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Carla Herreria / HuffPost:
Vanity Fair faces backlash after reporter suggests in video that Hillary Clinton should take up knitting or “literally anything” instead of running again — The snarky video is part of a series, but the New Year's advice for the former presidential nominee caused the biggest stir.
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David Uberti / Splinter:
The faux scandal about Vanity Fair's Clinton video uses familiar social media bad-faith tactics that end up silencing individual journalists — A silly social video by Vanity Fair that suggested New Year's resolutions for Hillary Clinton drew harsh backlash from #Resistance Twitter myrmidons …
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Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Source: Snap is developing a “Stories Everywhere” product, led by ex-News Corp. SVP Rahul Chopra, to push Stories outside Snapchat, possibly via a web player — Snapchat is developing a new product called “Stories Everywhere” with a goal of making Snapchat Stories available outside …
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Investigation finds publishers like Ozy drove millions of visitors to pages with ads from companies like JPMorgan, but the traffic turned out to be fraudulent — Fake traffic was sent to pages containing ads for JPMorgan Chase & Co., Visa, Amazon, KFC, and other big brands.
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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 …
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
How Fox News' website has ramped up to 100+ full-time staff, up 45% YoY, and features a more combative tone under digital EIC Noah Kotch, to fend off Breitbart — As competition surges on the right, Fox's website increasingly follows the path of its prime-time hosts.
Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Report: subscription-based VOD in France hit €173M during the first nine months of 2017, nearly double that of the same period in 2016 — Bolstered by Netflix, subscription-based VOD in France hit €173 million ($205 million) during the first nine months of 2017 …
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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
As Facebook expands content moderation, contract workers describe the job of vetting porn, racism, and violence: high turnover, $13-$28/hour in Bay Area, more — Social-media giants hire legions of contractors to hunt for pornography, racism and violence in a torrent of posts and videos
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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 …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Inside the NYT's A1 UFO exposé: how reporters sold the story to executive editor Dean Banquet, how it was reported, role of the web, and possible follow-ups — “It was a story about government, and fights over funding and priorities,” Times executive editor Dean Baquet told me.
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Agence France-Presse:
Myanmar to detain two Reuters journalists for two more weeks after a hearing Wednesday, their first appearance since arrests based on Official Secrets Act — Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had been covering the army-led crackdown on Rohingya Muslims when they were arrested on December 12
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