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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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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
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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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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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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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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Julia Alexander / The Verge:
YouTube gives creators more ways to handle copyright disputes with a YouTube Studio update that includes an Assisted Trim tool to edit out claimed content — An automatic trim feature helps directly tackle the problem — YouTube's recent Studio update is finally giving people an easier way to deal with copyright claim disputes.
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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
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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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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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.
Associated Press:
Turkey's top court rules that a two-year ban on Wikipedia violates freedom of expression; it remains unclear when access to the site will be restored — ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's highest court on Thursday ruled in favor of Wikipedia, saying the Turkish government's two-year ban …
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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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