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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 — Federal investigators have an audio recording in which then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and his personal attorney Michael Cohen discussed …
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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 …
Discussion:
Slate
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 |
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ASU Now and @news_collab
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.
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 …
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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.
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@rsingel
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.
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Poynter
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
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:
ABC News, Fortune and The Guardian
Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz:
Report: Reed Hastings is writing a book about Netflix, his leadership strategy, and the company's culture, which will be published by Penguin Press in 2019 — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings prides himself on making as few decisions as possible at the streaming-video service he founded.
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CNET, Fast Company and Variety
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