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Review: Megyn Kelly's Alex Jones interview articulated a tough enough case and cross-examination to warrant giving Jones and Infowars mainstream exposure — Jones vs. Kelly: battle between new & old media — Megyn Kelly stepped into a hornet's nest with her Alex Jones interview …
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Google's new anti-extremist steps: targeted AI algo training, more content flaggers, no inflammatory video monetization, ads targeting potential ISIS recruits — Editor's Note: This post appeared as an op-ed in the Financial Times earlier today. — Terrorism is an attack on open societies …


How Susan Wojcicki has led YouTube: navigating the company through ad-positioning woes, keeping creators happy, and refining YouTube TV while growing revenue — To outmaneuver traditional TV—and secure Google's future—YouTube's CEO must satisfy homegrown creators, risk-averse advertisers …
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Group led by Eisendrath may have the edge over Tronc at buying Wrapports, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Reader, because of antitrust concerns — Credit the Cubbies. — The Chicago Sun-Times, long the struggling second newspaper of the city, managed to about break even in 2016 …
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Amid the UK election, left-wing hyperpartisan sites that blended activism with journalism gained audiences that rivaled the biggest newspapers — The Sun and the Daily Mail sell 3 million copies a day between them. But their decades-long claim to dominating public opinion may have finally come to an end.
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Analysis: at least 45 instances of violence, including rapes, murders, and suicides, have been broadcast via Facebook Live since its debut in December 2015 — According to a new BuzzFeed News analysis, Facebook Live has a violence problem far greater than the one portrayed in national headlines.
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Account of a reporter who was fired by Reuters after lawyer for Law360 complained about the non-compete she signed — THERE'S A SILENT SCOURGE creeping around newsrooms, one with origins in trade publications and tech-led new media: non-compete agreements.
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News Literacy Project's Checkology, an online portal for teaching students how to be savvy news consumers, is now used by 6,300 teachers serving 947K students — FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD ISABEL CATALAN stares intently at her laptop as she walks me through a recent assignment one sunny morning a few weeks before summer vacation.


Inside Trump's and Murdoch's symbiotic relationship, which began when Murdoch bought the New York Post in 1976 and stems solely from the pursuit of power — Trump has been good business for the media mogul, but their association goes back decades and stems from one thing: ‘These men value only power’


Profile of Breitbart News, which helped elect Trump but is now going through an awkward identity crisis as its grapples with its newfound establishment status — Tradition rules journalism as much as it rules golf, and tradition dictated that the White House press room was for upstanding men …
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How Rahawa Haile wrote her memoir, Going It Alone, about hiking the Appalachian Trail for Outside magazine — Photo courtesy of Rahawa Haile. — The first time I read “Going It Alone,” Rahawa Haile's memoir of her Appalachian Trail thru-hike for Outside, I was surprised the piece was so much more about race than nature.


Media accelerator Matter launches seventh startup class, with members exploring secure messaging, new kinds of social networks, searchable podcasts, and more — Matter focused on five areas in selecting its new class: diversity and inclusion, security, emerging technology, trust in media, and going beyond advertising.