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2:05 PM ET, September 25, 2017

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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 …
Lauren Easton / Associated Press:
Associated Press announces $245K from Knight Foundation for fact-checking initiative, will hire journalists, integrate local fact checks, analyze consumer data  —  The Associated Press announced today an effort to enhance its fact-checking and ability to debunk misinformation with $245,000 …
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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.
Discussion: Editor & Publisher
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 …
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."
Talking New Media:
Former TheAtlantic.com editor JJ Gould to succeed Eric Bates as New Republic editor; Bates to continue as editor-at-large  —  Gould will succeed Eric Bates who has resigned from his post as editor but will continue with the magazine as editor-at-large  —  New York, NY — September 25 …
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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: @janebsinger
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 …
Discussion: Deadline
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Nielsen sues to block comScore from offering new audience measurement service, alleging it will use Nielsen's data in violation of an agreement between them  —  Nielsen Holdings filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to block rival ComScore from offering a new service, Extended TV, that will provide TV audience data.
Discussion: Variety
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Free Speech Project debuts with funding from Knight Foundation to track incidents challenging speech in US, amid rise in state laws curbing speech and dissent  —  What's the state of free speech in America?  —  Sanford Ungar, who teaches about it at Harvard and Georgetown, has a simple, depressing answer.
 
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