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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Trump anointed Fox News as state TV with his favoritism of a Fox News reporter and baseless insults of NBC and CNN during a UK news conference — President Trump's penchant for diminishing the fourth estate didn't wither on British soil. “Fake news,” he riffed at various points during …
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@jdawsey1, The Wrap, Politico, CNNMoney, The White House and The Daily Beast
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
CNN is launching CNN Business this fall, consolidating CNN Money, CNN Tech, and CNN Media, will expand tech coverage from SF bureau, plans new streaming service — CNN is launching a new business website and expanding its technology coverage, part of a broader restructuring …
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@rafat and Talking Biz News, Thanks:@steverubel
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
At Facebook event touting its work to combat misinformation, company defends maintaining InfoWars page by saying fake news doesn't violate Community Standards — Parents of Sandy Hook victims sue Alex Jones — Facebook officials struggled on Wednesday to explain why it permits InfoWars …
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Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
Journalists should ask Facebook deeper questions about Infowars, like how downranking false content and flagging by fact-checkers affect reach and advertising — Talk about a PR strategy backfiring dramatically. — On Wednesday, Facebook announced it was going to provide an enormous amount …
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CNET and @mantzarlis
Charles Lewis / The Conversation:
The pace of nonprofit media growth has picked up since 2010: Shorenstein Center study shows 6,568 foundations gave nonprofit media $1.8B between 2010 and 2015 — The man best known for founding the digital classified listing service Craigslist recently gave a New York City journalism school US$20 million.
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@janebsinger and @mcnisbet
Freia Nahser / Global Editors Network:
An overview of experiments with voice AI from The New York Times, the BBC, and the Evening Standard and how they could be monetized through Alexa — Voice assistants are still young and a bit awkward. Content experiences on them aren't always great and it seems that news organisations …
Thanks:@geninnovate
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Fifteen months after launch, traffic and donations at WikiTribune are low, its editor Peter Bale has left, and the majority of stories are written by staff — “'Leadership structure' isn't a very Wiki phrase.” — On June 30, a spam article was posted to WikiTribune, Jimmy Wales' news startup that argued …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
FEMA's report criticizing its own initial response in Puerto Rico shows how wrong Trump was to label early reporting on issues as “fake news” — When Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico last fall, President Trump playfully lobbed rolls of paper towels to those taking shelter.
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@davidbrucesmith, @craigawelch and Daily Kos
Nick Cohen / The New York Review of Books:
The BBC has failed to cover the legal and political scandals behind the Brexit Leave campaign, seeming to prefer to reflect the national mood and not the facts — Late last year, BBC executives had the nerve to erect a bronze statue of George Orwell outside its headquarters in central London.
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Emily Feng / Financial Times:
How Chinese state media spreads its message via 200 nominally independent Chinese language publications around the globe — The latest issue of the UK-Chinese Times, one of the mainstays of Britain's nearly 400,000-strong Chinese-speaking community, splashed on the House of Fraser's plan …
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Fortune
Washington Post:
The Capital Gazette and the Baltimore Sun to receive help from volunteer journalists from across the country at least through the end of summer — By Allison Klein July 10 Email the author — Journalism is a competitive field. Getting the story first and right is gold.
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New Yorker, @charlesbethea and Susan Reimer
Stephanie Sugars / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Non-white reporters covering US protests say they face additional risks of pepper spray, arrests, and strip searches because police often see them as protesters — “I was just another in a sea of black faces on the other side of a police line," said Christian Gooden, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer …
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