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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Ed Butowsky, Fox News pundit who facilitated a private investigation into the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich, has links to Steve Bannon — Ed Butowsky, the Dallas wealth manager and frequent Fox News guest who facilitated a private investigation into the murder of Seth Rich …
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Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy:
Meanwhile, Rich family spox tells me @FoxNews never contacted them with apology. Retraction noticeably had no expression of regret/apology.
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
After several days of pushing theories on Seth Rich's murder, Fox News' Hannity announces he won't discuss the case for now
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Fox News:
Fox News retracts story about the murder investigation of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The Manchester Evening News raised £1M+ in crowdsourced donations from 30K+ people, for the families of those killed or injured in the city's terror attack — A fundraising page set up by the Manchester Evening News to support the families of those killed or injured in the bombing …
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@mennewsdesk, Forbes, Variety, @kaylahounsell, Business Insider, The Drum, JustGiving, men and Softpedia News
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Zeynep Tufekci / BuzzFeed:
Terrorism is mass murder with a media strategy and news outlets must learn to disrupt it, instead of providing endlessly looping coverage of attacks — Struggling to cover terror in the media age. — It's 2017, and the world is shaken by another depraved mass murder, carried out and claimed in the name of ISIS.
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Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
Sources: Facebook signs deals with Vox, BuzzFeed, others for video content, paying up to $250K/episode for longer shows it will own, $10-35K for shorter shows — Facebook Inc (FB.O) has signed deals with millennial-focused news and entertainment creators Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN …
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CNET, Variety, The Verge, @mathewi, @sfiegerman and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
Rachael Combe / ELLE:
Profile of Maggie Haberman of The New York Times: well-sourced, with a longtime relationship with Trump, dominating the White House beat from New York City — The man with the orange hair is making a scene. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for the New York Times …
Facebook:
Facebook redesigns Trending Topics pages to make it easier for users to discover alternate news sources — Redesigned Trending Results Page — Starting today, we're introducing a redesigned Trending results page, which is the page you see when you click on a Trending topic to learn more about it.
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Adweek, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Verge, Mashable and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone:
Longtime journalist Ken Kurson has resigned as editor of the New York Observer — Ken Kurson has resigned as editor of the Observer
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Media Insight Project study: 17% of Americans say media is very accurate, but 34% say media they use most often is very accurate; 53% call media they use moral — Just 24 percent of Americans said they regard “the news media” as “moral,” but that number jumps to 53 percent for the media they consume often.
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John Koblin / New York Times:
HBO has shelved Jon Stewart's shortform animation series, blaming technical issues; the company says it is still pursuing other projects with Stewart — Jon Stewart and HBO are not going forward with his much-anticipated animation project, a setback for what was supposed to be the next step in his post-late-night career.
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Mediaite, TVLine, Vanity Fair, Adweek, The Daily Caller, The Verge, Mashable and Deadline
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Responding to Andrea Tantaros' lawsuit, Fox News requests sanctions against her lawyer and asks for the case to be dismissed with prejudice — The cable news network demands sanctions as Andrea Tantaros' lawyer suggests something sinister. — Fox News has filed a blistering response …
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Real Stories and Variety
Jessi Hempel / Backchannel:
Q&A with Upworthy cofounder Eli Pariser, who coined the term “filter bubble” in his book, about the phenomena, fake news and its influence, more — Six years after the Upworthy cofounder coined the term “filter bubble,” things are much worse.
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@elipariser and @stevenlevy
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Times has launched a paywalled site for lawyers called The Brief, a spin-off of an existing free email bulletin; it is priced at £4/week for new subscribers — The Times has launched a premium website for legal readers called The Brief. — It will cost £4 a week for new subscribers …
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