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How Devumi uses its 3.5M+ automated Twitter accounts, sometimes based on stolen social identities, to sell followers and retweets to 200K+ customers — Everyone wants to be popular online. — Some even pay for it. — Inside social media's black market.
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LA Times staffers fear that a secretive new management team appears to be quietly building a non-union shadow national newsroom — A mysterious new management team appears to be quietly building a non-union network. — As lunch was winding down Wednesday in the Los Angeles Times cafeteria …
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Tronc refuses to answer staff questions about Los Angeles Times Network LLC, its new content creation, distribution, and syndication entity and associated hires — And why is the Tronc newspaper treating its own newsroom as a group not to be trusted? — All of the furor consuming …
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Richard Deitsch / Sports Illustrated:
Jemele Hill, the ESPN anchor called out by Trump in a tweet after she called him a white supremacist, is leaving SportsCenter to join The Undefeated — ESPN's SportsCenter will need a new co-host as Jemele Hill is expected to leave the show for a position with The Undefeated.
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Nick Fernandez / Media Matters for America:
In June 2017, Hannity and guests called on Robert Mueller to resign, recuse himself, or be fired 39 times, claimed Mueller had a conflict of interest 102 times — The New York Times reported that in June 2017, President Donald Trump ordered White House counsel Don McGahn to fire special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti, on Facebook's News Feed changes and lack of revenue sharing, BuzzFeed's revenue miss in 2017, and more — Photo courtesy BuzzFeed. — BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti is the kind of guy who never sees the cloud, only the silver lining, no matter how dark things get.
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Pete Vernon / Columbia Journalism Review:
Fox News' dismissal of New York Times' scoop on Trump's attempt to fire Mueller illustrates the growing distance between Fox and the rest of the media — For a moment last night, the winter chill was replaced with memories of May. The New York Times's was responsible for the time warp …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
European Data Journalism Network has 15 partners who produce data-driven stories translated into six languages and distributed free to partner, non-partner orgs — Data-driven news stories produced by members of the European Data Journalism Network are translated into English, French …
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Facebook launches Facebook Journalism Project Scholarship, gives four organizations focused on diversity in journalism $250K each, to offer student scholarships — By Campbell Brown, Head of News Partnerships — The Facebook Journalism Project is committed to supporting the next generation of journalists.
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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Bay Area local news site Hoodline launches an automated wire service that packages data and editorial content for local newsrooms in smaller markets nationwide — Local news is kind of a mess. While the global platforms have been exploding, making it easier to follow events at a world wide level, local news sources have atrophied.
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Reuters:
China's Bytedance partners with BuzzFeed to distribute its content on Toutiao, though how Toutiao will select content not subject to censorship is unclear — BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A popular Chinese news portal has signed a deal with U.S. online media company BuzzFeed to distribute …
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Media Matters for America:
Cable news outlets CNN, Fox, and MSNBC devoted a scant 16+ minutes total to coverage of the Kentucky high school shooting — A deadly shooting rampage at a Kentucky high school that left two students dead and 18 others wounded received minimal coverage on cable news the day of the shooting.
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