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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Study finds that of the 700K+ Twitter accounts that linked to 600+ sites spreading misinformation in 2016, more than 80% are still active and many are bots — Twitter is still rife with “fake news” a month out from the 2018 midterms, with more than 80 percent of the accounts …
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Nieman Lab, Knight Foundation, Poynter and NPR
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
With its investigation of Trump's wealth, the NYT acknowledged its past role in glorifying Trump's negotiating skills and found the proof for what some assumed — We live at a time when journalism can land with great force. The epic investigation published Tuesday by The New York Times …
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Melina Delkic / New York Times:
How three New York Times reporters spent over a year combing through 100K+ documents and interviewing people to uncover the source of Trump's wealth
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Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Ken Ward Jr., a veteran reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail and the Charleston Gazette in West Virginia, gets a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation — Your support makes that possible — subscribe today — Your support makes that possible — subscribe today
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
CNN launches CNN Business, a site with a focus on how tech affects other business sectors, and opens a San Francisco bureau as it shuts down CNNMoney — CNN is taking the wraps off its new business site, CNN Business, to reflect an increased emphasis on Silicon Valley.
Trey Williams / The Wrap:
CEO of the owner of MoviePass says the company raised $65M in September and that subscribers are going to less than one movie a month on average — TheGrill 2018: “We've been the underdog since August 15 of last year... we're still here, and we're not going anywhere," Helios & Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth says
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CNBC:
Barnes & Noble to look at strategic alternatives including a possible sale, after receiving interest from multiple parties including Chairman Leonard Riggio — - The announcement follows expressions of interest from multiple parties, including its chairman Leonard Riggio, it said in a statement.
Sinéad Baker / Business Insider:
Wikipedia initially rejected a page for scientist Donna Strickland in May due to lack of “significant coverage”, then built a page after she won a Nobel Prize — - Dr. Donna Strickland jointly won the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday, but she did not have a Wikipedia page until then.
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Unilad parent company goes into administration with £6M+ in debt; Linton Capital, RocketSports have made a £10M offer to acquire the publisher with some layoffs — Hundreds of jobs at risk with parent company owing £6m and administration looming
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The Drum
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Turkish court upholds life sentences without parole for four journalists; Turkey has 73 journalists in jail, more than any other country — An Istanbul court of appeals yesterday upheld the sentences of life in prison without parole handed to four prominent Turkish journalists in February, media reported.
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Globe Post Turkey, Reuters, Jerusalem Post, Globe Post Turkey, Ahval and Kurdistan24
Daniel Frankel / Multichannel News:
Cheddar is using Synacor and its Cloud ID platform to give free access to viewers via YouTube TV and Hulu with Live TV — Buffalo tech vendor says its cloud-based identity management tool is being use by digital news platform for vMVPD authentication — Buffalo, NY-based pay TV software …
Joe Eskenazi / Mission Local:
Layoffs loom at San Francisco magazine, part of the Modern Luxury chain, as owners seek higher profits through a leaner magazine budget — FORMER EDITOR: “I KNEW THE WRITING WAS ON THE WALL.” — Over the past several years, San Francisco Magazine has, consistently, told some of the best-researched …
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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen estimates 20M+ viewers watched Kavanaugh hearings on TV, 11M+ via cable; Fox News averaged 5.7M viewers to beat CNN and MSNBC's total combined — Coverage peaked during Kavanaugh testimony with 7.2 million viewers on Fox News alone. — Thursday's testimonies from Supreme Court …
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Korea orders police and prosecutors to investigate and punish those who “generate fake news with malicious intent and systemically spread it” — SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea announced a sweeping crackdown on “fake news” on Tuesday, calling it “a destroyer of democracy.”
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The Verge and @koreanforeigner
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