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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Q&A with Chuck Todd about a Dec 29 edition of Meet the Press focusing on journalism and disinformation with guests like NYT's Dean Baquet and WaPo's Marty Baron — Chuck Todd has had a front-row seat for the spread of disinformation, here's how he sees it happening and the media's role in it
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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
What Chuck Todd calls naiveté to minimize his error of not seeing that GOP is willing to spread disinfo, is in fact malpractice and “strategic blindness” — That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it.
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@zimbalist
Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
Napp Nazworth, politics editor of Christian Post, says he has quit his job as the site has decided to publish a pro-Trump editorial bashing Christianity Today — The decision by Christianity Today to publish an editorial describing President Trump as “immoral” and calling …
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@nappnazworth, The Daily Beast, @dangillmor, @nappnazworth, The Atlantic, @gwfrink3, @mboorstein, @nappnazworth, @karaswisher, The Christian Post, @emmaogreen, @rustbeltrebel, @publicroad, @nappnazworth, @eugene_scott, Fox News, New York Times, Slate, The Inquisitr, VICE, The Independent, The Hill, Mediaite, Axios, The Wrap and The Week
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Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
Editor-in-chief of Christianity Today says the magazine has gained three times as many subscribers as it's lost after he called for Trump's removal from office
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@ctmagazine, @timdalrymple_, @amy_siskind, @jonrog1, @acosta, @b52malmet, @rweingarten, Snopes.com, The Independent, The Wrap and The Hill
David Uberti / VICE:
CrowdTangle: Breitbart's page racked up 57.8M Facebook likes, comments, and shares since Sept. 1, more than the 42.6M of NYT, WaPo, WSJ, and USA Today combined — Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. — Soon after President Donald Trump was inaugurated in 2017, Breitbart appeared to be on the ropes.
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@alexmarlow and Breitbart
Dan Kennedy / wgbh.org:
To grow digital subs, papers should consider offering traditional bundles with national and local news plus comics and features to become one-stop destinations — As newspapers have moved away from making their content freely available online, a lot of thinking that seemed forward-looking a few years ago needs to be re-examined.
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@dankennedy_nu and Dan Kennedy
Bloomberg:
Sources: earlier this year, YouTube considered screening all videos for kids under 8 in YouTube Kids but dropped the idea to avoid looking like a media company — YouTube spent 2019 answering critics with some of the most drastic changes in its 15-year history.
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Engadget, @loudmouthjulia, @woganmay, @mhbergen, @mattrosoff, @thekenyeung, @mhbergen, @martinsfp, @lucas_shaw and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »
Madison Feller / ELLE:
Profile of NYT investigations editor Rebecca Corbett who oversaw the Weinstein investigation and helped inspire The Wire, where she played a cameo as an editor — Like many women in media who spend hours hunched over stories, tracing the news and pursuing stories, the
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@emarvelous, @ellemagazine, @_madisonline, @dhamamdjian, @allmattnyt, @davidfolkenflik, @borjaechevarria, @mirinfader, @maggienyt, @jodikantor and @danielleiat
Suzanne Daley / New York Times:
Inside NYT's front-page decision-making process, which has evolved from a single meeting among senior editors to a more democratic and organic effort — Today's A1 is the result of a far more democratic and organic process than the one in place when I arrived at The Times in 1978.
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@adriana_lacy and @danbilefsky
A.J. Bauer / Nieman Lab:
A strong electoral backlash against Trump in 2020 can impose boundaries on conservative media which could otherwise venture beyond self-regulation for good — A.J. Bauer is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU.
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Ashley Feinberg explains how she built a reputation for digging into the hidden online lives of political elites like Pete Buttigieg, Mitt Romney, and others — Ashley Feinberg was pretty sure she'd found Pete Buttigieg's editor account on Wikipedia — the same way the journalist …
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@derektmead, @byjoelanderson, @nicoleperlroth, @alex_danco, @abenedikt, @rushafrica, @mikeisaac, @katie_rayford, @katiedrumm and @ericmgarcia
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
The New York Times says it does not think corrections to its 1619 Project are warranted, in response to a letter from five historians that requested corrections — Five historians recently wrote to the New York Times Magazine, asking the architects of its comprehensive 1619 Project …
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Netflix was the best performing stock in the S&P 500 during the decade with a 4,181% return; the index as a whole is up 189% since 2010 — - Netflix was by far the best performer in the S&P 500 during the decade among companies currently in the index. — Netflix joined the S&P 500 in 2010 …
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