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Inside Fox News, staffers express frustration that the investigation into the retracted Seth Rich story remains unresolved — Lawsuit puts Seth Rich conspiracy inside the West Wing — It has been more than two months since Fox News retracted its story about the death …
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Andrew Feinberg, who was fired as Sputnik White House reporter in late May, said he was pushed to advance the Seth Rich story, said no, and was then fired — WASHINGTON — Reporter Andrew Feinberg says a Russian state-owned news site he once worked for pressured him to advance a conspiracy theory …

Source: Fox is in talks with Ion Media to operate local TV stations across the US, potentially paving the way for Fox to dump Sinclair as an affiliate partner — Joint venture is said to include Ion, Fox-owned stations — Fox is said to mull moving affiliation from Sinclair channels
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New York Times reporter Rachel Donadio joins The Atlantic as a culture and politics writer based in Paris — Washington, D.C. (August 3, 2017)—As The Atlantic continues to expand internationally, Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced today the addition of three journalists to its global reporting team.
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@yappelbaum, @jamesfallows and @racheldonadio

Sources at ad agencies say a lack of analytics, disinterest of influencers, and other factors are driving clients from Snap, exacerbated by Instagram's strength — - Several agencies said advertiser interest in Snapchat is flat to dwindling, as many opt to move towards Instagram.
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Business Insider, @larakiara, Instagram, @clprenz, @kantrowitz and @mattrosoff, more at Techmeme »
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Trade group predicts US TV antenna sales will rise 7% in 2017 to nearly 8M units as millennial cord cutters discover free TV signals — Cord-cutters accustomed to watching shows online are often shocked that $20 ‘rabbit ears’ pluck signals from the air; is this legal?
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The Daily Caller, @mims, @pilhofer, @ejacqui, Decider, @ryanlcooper, @bostonreview, @mims, @wexler, @wxbrad, @dseetharaman, @katzish, @chadcat, @dino_grandoni, @helaineolen, @ericgeller and Mother Jones

Facebook to display “related articles” for popular stories, including ones flagged as false by fact checkers, to combat misinformation, after months of testing — Social-media giant will display related articles to limit the damage of false news without censoring posts
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Reflections on writing for the New York Post and how reporter and subject interactions, for the sake of clicks, shape society's perception of news media — A man waiting at a New York City intersection reads a copy of the New York Post. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)
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@benjamin_oc, @chrisjstein, @jduteuil, @nataliedaher7, @bypetevernon, @matthaber, @marincogan, @ashleytressel, @rodboydilm and @pang

Univision posts Q2 profit of $106.1M, up from $74.7M a year ago, with core revenue increasing 5.3% YoY to $753.5M — The Spanish-language media giant, led by CEO Randy Falco, has been eyeing an IPO, and media mogul John Malone reportedly recently approached its owners about buying a big stake.
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Gannett reports total Q2 revenue of $774.5M, up from $748.8M the prior year, with digital ad revenue increasing 1.3% to $99.5M — Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. Inc. GCI, +2.01% on Thursday reported a profit for the second quarter that came in above Wall Street's expectations.
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Source: “ripping culture” at a UK newspaper website has prompted more than half its graduate trainees to abandon journalism for PR — The “ripping culture” at one national newspaper website has led to more than half its graduate trainee intake for the last two years abandoning journalism for PR.
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@lukereuters, @amonck, @domponsford, @marklittlenews, @domponsford, @fmr_brussels and @youngvulgarian

Site supported by German Marshall Fund tracks Russian-supported disinfo on Twitter; Alliance for Securing Democracy plans analyses for Facebook, Reddit, YouTube — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A website launched on Wednesday seeks to track Russian-supported propaganda and disinformation on Twitter …
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WikiTribune names Peter Bale, former CEO of the Center for Public Integrity in Washington DC, as launch editor, says it is on track to launch around September — The new initiative from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales will see professional journalists working together with the community
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