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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Sources: AMI's David Pecker and chief content officer Dylan Howard were granted immunity so they would describe Trump's role in payments to Daniels and McDougal — David Pecker and Dylan Howard corroborated Michael Cohen's account implicating the president in a federal crime.
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Jeff Horwitz / Associated Press:
Sources: Enquirer used a safe for documents about payments and stories it killed as part of ties with Trump; Enquirer first promoted Trump for president in 2010 — WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories …
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Felix Salmon / Slate:
A New York Times article on a preliminary study of Facebook use and hate crimes in Germany overstated the complicated study's conclusions — In December 2017, a pair of Warwick University post-docs, Karsten Müller and Carlo Schwarz, published an intriguing and clever attempt …
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Motherboard:
Leaked docs and sources describe Facebook's content moderation apparatus and the logistics of trying to moderate billions of posts a week in 100+ languages — Moderating billions of posts a week in more than a hundred languages has become Facebook's biggest challenge.
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Sources: LA-based Fox News journalist Adam Housley has resigned from the network over its increased focus on Trump and diminished opportunities for reporters — In the Trump era, hard reporting is being crowded out by opinionated panels, current and former staffers say.
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Phillip Picardi, chief content officer of Condé Nast's Teen Vogue, is leaving to become EIC of Out magazine, which focuses on LGBTQ lifestyle and entertainment — Picardi, a rising star at the troubled magazine publisher, will be editor of Out magazine
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Adweek, @cmclymer and New York Post
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Hearst has ended its Snapchat daily digital magazine, Sweet, but will repurpose the brand with a new show; some staff members have been cut — Even Snapchat publishers are switching to video. — Hearst's Sweet, the first Snapchat-only media property, is closing its daily digital magazine …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Reveal has launched Reveal Local Labs, a two-year effort funded by the Knight Foundation to aid collaboration in investigative reporting among local newsrooms — Reveal, the multiplatform publishing arm of the Center for Investigative Reporting, has long experimented with different ways …
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Poynter found about 30 Instagram accounts linked to a Los Angeles-based company, Social Cat, impersonating news outlets and public figures; Instagram removed 22 — The accounts look like news organizations, museums and public figures. They publish what appear to be real photos and rack up thousands of followers.
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@stevemullis, @jgrovum, @dpfunke and @dpfunke
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism:
BuzzFeed Investigations Editor Mark Schoofs is leaving the site to join USC Annenberg's journalism school to teach investigative reporting — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Schoofs is joining the USC Annenberg School of Journalism to teach, train and inspire the next generation of high-impact digital journalists.
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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
A look at SurfSafe, a browser plug-in that cross-references images with 100 trusted news sites and fact-checking organizations to determine if images are fake — WHEN MICHAEL BENNETT played for the Seattle Seahawks, he celebrated wins with a victory dance in the team locker room.
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Laura Wagner / Deadspin:
Sources: The Athletic is struggling to hire reporters for its new D.C. operation, with seven journalists at WaPo's sports desk rejecting offers to move — The Athletic, the venture capital-backed digital sports media venture that's plundering sportswriters from news organizations …
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@ajrod, @dcsportsbog and @ngreenberg
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