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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Twitter says it will update public policies to include newsworthiness of tweets after Trump threatens North Korea — Twitter didn't act to remove President Donald Trump's tweet threatening North Korea in part because it is newsworthy, the company said today.
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Washington Post:
Sources: on Nov. 19, 9 days after Zuckerberg downplayed fake news' role in election, Obama appealed to him to take threat of political disinformation seriously — Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the idea that fake news on his company's social network played …
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Lorelei Marfil / WWD:
Fashion and street style photographers form an “unofficial union” to protest lack of pay from the commercial use of their pics by brands, influencers, bloggers — The #NoFreePhotos initiative kicked off earlier this week. — Out and about at Paris Men's Fashion Week
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thecut, New York Times, Quartz, @photobrigade, Financial Times, The Fashion Law, @conniewang, @thefashionlaw, Vogue.com.au, @tesscagle and @emiliapetrarca
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Knight Foundation announces $2.5M in funding to support projects at seven organizations, new commission to tackle declining trust in media, with $2M in support — A lot more resources are going into addressing the problem of the American public's withering trust in media institutions.
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Knight Foundation and Editor & Publisher
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Brian McCollum / Detroit Free Press:
In what's being described as a first-of-its-kind deal, Eminem's music catalog will go public, with investors and fans able to buy shares in it — Want to buy a piece of “Lose Yourself,” “Stan” and “The Real Slim Shady”? — In a potentially pioneering venture, shares in Eminem's entire hit catalog …
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Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Business Insider, Financial Times, PR Newswire, CNBC and Variety
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
A profile of Old Town Media, the new company from three ex-Politico executives which wants to build media platforms and help companies with projects — The company is a little difficult to describe, but its mission is less so: to help a wide variety of news organizations develop new ideas …
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@janebsinger
New York Times:
How magazine publishers are diversifying from print to invest in events, podcasts, video, and brand partnerships — One evening in mid-September, a gaggle of writers and bon vivant editors gathered by the outdoor fireplace and ivy-covered trellis of a West Village tavern.
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@rafat, Talking New Media, @jimrutenberg, @deniselaw_ and @nytimes
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
How newsrooms in New Orleans and Clear Health Costs crowdsourced medical bills to reveal healthcare cost differences and shady billing practices by providers — “We think of this as a perfect use case for journalism — finding real, good information and displaying it back to the public."
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
During the debut of her new morning show, Megyn Kelly Today, Megyn Kelly told viewers she was “kind of done with politics for now” — Megyn Kelly isn't playing politics anymore - at least not on camera. — The former Fox News anchor vowed to put aside the hard-edged interviewing …
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Deadline, Media Matters for America and Mother Jones
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube debuts new marketing tools, new ad tech that can target using Google Maps and app install data, and offline ad impact measurement tools with Nielsen — YouTube today introduced a series of new tools for marketers, one of the more notable being “Director Mix,” a technology that allows …
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Ad Age, Adweek, Inside AdWords, Business Insider, AdExchanger and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »
Anuj Srivas / The Wire:
Sources: Hindustan Times EIC Bobby Ghosh's exit was preceded by government objections to coverage, Ghosh's social media views and lack of Indian citizenship — An internal email also shows HT is distancing itself from the ‘Hate Tracker’, a key initiative of Bobby Ghosh's that the BJP and its supporters were unhappy with.
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India Legal, @ghoshamitav, NewsBytes App and @pbhushan1
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Mashable has had extensive talks with European media company ProSiebenSat.1 about a sale — Site known for tech and pop-culture stories is pursuing a possible sale — The new-media company Mashable is about to test how much “pivoting to video” pays off.
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Tubefilter, Variety, @asharma and @rafat
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