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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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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 …
Zeke J Miller / Time:
White House announces it will not disclose visitor logs, citing security and privacy issues — The Trump Administration will not disclose logs of those who visit the White House complex, breaking with his predecessor, the White House announced Friday. The decision, after nearly three months …
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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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New York Times:
Sources: Bill O'Reilly's on-air comments about Ailes and harassment were a factor in Megyn Kelly's choice to leave Fox; Kelly complained to execs after comments — Last fall, in the weeks after 21st Century Fox struck settlements with two women who said that Bill O'Reilly had sexually harassed them …
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Mike Caulfield:
Facebook's “Tips to Spot False News” take too much time, are too generic and 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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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.”
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Five years after Warren Buffett snapped up 31 daily newspapers and 50 weeklies, optimism has given way to layoffs and anxiety — LAST WEEK, JOURNALISTS AT SEVERAL local newspapers run by Berkshire Hathaway's BH Media Group were met with news that their owner was slashing nearly 300 jobs companywide.
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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 …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Profile of Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman, who met as young tabloid reporters, worked together at Politico, and are finally reunited at the NYT — Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush are perhaps the most recognizable double byline in The New York Times covering Donald Trump's fledgling presidency.
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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 …