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11:10 AM ET, December 27, 2017

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Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge:
US Library of Congress will no longer archive the text of every tweet, will instead archive tweets on a “very selective basis”; the archive has yet to go online  —  The Library of Congress just announced some changes to its long-running plan to archive all of Twitter.
Washington Post:
Sources: years after FBI began tracking Russian disinformation efforts and US intelligence agencies drew up counter operations, the US still equivocates  —  The first email arrived in the inbox of CounterPunch, a left-leaning American news and opinion website, at 3:26 a.m. — the middle of the day in Moscow.
Matthew Sedacca / New York Times:
Union membership grows among digital publishers as writers and editors face job uncertainty amid media business troubles  —  After employees at the online media company Vox Media announced plans to form a union last month, German Lopez, a senior reporter at the company's general news website Vox.com …
Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
The year in US journalism: the big players, best feuds, media trends, and more  —  A guide to what happened in the mediaverse in 2017  —  It was a year dominated by a focus on our press-bashing president, when the scoops and push alerts threw the news cycle into overdrive.
Discussion: @icijorg and Washington Post
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
William Graham, son of ex-Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, died at his home in Los Angeles from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Dec. 20  —  William W. Graham, a lawyer, investor and philanthropist who was a member of the family that owned and published The Washington Post for many years …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
As attacks on the “mainstream media” increase, referring to it as the “reality-based press” is apt because journalism's job is to dig out the facts  —  On Jan. 22, Kellyanne Conwaydefended the president's order that Sean Spicer, in his first appearance …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google says it will retain domain opt-out and AdWords API tools policies after its voluntary pledges from 2013's antitrust agreement with FTC expire Wednesday  —  Though the part of Google's antitrust settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that had them allow exports of AdWords data through …
Deadline:
SEC filing: Tronc's largest shareholder, Michael Ferro, will be paid $5M annually through 2020 as a consultant; Tronc will no longer pay for his private jet  —  Chicago tech multi-millionaire Michael Ferro, the largest shareholder of Tronc (owners of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and …
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Don Hogan Charles, the first black photographer hired by The New York Times, died December 15 at age 79 in East Harlem  —  Don Hogan Charles, who was the first black photographer to be hired by The New York Times, and who drew acclaim for his evocative shots of the civil rights movement …
Shoon Naing / Reuters:
Myanmar police drop charges against two journalists working for Turkish state broadcaster; two Reuters journalists remain in detention without access to lawyers  —  (Reuters) - Myanmar police said on Tuesday they would drop pending charges against two journalists working for Turkey's state broadcaster …
 
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Reuters:
Vietnam unveils new, 10K-strong cyber warfare unit to counter “wrong” views online, a month after blogger was sentenced to 7yrs for propaganda against the state
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
BBC's branded-content arm StoryWorks begins offering its clients data on how people react to content, gathered using face and eye tracking tech
 Earlier Picks: 
Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
2018 predictions for fact-checking: consultants will help craft more fake news, anti-misinformation bills will fail, collaborative efforts will flourish, more
Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
A look at 2017's most serious and most humorous corrections, retractions, and clarifications
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Redbox reaches new deal with Universal Pictures to make its Blu-ray Disc and DVD titles available digitally and for rental same day as home-video release
Discussion: SlashGear