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New York Times:
60 Minutes moves forward in preparing segment with Stephanie Clifford, who says she had affair with Trump; source: show has not received notice of legal action — The CBS News program “60 Minutes” was moving forward with plans to show an interview it conducted last week with the pornographic film actress …
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Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:
Twitter has suspended several accounts, some with millions of followers, that allegedly engaged in tweet stealing and “tweetdecking”, mass-retweeting each other — The Tweetdeckoning is nigh. — @Dory, @GirlPosts, @SoDamnTrue, Girl Code/@reiatabie, Common White Girl/@commonwhitegiri …
Kathleen Chaykowski / Forbes:
A deep dive into Facebook's big bet on expertise in AR; CTO Mike Schroepfer says the company needs it to remain relevant in 10 or 20 years — Mark Zuckerberg got his first taste of the Oculus Rift, the pioneering virtual reality headset, in January 2014. Standing in one of the few Facebook …
April Glaser / Slate:
Investigations reveal discussion groups, online communities, and user-made games on Steam that glorify school shooters and mass shootings — As the country continues to debate gun violence in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, we've seen some of the usual misdirected discussion of whether video games bear some responsibility.
Zach Schonfeld / Newsweek:
Interview with Bob Woodward on teaching investigative journalism, Janet Cooke, Nixon, Harvey Weinstein, and Trump — Want to bring down Donald Trump? — Don't count on Robert Mueller. Forget Congress. Learn to do investigative journalism. And you might as well study …
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Mediaite
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Inside The Globe and Mail's Lab 351, an in-house incubator that allows employees to pitch and build out new ideas for solving the organization's problems — A driving principle for the incubator is to make it so “ideas can bubble up from the bottom, or the middle, or the top” of the organization.
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Behind Forbidden Facts, a website that is trying to educate people about fake news by publishing false news stories on Facebook with clickbait headlines — At a technology summit in Brussels, Maarten Schenk had a harebrained idea. — “We were brainstorming and thinking about how to reach people …
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
A look at Meredith Corporation after its purchase of Time Inc. for $2.8B: 17 TV stations, 50 websites, and 40 magazines, some of which are likely to be sold — DES MOINES — Steve Lacy greeted me in his office as if we were old friends. — A top executive at the Meredith Corporation …
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Robert Booth / The Guardian:
BBC again urges UN to help protect journalists and their families from harassment by Iranian authorities, following an urgent appeal to UN rapporteurs last Oct — Corporation says attempts to persuade Iranian authorities to desist have been ignored … The BBC is appealing to the United Nations …
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Middle East Eye
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Interview with YouTube's chief business officer, Robert Kyncl, on managing the Logan Paul controversy, accusations that YouTube is politically biased, and more — “We should have done better,” the chief business officer says of how the company handled the star's widely condemned vlog …
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Polygon
Gabriele Boland / NewsWhip:
Study: reporters driving Facebook engagement come from hyper-partisan sources like Breitbart and the Daily Wire; two in the top 50 write for fake news sites — With social platforms like Facebook putting an emphasis on meaningful engagements, publishers and content creators have to reassess …
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@jason_kint
Joseph Lichterman / The Lenfest Institute …:
A look at WTF Just Happened Today, a member-supported two-man daily news outlet that fosters community by welcoming members' skills and expertise — Most weekday afternoons, freelance editor Susanna J. Sturgis takes a few minutes out of her day to edit the latest post on What The Fuck Just Happened Today? …
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