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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:
ICIJ releases Paradise Papers, with 95 media partners exploring 13.4M leaked files on offshore dealings, obtained by Süddeutsche Zeitung — The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists today releases The Paradise Papers, a global investigation that reveals the offshore activities …
Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix says it will not be involved in any further production of House of Cards with Kevin Spacey, scraps Gore Vidal biopic featuring actor — The streamer is “evaluating” the future of political drama House of Cards and is no longer moving forward with a planned Gore Vidal biopic that the two-time Oscar winner was set to star in.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
A year into Trump era, reporters have produced great accountability journalism, but relentless news cycles have left people exhausted and mistrustful of media — In the year since Donald Trump was elected president, the national news media has congratulated itself on a new golden age of accountability journalism.
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Paul Rosenberg / Salon:
How journalism's norms lead to reluctance by editors and media outlets to call out political lies, and how new tactics or beats could improve reporting — Media's obsession with “balance” and addiction to spectacle led to disaster. Can we get back to real reporting now?
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The Daily Beast:
How “Jenna Abrams”, a creation of Russia's Internet Research Agency, built ~70K Twitter followers and got quoted in numerous news outlets since 2014 — Jenna Abrams had a lot of enemies on Twitter, but she was a very good friend to viral content writers across the world.
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Recode:
Analysis: how US news orgs including Washington Post and Miami Herald cited tweets from Russian troll farm accounts, presenting them as authentic voices
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Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center:
Pew: 26% of US adults get news from two or more social media sites, up from 15% in 2013 and 18% in 2016; 50% of Facebook news users get news via Facebook alone — Americans are more likely than ever to get news from multiple social media sites, according to a recent Pew Research Center report.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Disney declined to offer LA Times entertainment writers advance film screenings claiming unfair coverage of its ties with Anaheim — The Los Angeles Times has just published its 2017 Holiday Movie Preview. Prominently featured is this note warning readers about a rather large and unfortunate omission from the reviews:
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
A look at Bild's framework to evaluate its partnerships with Google, Facebook, and Snapchat — Publishers face no shortage of dilemmas in a platform-dominated world. Bild, Axel Springer's most-read news brand, has developed a framework based on a traffic-light system for approaching …
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Business Insider:
Vox Media CEO and chief legal officer say they regret how Lockhart Steele investigation was handled — Vox Media acknowledged that it should have more vigorously investigated internal allegations of sexual harassment against its former editorial director Lockhart Steele.
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Julie Schwietert Collazo / Columbia Journalism Review:
Two Puerto Rican newspapers cut 59 staff after hurricane while parent company expands real estate portfolio in the US and Latin America — Image via Wikimedia Commons. — The staff of El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora, the two most important Spanish-language newspapers in Puerto Rico …
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Spirited Media lays off staffers from its three hyperlocal news sites, seeks new revenue streams — Photo of the Denverite office in October 2016 by Corey Hutchins — SPIRITED MEDIA LAID OFF STAFF at each of its three local news sites this week, undercutting hopes that the company …
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
A startup incubated by Matter introduces Grafiti, an iOS app that lets users explore verified datasets, create charts, and share results — “These days we have all these conversations about policy and immigration where data comes up, and it's amazing how much plain text is still used to explain these ideas."
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