 24 December 2016, my friend Daoud and I lay side by side on a blanket, our legs chained at the ankles, secured with heavy padlocks.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Competing news outlets in Norway are building a new standalone site dedicated entirely to fact-checking — Faktisk.no is a new collaboration between newspapers Dagbladet and VG and the country's public broadcaster NRK: “One of the first things we realized was that we had to sit outside our own organizations.”
Hamilton Nolan / Fusion:
Looking at the term “independent media” and the influence of money: true financial independence is almost impossible to find — Not so long ago, Nick Denton used to boast that Gawker Media was the last true beachhead of “independent media” in America. How quickly things change.
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Bloomberg:
France's eight-page, staff-owned weekly, Le Canard Enchaîné, mixes off-color jokes with investigative scoops that politicians fear ahead of election — A satirical weekly named after a duck has become the top newsbreaker in Paris. — by — Subscribe Reprints
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook adds new features to Instant Articles to encourage email sign-ups and Page Likes — Facebook today rolled out an improvement to its Instant Articles feature that now lets publishers include call-to-action units in their articles to better connect with readers, including those that encourage email sign-ups and Page Likes.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Q&A with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Trump's taxes, interviewing White House officials, and the rigors of news coverage under the new president — Since Jan. 20, Washington has received ample indication that nothing is the same anymore. There's been a press briefing merely to berate …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
SEC filing: CBS chairman and CEO Les Moonves received $69.6M compensation in 2016, up 22.5% over 2015 — The filing also disclosed that Sumner Redstone would leave his voting role on the CBS board as of the annual shareholder meeting in May. — CBS Corp. chairman, president …
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Adam Ragusea / Columbia Journalism Review:
When colleges and local governments hold public media licenses, editorial integrity can be precarious — Former WUTC reporter Jacqui Helbert. Photo by Megan Hollenbeck. — I ALWAYS CHUCKLE WHEN PEOPLE ALLEGE corporate sponsors or major donors are compromising the editorial integrity of American public broadcasting.
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Alexander Russo / Phi Delta Kappan:
Reporters say they are frustrated by a lack of access to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — Access, responsiveness, and calendar notifications are all at issue — As of early April, journalists' access to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - and to timely responses from the agency she now runs …
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@alexanderrusso and Media Matters for America
Naomi Martin / Dallas Morning News:
Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren sues Glenn Beck and TheBlaze for wrongful termination, claims her Facebook page is not TheBlaze's property — Tomi Lahren, the young incendiary conservative commentator, is suing her former boss, Glenn Beck and his media firm, The Blaze, for wrongful termination involving her pro-choice comments.
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James Warren / Poynter:
Q&A with Ron Fournier, who covered the Clintons, George W. Bush, and Obama, on moving from DC to Crain's Detroit Business and on the ravaging of local media — Yes, you can go home. — If you labor in the self-regarding echo chamber of Washington, D.C., leaving can be difficult.
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