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Katie Sullivan / Media Matters for America:
NYT, WSJ, Chicago Tribune, and LAT left the report of sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll by Trump off their front pages; WaPo placed it below the fold — A new report of sexual assault committed by President Donald Trump has come to light, but several major newspapers didn't find …
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Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, The Cut, @stuartemmrich, @mlcalderone, @nymag, The Week, Mediaite, CNN, @mollyjongfast, @juliethuddytv, @mollyjongfast, @mimirocah1, @mikegravel, @anildash, @ericboehlert, @andrewlavallee, @latrioli, @brianstelter, @davidcorndc, @jayrosen_nyu, Jezebel, Splinter, bookforum.com, New York Times and Slate
Full Fact:
“Second generation” fact-checkers like Full Fact aim not only to publish but to apply moral, public, or regulatory pressure to stop the spread of misinformation — AFRICA CHECK, CHEQUEADO, AND FULL FACT — Fact checkers need to move from ‘publish and pray’ to ‘publish and act’
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Nieman Lab
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
News Corp tabloid the Herald Sun offers journalists cash bonuses between $10 and $50 for driving digital subscriptions and traffic through their own stories — Reporters to be financially rewarded if readers subscribe to site and reach certain number of page views
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The Drum, @chrismsutcliffe, @earleyedition, @mmasnick, @jayrosen_nyu, @bencubby, @jo_tovey and @reckless
Seth Harp / The Intercept:
An American journalist describes his experience of being detained upon return to the US as CBP thoroughly searched his digital devices including personal data — I should have kept my mouth shut about the guacamole; that made things worse for me. Otherwise, what I'm about to describe …
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@tara_atrandom, @natashabertrand, @smotus, @jerometaylor, @chastell, @barry_yeoman, @jaomahony, @azadessa, @living_marble, @cwarzel, @rodneydp, @mbrence, @theintercept, @turkewitz, @jameeljaffer and @mepfuller
Samira Sadeque / The Daily Dot:
Ravelry, a social networking site for knitting with ~829K MAUs, bans all posts supportive of the Trump administration, which it claims supports white supremacy — Ravelry, the leading social networking website for knitting activities, banned posts that are supportive of President Donald Trump and his administration.
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Ravelry, Fast Company, Business Insider, TechCrunch, @joycewhitevance, @jessesingal and Vickie Howell, more at Techmeme »
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
A look at some egregious cases of counterfeit books sold on Amazon; this year Amazon began listing sales of counterfeit goods as a material risk in SEC filings — SPERRYVILLE, Va. — “The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy” is a medical handbook that recommends the right amount …
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@nytimesbusiness, @mobylives, @danitrussoni, @amazonnews and @bubbaprog, more at Techmeme »
CNN:
NYPD arrested 66 people who were protesting the NYT's coverage of climate change; protesters were calling for greater urgency and daily headlines on the topic — (CNN)Sixty-six people were arrested outside of The New York Times building in Manhattan on Saturday, according …
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The Guardian, Reuters, The Hill, Washington Times, Fox News, @jeffnesbit, New York Post, @jswatz, Slate and Newser
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
ThinkProgress editor Joe Romm and ex-Fox News reporter Carl Cameron team up to launch FrontPageLive.com, pitched as a liberal antidote to the Drudge Report — When folks leave Fox News, they quite often pursue projects that align with the worldview of their former employer.
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@erikwemple, @authorkimberley and @badfoxgraphics
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Gawker editor Ben Barna has left ahead of its fall relaunch and been replaced by a Time editor; the site's only two full-time writers quit in January — In the latest sign of editorial turbulence, the number two editor at the yet-to-relaunch Gawker is returning to Interview …
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@ashleyfeinberg
Lane Sainty / BuzzFeed:
Australian judge allows man to sue media companies for defamation over Facebook comments written by their readers — Former youth detainee Dylan Voller is suing News Corp, Fairfax Media and Sky News. — BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia — Dylan Voller, the Aboriginal man …
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The Guardian, @kismith, @joshgnosis, ABC, @mmasnick, Gizmodo and Sydney Morning Herald
David Bauder / Associated Press:
A look at the dramatic changes in media coverage of LGBTQ issues, 50 years since the Stonewall riots that galvanized the LGBTQ rights movement — NEW YORK (AP) — During the 1969 series of riots that followed a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, the New York Daily News headlined a story …
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@apeastregion
Hollywood Reporter:
WarnerMedia CEO names BBC executive Ann Sarnoff as Warner Bros. Chair and CEO to replace ousted chief Kevin Tsujihara — With the former BBC executive, WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey finds a leader with the operational chops to woo the telecom giant's Dallas-based top brass.
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Variety, Multichannel News, CNN, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, Business Wire, @thrmattbelloni and The Week
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump threatened a reporter with jail time during an interview for Time magazine, after a photographer tried to take a photo of a letter from Kim Jong Un — New York (CNN Business)President Trump's interview with a team of reporters from Time magazine took a sudden turn when he made a comment about prison time for a journalist.
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New York Post, Deadline, TIME, @renato_mariotti, Washington Post, The Independent and BBC
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump speciously describes an NYT journalist making a request for confirmation to an FBI press liaison in 2017 as the NYT “feeding false stories” about him
Trump speciously describes an NYT journalist making a request for confirmation to an FBI press liaison in 2017 as the NYT “feeding false stories” about him
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Media Matters for America, Los Angeles Times, @realdonaldtrump, @nytmike, @tomjolly, @aaronblake, @mollyjongfast, @maggienyt, Mediaite and New York Post