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Washington Post:
Sources: in FBI-seized audio recording, Trump and Cohen discuss possible payment to National Enquirer parent AMI after media company paid Karen McDougal $150K — Two months before the 2016 election, longtime Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen secretly taped a conversation …
Discussion:
New York Times, CNNMoney, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Law & Crime, @kylegriffin1, @kylegriffin1, Jezebel, @pbump, @carolleonnig and @amyfiscus
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
WhatsApp to test limiting the forwarding of messages to 20 chats globally and 5 chats in India in a bid to stop the spread of fake news — The social messaging service has been blamed for its role in spreading dangerous and inaccurate information. — Facebook-owned WhatsApp is making changes …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Ta-Nehisi Coates to leave the Atlantic saying, “I became the public face of the magazine in many ways and I don't really want to be that. I want to be a writer” — Ta-Nehisi Coates is leaving his position as a national correspondent for the Atlantic, a publication where he has emerged …
Thomas Curwen / Los Angeles Times:
Remembering the eccentric Times Mirror Square as the Los Angeles Times moves out of its longtime downtown headquarters — The headlines from Washington — Nixon and the Watergate hearings — seemed far away as guests strolled through the new corporate headquarters for Times Mirror Co.
Discussion:
@mattdpearce and Poynter
Pew Research Center:
Study shows 58% of Americans often get news on a mobile device, nearly triple the 21% who did so in 2013, outpacing desktops and laptops — Mobile devices have become one of the most common ways Americans get news, outpacing desktop or laptop computers. Roughly six-in-ten U.S. adults …
Abdi Latif Dahir / Quartz:
As more African governments restrict internet access, activists push back by calling them out, educating users on workarounds, and even hacking government sites — First, it was “gossip” that supposedly pushed Uganda's government to introduce a tax on social media use.
Kristy Roschke / News Co/Lab:
Study: “fake news” associated with local news 3% of the time; those who associate “news” with “fake” have more trouble telling fact from opinion — A survey by the News Co/Lab at Arizona State University and Google Surveys. — Executive Summary |
Discussion:
ASU Now and @news_collab
Scott Porch / Fast Company:
How Comcast is moving beyond the set top box as it rolls out its Xfinity X1 interface on smart TVs, starting with betas on Roku TV and some Samsung TVs — If you'd like to use the interface on Comcast's Xfinity X1 set-top box—and you should, it's fantastic—but aren't so sure about the box itself, stay tuned.
Discussion:
@rsingel
Washington Post:
US Senate candidate accuses NYT reporter Stephanie Saul of breaking into an aide's apartment after Saul left an interview request note with a houseguest — Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Corey Stewart has accused a New York Times reporter of breaking into the apartment of a campaign aide …
Discussion:
Mediaite, The Daily Caller and The Daily Beast
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
An interview with Matt Rivitz and Nandini Jammi, who run @SleepingGiants, about raising awareness of where online ads run and why they wanted to be anonymous — Just after the 2016 election, an anonymously run Twitter account emerged with a plan to choke off advertising dollars to Breitbart News …
Discussion:
@miketanier
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty may have acted in violation of laws protecting Americans from domestic propaganda by buying Facebook ads targeted at US users — A broadcasting organization backed by the federal government has used Facebook to target ads at United States citizens …
Discussion:
getrevue.co
Al Tompkins / Poynter:
Journalists resort to yelling questions at the President when they can because it has been more than a year since he held an open press conference — MIAMI - Because the president has not held an open news conference in more than a year, journalists have resorted to shouting questions at him …
Discussion:
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