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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK media magazine Press Gazette launches Duopoly campaign to stop Facebook and Google “destroying” any more of the UK journalism industry — Imagine if two news publishers dominated digital media in the way that Facebook and Google do. — The Government would not allow such a duopoly to stand.
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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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN hires Pulitzer award-winning NYT investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau as assistant managing editor at the network's Washington bureau — The voracious recruiters at CNN are at it again: This time, they've managed to coax veteran investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau from his perch at the New York Times.
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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Washington Post:
Stephen Bannon's multimedia empire, ranging from Breitbart to conservative documentaries, was funded by a network of donors, non-profits, and private companies — Stephen K. Bannon could barely finish his sentences as he implored the listeners of his Breitbart News radio show to see the new movie “Clinton Cash.”
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Majority Minority, a new show which interviews influential people of color in DC, is part of a slate of podcasts being developed by McClatchy DC — As she was finishing up her interview with Franco Ordoñez and Bill Douglas, Rep. Pramila Jayapal brushed away a tear.
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Journalists and legal observers arrested during Inauguration Day protests in DC are concerned their phones and devices may have been searched by law enforcement — Police seized the cell phones and cameras of journalists and legal observers arrested during Inauguration Day demonstrations.
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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 …
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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.”
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.
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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
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