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9:35 PM ET, November 5, 2017

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A year into Trump era, reporters have produced great accountability journalism, but relentless news cycles have left people exhausted and mistrustful of media — In the year since Donald Trump was elected president, the national news media has congratulated itself on a new golden age of accountability journalism.

Paul Rosenberg / Salon:

How journalism's norms lead to reluctance by editors and media outlets to call out political lies, and how new tactics or beats could improve reporting — Media's obsession with “balance” and addiction to spectacle led to disaster. Can we get back to real reporting now?

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Recode:
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Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center:

Pew: 26% of US adults get news from two or more social media sites, up from 15% in 2013 and 18% in 2016; 50% of Facebook news users get news via Facebook alone — Americans are more likely than ever to get news from multiple social media sites, according to a recent Pew Research Center report.

Lucinda Southern / Digiday:

A look at Bild's framework to evaluate its partnerships with Google, Facebook, and Snapchat — Publishers face no shortage of dilemmas in a platform-dominated world. Bild, Axel Springer's most-read news brand, has developed a framework based on a traffic-light system for approaching …

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Disney declined to offer LA Times entertainment writers advance film screenings claiming unfair coverage of its ties with Anaheim — The Los Angeles Times has just published its 2017 Holiday Movie Preview. Prominently featured is this note warning readers about a rather large and unfortunate omission from the reviews:

Julie Schwietert Collazo / Columbia Journalism Review:

Two Puerto Rican newspapers cut 59 staff after hurricane while parent company expands real estate portfolio in the US and Latin America — Image via Wikimedia Commons. — The staff of El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora, the two most important Spanish-language newspapers in Puerto Rico …

Corey Hutchins / Columbia Journalism Review:

Spirited Media lays off staffers from its three hyperlocal news sites, seeks new revenue streams — Photo of the Denverite office in October 2016 by Corey Hutchins — SPIRITED MEDIA LAID OFF STAFF at each of its three local news sites this week, undercutting hopes that the company …

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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:

A startup incubated by Matter introduces Grafiti, an iOS app that lets users explore verified datasets, create charts, and share results — “These days we have all these conversations about policy and immigration where data comes up, and it's amazing how much plain text is still used to explain these ideas."

Discussion: Matter, @albertocairo and @mattervc

Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:

How the Establishment's focus on simultaneous membership and audience growth has led to 900 new paying members since January and a million monthly page views — “It's obviously a crowded media sphere right now. A lot of people at the outset were dubious that we need another website."

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