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Kelsey Sutton / Mic:
Amid a flurry of false news reports related to the Las Vegas shooting, Newsweek retracts a story about the shooter's girlfriend — Newsweek has retracted an article that made a number of claims about the female companion of Stephen Paddock, the man who shot and killed at least 58 people …
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Newsweek, New York Times, The Wrap, New York Post, Taste of Country, Washington Post, iMediaEthics, Business Insider, The Week, The Daily Caller, NPR and AOL
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook and Google, both immensely wealthy, need to step up with serious solutions to weaponized disinformation — (Eugene Garcia/European Pressphoto Agency/EFE) — Well-intentioned warnings to journalists were circulating early this week as the news of the Las Vegas massacre broke.
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Business Insider, @hankgreen, @canmediacouncil, @harrymccracken, @zeynep and Mashable
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Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Harvey Weinstein has hired lawyers including Lisa Bloom and Charles Harder ahead of expected New York Times and New Yorker stories about his behavior — The Hollywood mogul has enlisted a team of attorneys to fight planned articles that are said to be about his personal behavior.
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Variety, @becket, The A.V. Club, IndieWire, @mattdrange, @tylerkingkade, @brentalang and @raminsetoodeh
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
BuzzFeed says its AM to DM Twitter show drew about 1M unique viewers each day after it launched last week — Twitter's making a big push into live video, with deals for pro sports, talk shows,network TV premieres and more. But what does a real newscast look like if you rethink it for Twitter?
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@antheabutler and @mekosoff
Variety:
Time Inc.'s Entertainment Weekly announces it is moving its headquarters from New York City to Los Angeles by March 2018 — Brent Lang — Senior Film and Media Editor @BrentALang FOLLOW — Brent's Most Recent Stories — Go west, venerable magazine.
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The Wrap, Ad Age, WWD, MediaPost, Crain's New York Business and TVWeek.com
Crooked Media:
Crooked Media, the company behind podcast Pod Saved America, is launching a website, with The New Republic's Senior Editor Brian Beutler as editor-in-chief — Juggernaut start-up issues press release to get press about juggernaut start-up. — “Pride cometh before the fall,” said the company's founders.
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@christinawilkie, @peterhamby, @peterdaou, @oliverdarcy, @heerjeet, @jonfavs, @brianbeutler, @tvietor08, @crookedmedia, @jonlovett and @mattyglesias
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Newsroom employees at the LA Times are trying to form a union, a move which could aggravate relations with the paper's parent company Tronc — Newsroom employees at The Los Angeles Times are trying to form a union, setting up a potential clash with the newspaper's parent company, Tronc.
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Splinter, The NewsGuild - CWA, @danielmarans, @mayalau, @melbournecoal and @laura_nelson
BuzzFeed:
A look at the corporate war between the media and social media giants like Facebook; sources say Murdoch wants public to view FB, Google like Wall Street banks — Murdoch's bare-knuckle tactics are familiar to his many media enemies. Now his sights are set on Silicon Valley …
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@jimvandehei, The Daily Caller, @emilybell, @buzzfeedben, @digitalshields, @antheabutler, @perlberg and @davidfolkenflik
Benjamin Landy / Vanity Fair:
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson sidesteps question on whether CNN President Jeff Zucker will remain after AT&T-Time Warner deal — Amid rumors that CNN's leadership could be a sticking point in the Justice Department's approval of the AT&T-Time Warner merger, Zucker's future at the news network remains unclear.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
TV trade group accuses Facebook of inflating number of young users throughout US; FB says counts may include visitors, tourists, and users who misreport age — As Facebook grapples with the cascading fake news issue, the company is also increasingly facing charges from advertising groups …
US Press Freedom Tracker:
TYT cameraman Ty Bayliss and reporter Jordan Chariton arrested in St. Louis protest on highway, detained for about 20 hours despite press badges, released — Ty Bayliss — a cameraman and editor for the progressive online news organization The Young Turks — was arrested along …
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@brianstelter, @jordanchariton, @tytpolitics, @jordanchariton, @missjupiter1957, @uspresstracker, @cenkuygur and @thewaywithanoa
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Facebook's Watch videos are being viewed an average of 23 seconds — Early data suggests that Facebook's Watch is getting viewers to spend more time watching videos. But Facebook still has a long way to go to achieve the levels of retention that top video creators and publishers can get on YouTube.
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