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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Media watchdog Media Matters promotes Angelo Carusone to president, announces it is shifting towards monitoring fake news, Breitbart, the alt-right, others — Liberal media-watchdog organization Media Matters is naming a new president and taking its coverage in a new direction …
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The Hill, Mediaite, The Week, The Wrap, @mlcalderone, @hadas_gold, @poniewozik, FishbowlNY and TheBlaze
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
New York Times Public Editor Liz Spayd says she should have “held back more” when criticizing tweets by the paper's journalists, but stands by her views — PUBLIC EDITOR ADDRESSES TIMES TWEET CRITICISM CRITICISM — Liz Spayd acknowledged that she may have gone too far in castigating …
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@bgrueskin, FishbowlDC, Daily Mail, @becketadams, @blakehounshell, @brattlestcap, @stefanfatsis, Business Insider, Editor & Publisher, AOL and The Guardian
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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
NYT public editor Liz Spayd told Tucker Carlson some tweets from NYT political reporters were “outrageous” and should be met with “kind of a consequence” — New York Times public editor Liz Spayd said Friday night that she believed certain tweets authored …
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Analysis of news links in Trump tweets shows that Breitbart dominated, while traditional outlets like The Washington Post joined far-right sites as top sources — BuzzFeed News analyzed all the links Donald Trump tweeted since he launched his presidential campaign to determine where the president-elect gets his news.
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CNN, Washington Post, The Week, Mediaite, Vox, Memex 1.1, bookforum.com and Politico
Alex Weprin / Politico:
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes says Democrats have been more of a threat to the First Amendment than Trump, does not believe Trump will alter it — Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, who counts CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. and TBS among the media companies in his portfolio, says that President-Elect Donald …
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Business Insider, @brettlogiurato and TheBlaze
Madeline Berg / Forbes:
PewDiePie tops Forbes list of highest-paid YouTube stars of 2016, earning $15M, driven by his series YouTube Red and sales of his book — Five years ago, Roman Atwood uploaded the first YouTube video, “Epic Cooler Prank!”, to his page. In the three-minute-long video …
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Variety, Mashable, The Wrap and The Independent
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Boston Globe's medicine and health news site, STAT, launches STAT Plus, a $300/year service with news, events, and other perks for pharma, biotech professionals — Publishers have been rolling out paywalls and membership programs in the hunt for a way to fund online journalism.
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Nieman Lab, STAT, @seangriffey, @tothevictor, @dankennedy_nu, Poynter and Media Nation
Chris Cioffi / Raleigh News & Observer:
Raleigh Agenda, an extension of local news and lifestyle startup Charlotte Agenda, is shutting down and laying off two staffers — RALEIGH — The Charlotte-based owner of the downtown-centric online publication Raleigh Agenda has laid off its staff and shuttered its Triangle outpost.
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Nieman Lab, Raleigh Agenda, @joeovies, @pblest, @raleighreporter, @lb_harris and @seatedovation
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
At least four other businesses say they've received threats in connection with Pizzagate, a conspiracy theory promoted by a Trump ally and sites like Infowars — The Washington, D.C., pizzeria into which a man armed with an assault rifle strode on Sunday, allegedly to investigate for himself …
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Washington Post, bookforum.com, @tomkludt and @thusbloggeda
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Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
The shooter who attacked a pizzeria after fake news controversy likes Infowars and host Alex Jones on Facebook; InfoWars published many stories about Pizzagate
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Politico, New York Times, Media Matters for America, Vanity Fair, CNN, Foreign Policy, @brianstelter, CNNMoney, The Guardian, Mediaite, fox13now.com, Business Insider, Morning Consult, New York Magazine, Washington Post, @blakehounshell, BBC, Vox, Mashable, The Wrap, Engadget, Washingtonian, FishbowlDC, Media Nation, The Daily Caller, BBC, Fast Company, New York Times and Mother Jones
Kyle Chayka / The Verge:
Google AMP, Facebook's Instant Articles, and Apple News make articles from fake news sites look the same as those from Bloomberg and The New York Times — If you asked Google who won the popular vote just after the election, there's a chance you would have been sent to a conspiracy blog with bogus results.
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Josh Jackson / Paste:
Paste announces Paste Quarterly, a print magazine with a vinyl album in each issue, for $20/issue or $70/year, launching March 2017 — Today, Paste announces a return to print with Paste Quarterly—a luxurious print magazine with the new vinyl Paste Sampler—launching March of 2017.
Sensor Tower Blog:
Netflix becomes top grossing iOS app in the US for the first time, as weekly net revenue grows to nearly $2.9M — Just over a year after Netflix began allowing iOS users to subscribe to its service via in-app purchases, the Netflix app has summited the Top Grossing Apps chart for iPhone on the U.S. App Store.
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TechCrunch, MacRumors, AppAdvice.com Latest, Fortune, 9to5Mac, The Loop, Variety and AppleInsider
Ad Age:
Ad Age Editor Ken Wheaton steps down, after just over a year in the role; executive editor and deputy editor will oversee magazine until successor is named — Ad Age Editor Ken Wheaton will leave the publication at the end of the year to focus on his fiction writing, it was announced today.
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@bristei and FishbowlNY
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