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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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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.
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Library of Congress, Gizmodo, NPR, Recode, @evepeyser, @dancohen, @sunfoundation, @eiratansey, @amac, @gabby_hoffman, @jessienyc, TechCrunch, SlashGear, New York Magazine, Daily Wire, The Week, Business Insider, @davewiner, Fast Company, Splinter, CNET, The Hill, The Wrap and The Drum, more at Techmeme »
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Q&A with incoming NYT publisher A. G. Sulzberger on his new job, how he caught the journalism bug from his family, the decline of print advertising, and more — In 2009, a byline began appearing in the Times that carried with it the harbinger of dynastic transition.
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New York Times, @michaelluo, @moritzcom and @lionelbarber
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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@matthewt_ny, @greenhousenyt, @vox_union, @brandonmagner, @moorehn, @nicole_s_cohen and Blog Network
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.
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@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 …
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CNNMoney, Newser, Los Angeles Times, Telegraph, The Wrap, @nprscottsimon and @lallyweymouth
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.
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@beardedstoner, Talking New Media, @_drew_mccoy_, @mrdanzak, @natashabertrand, @angryblacklady, @demwrite, @joycewhitevance, @andrewsweiss, @trumpprisondate, @marcowerman, VICE, @anneapplebaum, emptywheel, @chris_biow, Newser, The Week, @markscott82, @kimdozier, @kimdozier, @propornot, @yashalevine, Washington Post, @attackerman, @elilake, @davereaboi, @ericgarland, @omriceren, @adamentous, @adamentous, @omriceren, @propornot, @profcarroll, @profcarroll, @natashabertrand, @maerroshan, @ericgeller, @michaeldweiss, @cjcmichel, @ilvestoomas, @sashaingber and Axios, more at Techmeme »
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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The Keyword, Business Insider and BloombergQuint, more at Techmeme »
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 …
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
CNBC's global ad sales team will start selling audio sponsorship packages to advertisers soon, after the network's voice audience on Google and Amazon doubled — Publishers have been enthusiastic about voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant this year, often undaunted …
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ZDNet, Voicebot and @jarroddicker, more at Techmeme »
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.
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 …
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L.A. Times Guild, The Wrap, @joshtpm, @dangillmor, San Diego Reader, @usempireshow, @kystokes and Fox News
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