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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
The New European, set to print for four weeks post-Brexit, gets 1M pageviews/month with 20K circ.; print serves as “visible articulation” of readers' values — “If I were a U.S. journalist, I would be looking to launch The Trump Watch.” — Last summer, two weeks …
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Sources: Trump's staff planted positive stories in right-wing outlets, including Breitbart, InfoWars, and the Daily Caller, to prevent him angrily tweeting — The trick? Making sure his media diet included a healthy dose of praise. — President Donald Trump's former campaign staffers claim …
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Sources: White House adviser Kellyanne Conway has been sidelined from making TV appearances, after being “off-message” on Flynn scandal — Kellyanne Conway, once the most visible spokesperson for the Trump White House, has been sidelined from television appearances for making statements …
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Kevin Quealy / New York Times:
Chartbeat study of traffic of 148 news organizations shows publications across ideologies cover same news, but readers pass over stories they don't want to see — Press Secretary Sean Spicer, at the press briefing room of the White House, delivered a statement while a television screen showed …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CNN targeted by James O'Keefe, who promises to release “a few hundred hours” of covert recordings from inside the network at 10AM ET Thursday — Conservative provocateur James O'Keefe is setting his sights on CNN. — O'Keefe said in a telephone interview with CNN on Wednesday that he has …
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Bill Maher continues to defend his decision to invite Milo Yiannopoulos on his show, Real Time, saying it hastened his downfall — If you were disappointed that Bill Maher brought Milo Yiannopoulos onto his HBO show “Real Time” last week, Mr. Maher is not especially bothered.
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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
Milo Yiannopoulos announces he has resigned from Breitbart News effective immediately, citing a “poor choice of words”
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Facebook is hosting off-the-record meetings with journalists to improve relations; source says FB discussed boosting publisher ad revenue from videos — Facebook's new head of news partnerships Campbell Brown is hosting off-the-record events at her Manhattan home with big-name media people …
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@matthewjsinger, @miriamelder and @daweiner
Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: Paramount Pictures CEO Brad Grey is stepping down; interim operating committee will run studio — The executive has ruled the studio for more than a decade. — It's official: Brad Grey is out as CEO of Paramount Pictures. — While parent company Viacom searches for a replacement …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
The New York Times is experimenting with A/B testing for mobile-specific headlines, after 10 months of A/B testing headlines across platforms — After 10 months of A/B testing its headlines seriously, the New York Times has started slicing its audience into finer segments, albeit informally.
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia's foreign ministry unveils effort to label news it considers to be fake, includes articles from NYT, Bloomberg, Daily Telegraph, NBC, and more — MOSCOW — Russia's Foreign Ministry got into the fake news business in a splashy way on Wednesday. — No, not by creating it.
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Shawn W. Crispin / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Interview with Dang Xuan Dieu, a reporter with Vietnam Redemptorist News who was jailed for over five years before being exiled to France — Vietnamese journalist and religious activist Dang Xuan Dieu was granted early release January 12 from a 13-year prison sentence on anti-state charges filed over his critical reporting.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
District court judge blocks California law preventing IMDb from publishing ages of actors, saying the law likely violates the First Amendment — A federal judge has barred the State of California from enforcing a new law limiting online publication of actors' ages.
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