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Christopher Robbins / Gothamist:
Leaked audio: Village Voice owner tells staff publication will cease posting stories, 15-20 staff to remain to “wind things down” and work on an online archive — Three years after buying The Village Voice, and a year after the paper shut down its print edition …
The Daily Beast:
Sources describe how Ronan Farrow's work on Harvey Weinstein died at NBC News: pressure via Weinstein lawyers and NBC general counsel, lack of executive support — Ronan Farrow had already left NBC News. But a top lawyer at the network threatened to smear him if he continued to pursue the Hollywood mogul …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
The political journalism of the nineties and aughts, in which politics was covered like a tactical game using sports metaphors, is inadequate in today's climate — Traditional political journalists were the last people to notice in 2016 that the world had changed.
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@buzzfeedben, @digidave, @wesleylowery, @jonfavs, @ggreenwald, @charliespiering, The Wrap and @jayrosen_nyu
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Texas judge declines to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against Alex Jones brought by the family of Sandy Hook victim Noah Pozner — A judge ruled against the Infowars host, who had argued his repeated attacks on the grieving parents were protected by the First Amendment.
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n+1:
Social media, metrics, bad faith readers, columnists, instant and bad takes, blogosphere nostalgia, and online abuse have created an op-ed internet culture — Each this is not to say or in other words a dull sword wielded against willful misunderstanding — HAVE EDITORS EVER KNOWN SO MUCH about their readers?
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Billy Penn, Denverite, and The Incline have a combined 1,500 paying customers, 60% of whom are recurring contributors after a shift to a reader supported model — The three sites together are “just south of 1,500 paying customers,” 60 percent of whom are signed up as recurring contributors …
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Two months after launch, Instagram's IGTV remains an experiment for some publishers, without much dedicated investment until a revenue model becomes clearer — Discovery should have as good an idea as any media company as to how Instagram's IGTV is panning out for publishers.
Emily Dugan / BuzzFeed:
In 2017, the UK's Home Office created a rapid response strategy to solve immigration cases that made headlines; critics say it creates a double standard — Exclusive: Lawyers say a rapid-response process introduced by then home secretary Amber Rudd in 2017 creates a double standard.
PTI / Times of India:
WhatsApp rolls out radio campaigns across 46 Hindi stations in India asking users to check the veracity of the information they receive before forwarding — NEW DELHI: In a bid to crackdown on spread of fake news on its platform, WhatsApp on Wednesday said it is rolling …
Discussion:
@sameerpatel, more at Techmeme »
Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press:
A California man has been arrested after allegedly threatening to kill Boston Globe staffers; prosecutors say he called employees the “enemy of the people” — BOSTON (AP) — A California man upset about The Boston Globe's coordinated editorial response to President Donald Trump's attacks …
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BostonGlobe.com, NPR, @patcunnane, @andylassner, Daily Wire, @jazayerli, Justice News, @tom_winter, CNNMoney and NBC News
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Twitter will exempt news organizations that meet certain requirements from its political and issue advertising policy, leaving their ad buys out of its archive — Twitter says news organizations can apply to be exempt from its political and issue advertising policy as a part of a larger update …
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H.G. Watson / Nieman Lab:
How the Winnipeg Free Press experimented with a feature outside its paywall that saw 24 reporters write stories over 24 hours, all having to do with food — What's the kind of story worth putting outside a hard paywall? The kind of civic storytelling that shows that you're “covering the city like no one else.”
National Union of Journalists:
Two journalists in Northern Ireland are arrested, computers confiscated in connection with alleged theft of police documents related to No Stone Unturned film — The National Union of Journalists has expressed “grave concern” at the arrests this morning of two journalists in Northern Ireland.
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@lyramckee, @lyramckee and BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
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