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Emily Yahr / Washington Post:
Trump calls for Dave Weigel to be fired after WaPo reporter apologized for presenting misleading impression in a tweet about Trump's Florida rally crowd size — President Donald Trump walks off stage after speaking at a rally in Pensacola, Fla., on Friday. He described the arena as “packed to the rafters.”
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Allan Smith / Business Insider:
CNN and CBS News issue corrections in stories about an email sent to Trump Jr. about WikiLeaks docs; both orgs independently reported incorrect date — - CNN on Friday issued a major correction to a Trump-Russia story. — A Washington Post story may have nullified the bombshell of CNN's report that it corrected.
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
CNN, MSNBC, CBS should identify who fed them blatantly false info about the date of WikiLeaks email, or explain how such a mistake has been made in good faith — Friday was one of the most embarrassing days for the U.S. media in quite a long time. The humiliation orgy was kicked off by CNN …
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Greg Evans / Deadline:
Charlie Sheen sues National Enquirer for defamation over a story claiming he raped a 13-year-old boy in 1986 — Charlie Sheen is suing the National Enquirer over the publication of a story claiming the then-19-year-old actor raped a 13-year-old Corey Haim when the two were filming 1986's Lucas.
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Julie Zauzmer / Washington Post:
A look at motivations of journalism students at evangelical Christian college Liberty University as the industry faces derision from some on the religious right — LYNCHBURG, Va. — What do you do when everyone around you thinks the media is “fake news” — and you want to work for the media?
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Many individual creators complain that YouTube's demonetization of offensive content unfairly hit their video channels, severely impacting ad earnings — Algorithm flags offensive material but isn't perfect — Site says it's working to address YouTubers' concerns
Max Willens / Digiday:
With some research saying that permanently baked-in host-read podcast ads are 3.5X more effective, dynamically inserted third party ads have trouble catching on — In November, HowStuffWorks dumped the third-party ads in its podcasts. After spending most of 2017 trying to use ad networks …
TechCrunch:
Sources: Apple to acquire music recognition app Shazam; one source puts the deal at about $400M; Shazam's post-money valuation after its 2015 funding was $1.02B — As Spotify continues to inch towards a public listing, Apple is making a move of its own to step up its game in music services.
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox News updates headline and story saying Roy Moore's accuser “forged” yearbook inscription attributed to Moore to say she added “notes”, deletes related tweet — Fox News has updated a report that initially said a woman accusing Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore …
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Times of London experiments by starting Facebook groups focused on Brexit, books, and movies to facilitate conversation between readers and drive subs — The Times of London is experimenting with Facebook groups dedicated to specific topics in order to attract new readers and ultimately convert them into subscribers.
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Profile of Sreya Guha, a senior at a Palo Alto high school, who built Related Fact Checks website and Chrome plugin to help users find existing fact checks — Instead of pool days and part-time jobs, Sreya Guha spends her summers with lines and lines of code.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Genies, which raised $15M at $100M+ valuation, launches its iOS app that uses lifelike personalized avatars to reenact news, had ~680,000 waitlisted to signup — “We plan on making Bitmoji obsolete,” says Akash Nigam, CEO of Genies. Bragging about beating one of the world's top apps …
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