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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 …
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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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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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Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Study of 299 US adults shows that when people are exposed to tweets containing “fake news”, their ability to tell real from fraudulent stories decreases — Russian trolls? Fake news. — Hate speech? Fake news. — Iranian disinformation? Fake news.
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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?
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Sources: Trump's Rose Garden videos are meant to make him feel good, remind him of his earlier digital media virality, and allow him to control the aesthetics — You may be wondering why, throughout the second half of August, the president of the United States has been standing in the Rose Garden and yelling.
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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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Lynne O'Donnell / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalism in Afghanistan, once blooming thanks to a new constitution and international aid, has suffered due to the drawdown of troops and attacks on reporters — The funeral of AFP photographer Shah Marai. Photo courtesy Andrew Quilty. — Journalism in Afghanistan …
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
In interviews, teenagers said they viewed all media as biased to a certain extent and prefer to follow individual journalists and political Instagram pages — Young people can see the president's tweets as jokes, but they still often share his negative feelings about the press.
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Hell World:
Q&A with NBC News' Ben Collins on covering extremist and online conspiracy theorists, remaining mentally healthy while covering violence, and QAnon — The last believers in an ordered universe — Yesterday in Hell World we heard from three reporters who regularly cover the world …
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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.
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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 …
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