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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
Facebook should explain how it will design surveys ranking trust in news sources, whether media can contest rank, whether user ideologies will be a factor, more — Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that Facebook will begin surveying users about which news sources they trust, in an effort to rank publications on “trustworthiness.”
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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to survey users to measure trust in publications, data will affect News Feed rankings; news will make up 4% of News Feed posts, down from 5%
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Simon van Zuylen-Wood / New York Magazine:
Profile of Glenn Greenwald, who is consistently skeptical of Trump-Russia ties and DC power structures, and who now positions himself as a fierce media critic — It's 10:45 p.m. Rio de Janeiro time. Glenn Greenwald and I are finishing dinner at a deserted bistro in Ipanema.
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Dan Rather, 86, to launch a weekly half-hour show, The News With Dan Rather, with The Young Turks Network starting Monday, aiming to add context to news — Former “CBS Evening News” anchor Dan Rather wasn't too familiar with The Young Turks Network when he took a meeting …
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Pavlena Todorova / Press Gazette:
Journalist James O'Brien steps down from role at BBC Newsnight, citing reluctance to stop criticizing Brexit and Trump — James O'Brien has parted ways with BBC's Newsnight. — The broadcaster is an open critic of Brexit and US President Donald Trump, views which he airs on his daily LBC radio show.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Profile of Robyn Tomlin, recently named McClatchy's regional editor overseeing eight newspapers in the Carolinas — Robyn Tomlin remembers, all too well, the high school teacher who tried to persuade her to drop out of school. — “She basically told me I didn't belong there anymore,” Tomlin said.
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Twitter to email 670K+ US users who interacted with tweets from Russia's Internet Research Agency, found 50K+ Russia-linked bots tweeting election content — When we appeared before the United States Congress last fall, Twitter publicly committed to regularly updating both congressional committees …
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Karen K. Ho / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Marshall Project's staff survey shows 43% of editorial staff identifies as black, Asian, Latino, or of two or more races, and women make up 48% of newsroom — Simone Weichselbaum, staff writer and diversity chair at The Marshall Project. Courtesy photo.
Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:
Digital First Media's Denver Post launches $11.99 per month paywall after taking down previous paywall in 2015 — The Denver Post's downtown office. Most reporters are moving into a new office in a printing facility in a neighboring county as part of a cost-cutting effort. Chelsea Nesvig, via Flickr
Casey Michel / ThinkProgress:
A look at the rise and fall of Louise Mensch, Eric Garland, and other members of the citizen-journalist platoon that promoted Trump-Russian conspiracy theories — A year later, why does anyone still listen to Seth Abramson? — A year ago, as Donald Trump prepared to take office …
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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki pledge to closely monitor each service for fake news, ahead of US midterm elections — Pichai: it's fair to be worried about artificial intelligence — CEO says work is changing and training is needed for new jobs
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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Analysis: CNN has half as many solo female anchors on weekdays as Fox News and MSNBC; Fox News led with 15 hours of on-air time for female anchors — CNN has half as many solo female hosts as its competitors — and none in primetime — CNN has significantly fewer women serving in visible …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Profile of the National Observer, a site founded in 2015, which has 10 full-time employees in Ottawa and Vancouver and won a National Newspaper Award in 2017 — “This is all going on in my apartment. My kids were small and running around, there were always interns here.
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