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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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Business Insider video journalist Trevor Cadigan was one of those killed in the East River helicopter crash in New York on Sunday evening — Two tourists, a journalist and two helicopter employees died aboard a sightseeing chopper that crashed into the East River, police sources said Sunday.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Apple acquires digital newsstand Texture, which gives its readers access to ~200 magazines for $10/month, as it doubles down on content “from trusted sources” — As the debate continues over fake news and the role that aggregators like Facebook have played in spreading it …
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New York Times is launching its first non-fiction narrative podcast, “Caliphate”, with reporter Rukmini Callimachi — “Caliphate,” A Documentary Mini-Series Debuting This Spring, Is The Times's Most Ambitious Form of Audio Storytelling To Date — The New York Times today announced …
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Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Trump's tactic of labelling critical reporting as “fake news” has spread through all levels of government, with lawmakers even using it against local press — An Idaho state lawmaker urges her constituents to submit entries for her “fake news awards.”
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Ex-GOP lawmaker Joe Walsh criticizes Trump over his attack on “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd after the President called the reporter a “son of a bitch” — Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) defended “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd on Sunday after President Trump
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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed:
Musical.ly blocks some search terms related to self-harm and eating disorders after criticism; tags still appear on users' posts — The homepage on the app Musical.ly. — Musical.ly — Musical.ly, the lip-synching app that is wildly popular with younger users, is struggling to catch …
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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MediaMonks:
To broadcast stories that would likely be censored in countries like China, Reporters Without Borders Germany uploaded them as songs to streaming services — Reporters Without Borders Germany teamed up with creative agency DDB Berlin to help journalists get their stories heard in countries with strict press controls.
Bertrand Pecquerie / Global Editors Network:
Q&A with president of Mediapart, a 10-year-old French media organization primarily funded by subscriptions; the site had $17M in revenue in 2017 and ~140K subs — An interview with Mediapart's president and co-founder Edwy Plenel, while the publisher will soon be a decade-old.
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
Three far-right YouTubers, Martin Sellner, Brittany Pettibone, and Lauren Southern have been refused entry into UK for not being “conducive to the public good” — Last week, far-right internet personalities Martin Sellner and Brittany Pettibone announced that they were planning to come to London deliver a speech.
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Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
YouTube could be one of the most powerful radicalizing tools of this century, given its billion users and algorithms that recommend ever more extreme videos — At one point during the 2016 presidential election campaign, I watched a bunch of videos of Donald Trump rallies on YouTube.
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Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Matthew Keys, the ex-Reuters social media editor who was jailed for two years after being convicted of hacking, hopes to return to journalism — “I work hard, and I'm smart, but I do have an uphill battle going forward.” — It's fairly common to hear that people who come out of prison …
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