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The Awl:
The Awl announces it will end editorial operations at the end of January — It is with a mixture of disappointment and relief that we are announcing the cessation of editorial operations on The Awl at the end of this month. For nearly a decade we followed a dream of building a better Internet …
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The Hairpin:
The Hairpin, part of The Awl network, announces it will end editorial operations at the end of January — We're sad to say that The Hairpin will cease editorial operations at the end of this month. The site started with a dream of making a space on the Internet unlike any other …
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Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / Jezebel:
Babe's post about “Grace” and Aziz Ansari showed inexperience and lack of understanding about reporting on sexual misconduct, prompting bad-faith reactions — Late Saturday evening, the website Babe.net published a detailed account of an encounter between “Grace,” …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
The Editor-in-Chief of Babe's parent company Tab Media, Joshi Herrmann, has defended the site's decision to publish the allegations against Aziz Ansari — Aziz Ansari responds to sexual assault accusation — Amid all the debate over an anonymous woman's account of a sexual encounter with Aziz Ansari …
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Sources: Fox News killed a story detailing alleged sexual relationship between porn actress Stephanie Clifford and Trump ahead of the 2016 election — Fox News had a story at the height of the presidential election that detailed an alleged sexual relationship between porn actress Stephanie Clifford …
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Zeynep Tufekci / Wired:
Free speech online has grown even as Facebook, Google, Twitter control more attention; most effective censorship now is meddling with trust, not muzzling speech — FOR MOST OF modern history, the easiest way to block the spread of an idea was to keep it from being mechanically disseminated.
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Attorneys general from 22 states file lawsuit to stop FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules; Mozilla, other net neutrality advocates also filed suits against FCC — WASHINGTON — The legal fight against the Federal Communications Commission's recent repeal of so-called net neutrality regulations began …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube says new creators will need 4K hours of watch time and 1K subs to join Partner Program for ad revenue; Google Preferred videos to be reviewed by humans — YouTube is making its creator revenue-sharing program more restrictive and will start manually reviewing all videos …
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Tracey Lien / Los Angeles Times:
Digital First Media announces layoffs will hit its newspapers across California, including the Mercury News and Orange County Register — Southern California News Group, which includes newspapers such as the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Daily News, will be hit with “significant” …
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
HBO fights streaming rivals like Netflix and Hulu with heavy marketing and a focus on quality over quantity with its original programming — As other channels stockpile content, HBO is trimming its development pipeline; 'More is not better. Only better is better.'
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@srabil, @africamet and Forbes
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Gallup/Knight survey: 58% in US say proliferation of news sources makes it harder to stay informed; 42% say social media has had positive impact on news media — But they're evenly split on whether or not the news selection algorithms on sites like Facebook and Twitter should be regulated.
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Jim Edwards / Business Insider:
Nuzzel CEO Jonathan Abrams says company will focus on subscription-based Nuzzel Media Intelligence, now in testing and aimed at businesses, starting at $49/mo. — - Nuzzel, the addictive news-reading app, is launching a search-based news-monitoring service for professionals.
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