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Colin Kroll, the CEO, co-founder of HQ Trivia and co-founder of Vine, has died at 34; police source says a drug overdose is suspected — Colin Kroll, the CEO and co-founder of HQ Trivia, has died of an apparent drug overdose ... TMZ has learned. — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ …
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Louisiana State University:
Study shows that combination of articles defending journalism and fact-checking increased readers' trust in the media while fact-checking articles alone did not — Baton Rouge, LA - In a first-of-its-kind study from Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication …
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John Podhoretz / Commentary:
Shutting down the Weekly Standard is an intellectual and political crime that enables its parent company to harvest its subscriber base for another publication — The Weekly Standard will be no more. There is no real reason we are witnessing the magazine's demise other than deep pettiness …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
The Weekly Standard will publish its last edition on December 17 and shut down after 23 years
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Reuters Institute:
Analysis of 760 articles on AI in six UK news outlets finds 33% of sources were from the industry, ~2x more than from academia, and 6x more than from government — As industry, government, and academia invest in various forms of artificial intelligence, many believe that these rapidly developing technologies …
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Q&A with Le Monde's CEO Louis Dreyfus on its surging digital subscriptions and Skyline, an advertising alliance with Le Figaro, which generated €5M in 10 months — This article appears in the latest issue of Digiday magazine, a quarterly publication that is part of Digiday+.
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Nicaraguan police raid independent news outlet Confidencial, taking away documents, computers, and TV cameras — Nicaraguan police last night broke into one of the country's few remaining independent news organizations and hauled away documents, computers, and TV cameras …
Mike Caulfield / Nieman Lab:
Despite confirmation bias, teaching media literacy works, and it helps mitigate the small mistakes that lead media consumers to radicalization — A few days ago, YouTube star Pewdiepie recommended his 75 million subscribers follow a YouTube account that was associated with promoting alt-right and anti-Semitic content.
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@niemanlab
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
How Bob Bakish turned around Viacom by focusing on content, diversifying into digital programming and live experiences, expanding to India and UK, more — Bob Bakish was days into his job as CEO of Viacom in late 2016 when he began convening meetings with senior executives to execute …
Mandy Jenkins / Nieman Lab:
In 2019, journalists should not abandon social media because billions of people still use it and fake news makers and trolls will gladly fill the vacuum — The news industry these past few years has been a middle schooler with low self-esteem, trailing around after the popular kids at Facebook …
Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
Hulu is launching a new private programmatic marketplace for advertisers to buy its on-demand and TV inventory; the marketplace won't replace upfront deals — Hulu is further automating advertising on the streaming platform with a new private programmatic marketplace.
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Eric Johnson / Recode:
Q&A with Ezra Klein and Kara Swisher on the future of journalism, the decline of scoops and how Twitter has made journalists dumber, meaner, and more reactive — Klein says Twitter has made journalists dumber, meaner and more reactive. — On the latest episode of Recode Decode …
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Jenée Desmond-Harris / Nieman Lab:
In 2019, journalists should try to be aware of whether their perspectives and the trends they cover are true only for white people or if they apply to everyone — Is it really true that evangelical voters, or women voters, or rural voters or southern voters have a certain outlook?
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