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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Sinclair Broadcast Group solicits its news directors for its political fundraising efforts — The nation's largest TV station owner is gearing up to fight for deregulation, and it wants some of its own newsroom managers to join the effort. — Sinclair Broadcast Group is asking its executives …
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Jennifer Wadsworth / San Jose Inside:
Bay Area News Group follows 27+ employee buyouts with layoffs of more than two dozen at papers including the Mercury News — Bay Area News Group—the Digital First Media chain that includes the Mercury News and several South Bay community newspapers—went through yet another downsizing this week.
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Leaked recording: in a meeting with editors Newsweek exec blamed journalists for magazine's turmoil, didn't answer whether company committed financial crimes — During a private meeting with editors this week, a top Newsweek executive blamed his own journalists for the magazine's recent turmoil …
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Rossalyn Warren / BuzzFeed:
Newsweek Media Group's Dayan Candappa to remain chief content officer after investigation following a report of sexual harassment at his previous job
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David Westphal / Columbia Journalism Review:
Charleston Gazette-Mail sees hope after charitable subsidy from Report for America and ProPublica that should cover about 15% of its news reporting salaries — Image via Pexels. — Within the span of a few weeks, the award-winning staff of the Charleston Gazette-Mail has witnessed …
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Tyler McCall / Fashionista:
Interview with NYT Styles section editor Choire Sicha on how he got started in his career, his time at Gawker, building The Awl, his current goals, more — In our long-running series, “How I'm Making It,” we talk to people making a living in the fashion and beauty industries about how they broke in and found success.
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Richard Deitsch / Sports Illustrated:
Interview with five reporters working the Nassar case on their sources, reporting on sexual abuse, why Nassar didn't get national coverage earlier, and more — - For more than a year, journalists at various outlets devoted their reporting to coverage of Larry Nassar, USA Gymnastics and Michigan State.
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Graham Vyse / New Republic:
The New York Times faces more criticism from the left, even as its investigations get praise, as some fear staffers are overcompensating for attacks from right — The paper has been accused of everything from electing Trump to normalizing neo-Nazis. Are its liberal critics right or unreasonable?
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian:
Exiled Cambodian politician sues Facebook, seeking information to prove the prime minister of Cambodia bought millions of Likes in order to appear popular — Exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy claims prime minister bought ‘likes’ to appear popular … The exiled Cambodian politician Sam Rainsy …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
YouTube says creators posting videos harmful to users may lose their monetization options and eligibility to be recommended on the platform — After barring Logan Paul earlier today from serving ads on his video channel, YouTube has now announced a more formal and wider set of sanctions it's prepared …
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Carolyn Twersky / thecut:
Hanya Yanagihara, EIC of NYT's T Magazine, to launch refreshed print and online edition that embraces a sense of urgency in “a moment of crisis” on Feb. 18 — In a moment when New York is about to be flushed with the glow of Fashion Week — when stories of politics and news …
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Apple adds support for live news to its TV app on iOS and Apple TV with streams from CBS News, CNN, Fox News, Cheddar, CNBC, and Bloomberg — After teasing the feature back in September, Apple is adding support for live news in the TV app on the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV — 9to5mac first spotted the new section.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Study: crowdsourced trustworthiness ratings that exclude people unfamiliar with a given site are less effective since unfamiliarity is an important signal — A new study finds asking Facebook users about publishers could “be quite effective in decreasing the amount of misinformation …
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