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Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
Kara Swisher and Jack Dorsey's #KaraJack chat showed Twitter needs major product fixes to make it easier to follow complex public conversations — Without major fixes to the product, the platform will never be a place for complex discussions. — Earlier this week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey …
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Poynter:
Outgoing director of the International Fact-Checking Network reflects on how fact-checking changed since 2015, dealing with platforms like Facebook, and more — So long, fact-checkers … When I started as director of the International Fact-Checking Network in September 2015, there was very little there to direct.
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@newslitproject, @politifact, @firstdraftnews, @digiphile, @dpfunke, Nieman Lab, @janebsinger and @mantzarlis
Anna Altman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters, who has been closely tracking how Fox News coverage influences Trump's tweets since 2017 — “There's a saying in politics that personnel is policy,” Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters, said on a recent afternoon.
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@mattgertz, @mattgertz, @susannahchen, @mattgertz, @mattgertz, @mattgertz and Washington Post
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Brazilian fact-checker AosFatos.org describes how it found an estimated 3M visits to fake news sites allegedly connected to its impersonator AosFatos.com — Someone is publishing fake news stories on a website that looks like a fact-checking organization. — On Wednesday, Brazilian fact …
Loyola Phoenix:
In editorial, journalists at Loyola University's newspaper describe how the university communications office has restricted media access to professors and staff — A Phoenix news reporter, on the trail of a story about Loyola's above-average abundance of women in STEM programs …
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@johnrobinson, @mikemcdtweets, @crampell and @royalpratt
Ashley Baker / Daily Front Row:
Interview with Conde Nast CRO Pamela Drucker Mann on transition from a publishing company to a full-fledged media company, content partnerships, and more — Bob is out and a new CEO is (eventually) coming... so what exactly is going on at Condé Nast?
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Twitter hides a tweet, reportedly from Iran's head of state, for pointing out that a previous leader's verdict to murder novelist Salman Rushdie is still valid — Twitter removed a tweet from an account that reportedly belongs to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Friday …
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@mrejfox, @rmac18, @dabeard and @digiphile, more at Techmeme »
Kali Hays / WWD:
Challenger Gray study: 15.5K jobs cut in news, broadcast news, TV, film, and music in 2018, a 281% increase YoY, of which 11.8K were in news organizations alone — A study from an industry outplacement firm said 2018 was the worst year for media in a decade. This year isn't shaping up so well already.
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@saraschonhardt and @wwd
Rani Molla / Recode:
Profile of NewsGuard, a rare for-profit fact checking startup that uses a team of 25 journalists to rate 2,000+ news outlets, and the challenges it faces — Experts weigh in on whether a for-profit journalism initiative can do what big tech can't. — A battle between fact and fake news …
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@ranimolla, @newsguardrating, @jimwarren55 and @dariasolo
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Great Hill Partners is in exclusive talks with Univision to buy Gizmodo Media Group for an undisclosed sum — Deal would include websites such as Gizmodo, Deadspin, Lifehacker and Jezebel — Great Hill Partners is in exclusive talks with Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications Inc …
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@benmullin, @jayrosen_nyu, @onionincunion, @jeremymbarr, @benmullin and Hollywood Reporter
Duncan Cooper / Pitchfork:
While some artists whose music is used in TikTok videos are compensated through their labels' sales of blanket licenses, others forgo payment for exposure — The company behind lip-sync app TikTok is reportedly worth three times as much as Spotify, but the artists whose music powers the platform are seeing very little of that money.
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@getalternative and @mattnavarra, more at Techmeme »
Amy X. Wang / Rolling Stone:
Interview with the Swedish social science research team behind Spotify Teardown, a forthcoming book that takes a deep look at the music streaming giant — Researchers behind the controversial new book into Spotify's operations chat with Rolling Stone about their most surprising findings
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