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Casey Newton / The Verge:
How Facebook's shifting priorities and inferior monetization options for Instant Articles are leading some big publishers to abandon the format — Facebook's Instant Articles promised to transform journalism — but now big publishers are fleeing — Inside Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters …
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Axios, @alexmleo, @hrheingold, @jcstearns, @reckless, @rafat, @rafat, @caseynewton, @backlon, @jayrosen_nyu, @mhbergen, @macloo, @dannygroner, @raju, @lainnafader, @moorehn, @mathewi, @jcstearns and Digiday, more at Techmeme »
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
In the latest US-Russia diplomatic crisis, Putin has used Trump's anti-media stance to undermine him on the global stage — MOSCOW — I wanted to better understand President Trump's America, a place where truth is being ripped from its moorings as he brands those tasked with lashing it back into place …
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@jimrutenberg and @brianstelter
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Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
Interview with the reporter who broke a story on Chechnya's recent anti-gay purges and considers fleeing Russia after 15K people in Chechnya allegedly vow jihad — Novaya Gazeta is no stranger to hostility and controversy. The crusading Russian newspaper is known for powerful investigations …
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@unamullally, @deanvictorr, @katrinanation, PinkNews, Committee to Protect … and Jezebel
Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Several hours passed before Facebook removed a video of a murder shared on the social network — Facebook took posts down hours later — A Cleveland man is at large after reportedly killing someone and uploading the footage to Facebook. The video appears to show a man identified by police …
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Wired, Cleveland Division of Police, CBS News, @jeremymbarr, @brianstelter, New York Magazine, CNN, The Hill, Fortune, Mediaite, @dannysullivan, Raw Story, Variety, Gizmodo, @dannysullivan, Jezebel, USA Today, Real Stories, @_lilchen, @sdkstl, New York Daily News, @jason_kint, People.com, @sdkstl and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »
Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed:
How Zuckerberg has polished his image to win people over, beginning with greater use of personal FB posts in 2015 and culminating in his current US talking tour — Until recently — , Mark Zuckerberg's most iconic public appearance may have been the image of the young startup founder sweating through …
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@nxthompson, @annehelen, @glennf, @annehelen, @kimmaicutler and @nitashatiku, more at Techmeme »
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Fang Wang, senior duty editor for FT Chinese, describes censorship challenges in China and how the Great Firewall continues to evolve — Facing both pre-print and post-print censorship, media outlets in China are caught in a cat and mouse game — Technology and social media advances empower …
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Forbes
Eric Johnson / Recode:
Interview with Axios co-founder Mike Allen on making the transition from Politico and writing for a much broader audience now — “When they're fighting a fight, when they're in the war, then they need to explain themselves more than ever." — Even before President Trump took office …
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Axios
Jon Levine / Mediaite:
NYT Cairo bureau chief Declan Walsh criticized the paper's new Conservative op-ed columnist Bret Stephens on Twitter, linking to a 2016 column Stephens wrote — The New York Times raised eyebrows last week with the announcement that it would hire 16-year Wall Street Journal veteran …
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The Huffington Post and The Intercept
Eric Retzlaff / Leader Herald:
Mel Rulison, a newspaper delivery man for the Leader-Herald in upstate New York, is retiring after 57 years, having delivered an estimated 5M newspapers — Rulison, of Main Street, was not about to shoo them away, though. … But he had no camera. — Rulison retired Sunday as a route driver after 57 years.
Riley Griffin / Poynter:
Duke University Reporters' Lab catalogued 111 Trump statements about “fake news” over the past five months and found that 41% were response to Russia coverage — President Donald Trump offers a consistently defiant response to allegations about the Kremlin's meddling in the 2016 campaign: “fake news.”
Indira A.R. Lakshmanan / Poynter:
The SEC's actions against fake stock news are a reminder for financial news editors to adopt stronger ethics policies, disclosures, and safeguards — When investors go to financial news websites, they're looking for unbiased, independent guidance. Financial news sites' reputations …
Mike Caulfield:
Facebook's “Tips to Spot False News” are too generic, time-consuming, dated, and focus on easily gamed information on questionable sites — Sometime yesterday, Facebook rolled out the largest media literacy campaign in the history of the world. — Unfortunately, most of what it contained was bad advice.
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New York Magazine, @krisshaffer, @noethematt, @beholdkraken, @krisshaffer, @hypervisible, @newsmary, The Stranger … and Nieman Lab
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