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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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Renee DiResta / Wired:
As politicians accuse search and social media firms of censorship, the real focus should be on opaque algorithms and reckless amplification of harmful content — THE ALGORITHMS THAT govern how we find information online are once again in the news—but you have to squint to find them.
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New York Times, @karaswisher, @nxthompson, @johnamdg, @fbonacci and @nytopinion, more at Techmeme »
Austin Smith / Nieman Lab:
Overview of progress in digital growth and direct reader support at newspapers owned by civic-minded billionaires, including WaPo, Star Tribune, Boston Globe — In the post-disaggregation era of local news, several individual newspapers have been purchased by very wealthy men …
Discussion:
@tom_winter and Narrow Path
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, @gideonresnick, @digidave, @charliespiering, @ggreenwald, @wesleylowery, @jonfavs, @jayrosen_nyu and The Wrap
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
A look at harassment campaigns and death threats Italian fact-checkers like David Puente face after debunking high profile viral hoaxes — David Puente has been a debunker for years. — From his home in Udine, Italy, he has investigated misinformation — its origins, authors and distribution methods — in his free time since 2014.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
A look at Liker, a social networking site from the founder of Occupy Democrats Facebook page, which is now filled with inaccurate claims about Trump — In the world of the anti-Trump Facebook #Resistance, no one has a bigger soapbox than Omar Rivero, the founder of the Occupy Democrats Facebook page.
Hunter Walk:
Q&A with The Atlantic's Taylor Lorenz on covering internet culture, validating online tips, and why women are doing so well covering tech, culture, and society — I love anthropology even more than I love algorithms. Watching people use my products like Second Life and YouTube …
Discussion:
@hunterwalk and @loudmouthjulia
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 …
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Global Investigative …, @cjr and @cjr
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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@dangillmor
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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@theatlantic, @vwang3, @enbrown and @thecjpearson
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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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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