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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Facebook executives reach out to journalists at IJF in Italy, saying they will try to “support informed communities” without becoming “arbiters of truth” — Adam Mosseri onstage at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy.
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
21st Century Fox has enlisted law firm to investigate at least one accusation of sexual harassment against Fox News host Bill O'Reilly — 21st Century Fox has enlisted the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison to investigate at least one accusation of sexual harassment against the Fox News host Bill O'Reilly.
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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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Rafat Ali:
Examining factors that affect valuations of digital media companies: revenue, profit, growth, audience, type of advertising, and more — How much is a digital media company worth? That is a question that a lot of us have been grappling with as lots of these companies have raised anywhere …
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@fcollective, @danbec, @rafat and @rafat
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 …
Discussion:
@whatthebit and Insights
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.”
Kitson Jazynka / Washington Post:
Professors teaching media literacy at US universities shed light on how they train students to identify “fake news”, detect bias and find balance in reporting — On an unusually warm Tuesday in February, students settle in to a classroom at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., for their Comm 203 class.
Ian Burrell / The Drum:
Profile of Mosaic, a three-year-old UK site backed by the £20.9B Wellcome Trust, publishing one in-depth, CC-licensed, story a week on life sciences and society — A media mogul with pockets twice as deep as Rupert Murdoch's makes a public promise to “being open to the widest mix of ideas …
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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@underoak, @lainnafader, @ilaon and @felixsalmon
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
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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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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@aragusea, Nashville Scene and Current
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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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Digiday, Nieman Lab, Facebook Media, CNET, Ad Age, Poynter, Adweek and VentureBeat
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