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Jay Rosen / PressThink:
What Chuck Todd blamed on naiveté to lessen his error of ignoring the GOP's spread of disinfo was in fact willful blindness and malpractice — 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
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@jayrosen_nyu, The Wrap, Washington Examiner, BizPac Review, @karacalavera, @brianstelter, @lukebrussel, @hoi_pollois, @teri_atthepaper, @drvox, @teroterotero, @katzonearth, @imillhiser, @patblanchfield, @adamantxyves, @brooklynmarie, @soledadobrien, @elongreen, @armandondk, Fox News, @mayatcontreras and @jayrosen_nyu
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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@emeraldrobinson, @alexmarlow and Breitbart
New York Times:
Studios produced 58 franchise films in 2019, which accounted for 82% of the worldwide Hollywood box office — In 2019, Hollywood put out a whopping 58 franchise films, including “The Rise of Skywalker,” released this weekend. Still, ticket sales dropped.
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@sameepa, @davidpoland, @kennethturan and @curtis_1myers
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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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@dankennedy_nu
Allyson McCabe / Wired:
As labels increasingly rely on streaming data to scout talent, they could become less willing to sign artists whose music isn't engineered to maximize profit — The explosion of metrics and algorithms isn't just reflecting what's happening in the music industry. It's transforming it.
Constance Grady / Vox:
With print books often cheaper than ebooks, whose sales stabilized at ~20% of total book sales, a look at the aftermath of Apple's ebook price fixing lawsuit — Publishing spent the 2010s fighting tooth and nail against ebooks. There were unintended consequences.
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@jackshafer, @dandrezner, @irhottakes, @sea_baugruppe, @constancegrady, @voxdotcom and @marshacollier
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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The Guardian, The Hill, @krmaher and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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.
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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Engadget, @loudmouthjulia, 9to5Google, @martinsfp and support.google.com, more at Techmeme »
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
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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