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2:55 AM ET, January 15, 2018

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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Some Facebook ex-staffers think Twitter-inspired 2013 shift to display more news was a failed experiment, as time spent on FB has declined the past two years  —  Getty Images / John Paczkowski, BuzzFeed News  —  When news broke on Thursday evening of Facebook's dramatic overhaul of its News Feed …
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Fred Vogelstein / Wired:
Facebook's head of News Feed Adam Mosseri says the recently announced overhaul, designed to help people better connect, will result in less video appearing  —  Facebook on Thursday announced sweeping changes to the way it plans to manage the newsfeed, the front door to the service for its 2 billion monthly users.
Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
Facebook's News Feed changes liberate the media industry from Facebook's whims; journalism engineered for an algorithm is not journalism, it's marketing
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
Condé Nast to issue a code of conduct this month and stop working with photographers Bruce Weber and Mario Testino, who were accused of sexual harassment  —  Condé Nast, publisher of some of the glossiest magazines in the world, is changing the way it does business.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
While most media handled the use of “shithole” with professionalism, fewer were successful in exploring the racist thinking behind it  —  From Harry Truman's “dumb son of a b—  " assessment of General Douglas MacArthur to Richard B. Cheney's rude suggestion about what Sen. Patrick J. Leahy …
Nick Turse / The Intercept:
How the Pentagon's Africa Command shunned one journalist after his reporting on tough issues like torture by local forces at a drone base used by the US  —  Conversations with military spokespeople can be curt, even confrontational, but they are not supposed to go this way.
Noreen Malone / The Cut:
Footage from January 2016 shows MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews joking about a “Bill Cosby pill” during Hillary Clinton interview setup; Matthews apologizes  —  On January 5, 2016, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews interviewed Hillary Clinton in an Iowa fire station during the Democratic primary season.
David Marchese / Vulture:
Interview with NPR Fresh Air host Terry Gross on the art of the Q&A, the guest that most surprised her, and how she salvages a tanking interview  —  “I wouldn't be able to keep doing my job,” says Fresh Air host Terry Gross, sitting in her book-lined office at Philadelphia's WHYY radio station …
Mia Shuang Li / Columbia Journalism Review:
In China, influencers posting news catering to readers' interests on WeChat are replacing distrusted legacy media, though they are also subject to censorship  —  Editor's note: This article is the first of two in a series on WeChat.  The second, “WeChat reaches audiences conventional media in China cannot” can be found here.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
TiVo's Rovi subsidiary files lawsuit alleging Comcast's X1 platform infringes eight patents; Comcast says its own engineers created the X1 products and services  —  TiVo has launched a new legal attack on Comcast aimed a pushing the cable giant to reach a settlement to license TiVo-owned patents.
John Eggerton / Multichannel News:
Nonprofit Sports Fans Coalition to launch Locast in NY, a free streaming service, beginning with NFL playoffs, says it does not need broadcasters' permission  —  Sports Fans Coalition says it does not need broadcasters' permission to ‘Lowcast’  —  The nonprofit Sports Fans Coalition …
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Christopher D. Cook / Columbia Journalism Review:
Koch Foundation's $80K donation to American Society of News Editors for freedom of information hotline adds to concerns the Kochs are “whitewashing” image  —  Charles Koch, head of Koch Industries, gives a talk on February 26, 2007.  (Bo Rader/Wichita Eagle/MCT via Getty Images)
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Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast:
Leaked DAU metrics from April to September show that only 20% of Snapchat users consume content from Discover Edition daily  —  Snapchat takes its secrecy seriously.  Very, very seriously.  —  Take the case of one former Snapchat employee.  On his first day, he was forced to sit through …
 
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
FX study: in 2017, led by streaming services, the number of original shows hit a new high of 487; number of new basic cable series has been falling since 2015
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Without Ailes “there's absolutely no direction”, says Fox host; hosts, producers, and executives worry about Fox's future with so much programming tied to Trump
Jamie Williams / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
The Ninth Circuit says scraping in violation of a site's ToS is not a crime when taking the data itself is permitted, in recent Oracle v. Rimini case
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The Wrap:
Sources: Viacom and CBS vice-chairwoman Shari Redstone to consider a merger of the two media companies; Redstone's National Amusements controls both companies
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Screenshots show the coordinated harassment campaigns against conservative media by Twitter trolls who support far-right congressional candidate Paul Nehlen
Scott Nover / Poynter:
Critics fault BBC for uneven application of rules that prevent journalists who publicly support Carrie Gracie and equal pay from covering the topic