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The Huffington Post has rebranded as HuffPost and has redesigned its site, opting for a tabloid style evocative of the New York Daily News in the 1970s — “The splash is really the best of our editorial voice...In thinking about who we are, this is the best reflection of it from a product perspective."
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Bill O'Reilly speaks publicly for first time since Fox News departure, says he will host daily podcast, free until Thu., then only available to Premium Members — Bill O'Reilly has broken his silence following his departure last week from Fox News. — In his first media appearance since signing off of …
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In the Trump era, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has started beating Fox News in the key 25-54 demographic which determines advertising rates — Fox News normally ranks #1 among cable news channels. But lately MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been challenging Fox at 9 p.m., the centerpiece of the prime time schedule.
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CPJ: technology, combined with old school censorship tactics, has resulted in more arrests and killings of journalists than CPJ has ever recorded before — Old-school censorship and repressive government tactics have combined with technology and social media to create a new and troubling …
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With 73 percent of internet publishing jobs based in Boston-NY-DC or West Coast corridors, the US media bubble is real and growing more extreme — We crunched the data on where journalists work and how fast it's changing. The results should worry you. — How did big media miss the Donald Trump swell?


Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a crowdfunded news site that will use journalists to write and volunteers to fact check in effort to combat fake news — The crowd-funded news platform aims to combat fake news by combining professional journalism with volunteer fact checking: “news by the people and for the people.”
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The standing committee of the US Senate Daily Press Gallery has denied Breitbart News permanent credentials to Capitol Hill — The standing committee of the US Senate Daily Press Gallery has denied Breitbart News permanent credentials to Capitol Hill, a move that would have given …
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Gannett reports Q1 print ad revenues down 17.7% YoY, local digital ad revenue up 3.7%, and mobile digital ad revenue up 39.2% — Warnings were that the first quarter of 2017 would be about as bad financially as the final two of 2016 for newspaper organizations.
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In its latest attempt to tackle fake news, Facebook tests displaying links to fact-checks alongside stories inside Related Articles widget — Facebook wants you to think about whether a headline is true and see other perspectives on the topic before you even read the article.
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Robert Siegel to step down as host of NPR's All Things Considered in January 2018, after spending 40+ years working at the network — Robert Siegel's voice and signature reporting have been an essential part of NPR since he first arrived in Washington in 1976.
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Infowars host Alex Jones is being sued by Chobani over articles and videos that falsely linked the company to child rape and a tuberculosis outbreak — Chobani, the maker of Greek yogurt, is suing right-wing provocateur Alex Jones, claiming he published articles and videos that falsely linked …
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Thai man broadcasts killing his 11-month-old child with Facebook Live; the two clips were taken down after 24 hours, garnering 112K and 258K views respectively — Distressing footage of murder of 11-month old in Thailand was accessible to Facebook users for approximately 24 hours before being taken down
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Netflix signs licensing deal with iQiyi, one of China's top video streaming services and a subsidiary of the country's search giant Baidu — The streaming giant has been attempting to negotiate greater accesss to the huge Chinese market for several years. — Blocked by regulators …
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