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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
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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Henry Chu / Variety:
British regulator Ofcom says Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson's shows breached UK's broadcasting code by breaching impartiality rules — Findings that Fox News breached fairness rules come as Fox-Sky takeover bid remains up in the air — British media regulator Ofcom has concluded …
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Liam Corcoran / Nieman Lab:
A look at quarterly print magazine The Bristol Cable, with a news staff of five and about 1,800 members paying £3/month for events and input into news coverage — The Bristol Cable now has a solid stable of members who can be involved in every stage — from pitching story ideas …
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Al Jazeera to launch podcast network, Jetty, later in November with hybrid interview-narrative show Closer Than They Appear, more shows in early 2018 — “We should get into the habit of thinking about audience in terms of customer relationship management and building communities around our shows' audiences …
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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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.
Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ 2017 Global Impunity Index: 12 countries account for nearly 80% of unsolved murders of journalists; 93% of murder victims are local reporters — CPJ's 2017 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free — Impunity in the murders …
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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