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8:20 AM ET, January 22, 2018

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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%  —  Tech giant will rely on user surveys of trustworthiness to try to preserve objectivity  —  Facebook Inc. FB .57% plans to start ranking news sources …
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.
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 …
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.
Karen K. Ho / Columbia Journalism Review:
Twitter:
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 …
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.
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
Discussion: The Verge
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 …
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
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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Dave Brooks / Amplify:
A look at Ticketmaster's $110M settlement of a lawsuit by Songkick, after Songkick was acquired by Warner Music Group, according to SEC filing
Howard Polskin / MediaShift:
In December FoxNews.com had 312.7M global visits, Breitbart had 81M; 22% of Infowars' audience comes from overseas according to SimilarWeb and TheRighting.com
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Tech journalist Joshua Fruhlinger and fintech company Thinknum launch Thinknum Media, which will produce public-facing stories using Thinknum's data
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
Inside the lives of social media stars' parents who are mastering new platforms, dealing with shady agents, and focused on the physical safety of their kids
Eric Johnson / Recode:
NYU professor Jay Rosen says interviewing the president no longer has any value: “It doesn't necessarily mean anything about his policies”
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix's new docuseries lineup includes a Vox explainer show and Flint Town, an eight-part series exploring the aftermath of Flint, Michigan's water crisis
Discussion: @tcarmody
Sarah Rabil / Wall Street Journal:
Ross Levinsohn, publisher and CEO of LA Times, to take an unpaid leave of absence as Tronc hires outside law firm to investigate allegations of misconduct
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Google suspends Reviewed Claims fact-checking feature after criticism from conservative news outlets over erroneous link debunking a Daily Caller story
Discussion: The Daily Caller