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9:25 AM ET, December 19, 2016

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Knight Foundation:
For the next month until January 19, 2017, the Knight Foundation will match donations from individuals to non-profit news orgs, up to a total of $1.5M  —  The Knight News Match is a call to action for everyone who believes in quality, trustworthy, in-depth journalism and the role nonprofit …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:   57 non-profit news orgs are participating in Knight's News Match program, including The Lens, The Marshall Project, ProPublica, PBS NewsHour, The Texas Tribune
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
November's election and Trump's attacks on media fuel support for trusted, verified journalism  —  The answer to all the troubling new questions about the future of the news business — how to make money, stop the spread of fake news and reassert a uniform view of reality …
Charles J. Sykes / New York Times:
Right-wing vilification of the mainstream media has discredited news orgs among some voters, aiding Trump's rise as right-wing news sources promote untruths  —  MILWAUKEE — After nearly 25 years, I'm stepping down from my daily conservative talk radio show at the end of this month.
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Sources: Jane Pratt, founder of xoJane and xoVain, is leaving Time Inc.; sites will redirect to InStyle.com, though Pratt is seeking investors for properties  —  Pratt will leave the company by the end of the year, as she looks to find a suitor for xoJane and xoVain.  —  XoJane.com
Turkey Blocks:
Tor access with the default configuration now widely restricted in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use  —  The Turkey Blocks internet censorship watchdog has identified and verified that restrictions on the Tor anonymity network and Tor Browser are now in effect throughout Turkey.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Parse.ly report: Facebook sends publishers 37% of all referral traffic, down from 41.7% a year ago, while Google sends 32%, down from 39.5%  —  Bad news for publishers who built their strategy on search engine referral traffic: Google is now sending a smaller proportion of visitors to news sites than it did a year ago.
Discussion: MediaShift
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Newspapers failed to compete with Craigslist on price and product quality  —  It's fun to beat up on Craig Newmark for the end of classifieds, but papers were greedy, too.  —  The journalistic world's sniping at Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, recommenced yesterday after he announced …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, and Bloomberg are all beefing up their White House reporting teams in preparation for Trump's presidency  —  When President-elect Donald Trump moves into The White House, he's going to have a lot of company.  —  In the last week …
Discussion: Politico
Liz Spayd / New York Times:
The New York Times' newsroom is mostly white, suggesting diversity has not been a priority; Dean Baquet says he's committed to change  —  ONLY two of the 20-plus reporters who covered the presidential campaign for The New York Times were black.  None were Latino or Asian.
Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ annual report: at least 48 journalists killed in relation to their work in 2016, with outstanding questions about 27 other cases  —  Also Available in Español, , Français, Português, , Türkçe  —  Deadly violence against the media eased in 2016 …
Cyra Master / The Hill:
Trump held a 30-minute off-the-record meeting with the press Sunday evening, at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, 140 days after his last press conference  —  held an off-the-record conversation with reporters on Sunday evening.  —  While the topics of conversation were not reported, the meeting was confirmed in a presidential pool report.
Maciej Martewicz / Bloomberg:
Amid protests, Poland's ruling party promises to re-open talks about strict media regulations for covering parliament, which were to start January 1  —  Law & Justice suspends plan to curb media access in new year  —  President Duda starts mediating effort amid ongoing protests
Discussion: CNN and BBC
 
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Jeremy Armstrong / Mirror.co.uk:
UK police force used terrorism legislation to access Daily Mirror reporter's phone records after paper revealed senior officer had spent taxpayer money on lover
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Washington Post offers Chrome extension that fact-checks Trump's tweets
Molly de Aguiar / Nieman Lab:
Philanthropists for news should provide operating support with no strings attached and encourage newsrooms to take creative risks, collaborate with partners
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Melody Kramer / Poynter:
Q&A with historians from NPR, University of Louisville, and the director of Radio Preservation Task Force on mapping the history of US public broadcasts
Nielsen:
Nielsen Scarborough: more than 169M US adults read a newspaper a month, via print, web, or mobile; 81% engage with print product, and 51% read print exclusively
 

 
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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that can create a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Google says it will consolidate teams that focus on building AI models across Research and DeepMind, and move its Responsible AI teams from Research to DeepMind

 
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