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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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Jay Rosen / FAZ.NET:
An American's thoughts about “pressthink”, the common sense of the journalism profession, in Germany, based on 53 interviews with members of the German media — I have been circulating among you since the first day of June, asking strange questions. This is what I learned.
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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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 …
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@tom_winter
Jeff Horwitz / Associated Press:
Documents show American Media lost $72M for year ending in March; NJ investment firm Chatham Asset Management owns over 80% of AMI and is backstopping its debt — WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Enquirer has long explained its support for Donald Trump as a business decision based on the president's popularity among its readers.
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.
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Paul Tadich / Canadaland:
Inside Canadian network Global's cost-cutting “multi-market content” model, where local news for 12+ markets is produced in Toronto using green screens — Global's late-night local newscasts, from Saskatoon to Halifax, are all produced in a Toronto green-screen studio.
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@canadaland and @goldsbie
Nic Fildes / Financial Times:
BBC, Sky, ITV, Channel 4, BT, and TalkTalk call for UK government to introduce independent regulatory oversight of the content carried over social networks — The heads of Britain's largest media and telecoms companies have called for the government to introduce independent regulatory oversight …
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 …
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@hunterwalk and @loudmouthjulia
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.
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
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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