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Trump lashes out at New York Times and reporter Maggie Haberman over Michael Cohen coverage, claims he doesn't speak to her despite granting many interviews — PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump vowed Saturday that his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, will not “flip” and cooperate …


Amy Chozick, the main NYT Clinton campaign reporter, reflects on covering Podesta's stolen emails and later feeling she had become a Russian intelligence tool — Covering Hillary Clinton's campaign from before it started to the very last moment. — Things were already looking bad when …
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The Daily Beast, Washington Post, @davisusan, @pareene, The Daily Caller, @charlesarthur, The Slot, Mediaite, Sean Hannity, Publishers Lunch and Splinter


How hate speech and misinformation spread on Facebook in developing countries like Sri Lanka, where reputable sources are scarce, leading to real-world violence — MEDAMAHANUWARA, Sri Lanka — Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house …
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@brooklynmarie, @nytimes, @indiaexplained, @om, @mattyglesias, @max_fisher, @timoreilly, @zeynep and @miriamelder, more at Techmeme »


Profile of Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of news partnerships; sources say she controls a $90M budget that will pay partners to make original news programs — It was another terrible day for Facebook and the company had dispatched Campbell Brown, its head of news partnerships, to do some damage control.
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@linamkhan, @jason_kint, @orskov, @rafat, @charliebeckett and @hshaban


Local TV news stations experiment with crowdsourced reporting, augmented reality, and injecting more personality into the news to attract young viewers — When the Rev. Billy Graham died in February, Raleigh-based WRAL-TV provided expansive coverage of the famed evangelist's life and legacy.
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Comey memos detail Trump's idea of jailing reporters, first reported in 2017: “They spend a couple days in jail, make a new friend, and they are ready to talk” — The president wanted to stop leaks pouring from the White House. — President Donald Trump floated the idea …


AMI financial reports reveal a $920M debt, 9% decrease in yearly revenue YoY; National Enquirer sales benefited more from anti-Hilary, not pro-Trump, coverage — Tabloid owner American Media's debt has mushroomed while newsstand sales of its print publications are shrinking
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Mariel Padilla found out she won a Pulitzer for a story she worked on as an intern at The Cincinnati Enquirer while in class at Columbia Journalism School — Mariel Padilla. Photo by Catherine Mazanek. — On Monday afternoon, Mariel Padilla, a master's student at Columbia Journalism School …
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@naomikritzer and @snorthfield45


At $7.4B, streaming revenue was 43% of all recorded music revenues in 2017; revenue for artists selling directly via platforms like Bandcamp grew 27.2% YoY — 2017 was a stellar year for the recorded music business. Global recorded music revenues reached $17.4 billion in 2017 in trade values …
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@tommanatos and @moonpipe


Essence Editor-in-Chief Vanessa De Luca and Editorial Projects Director Patrik Henry to leave the company, which has no plans to replace either — Where “Black women come first.” — It's the motto, tagline, credo and daily mantra that ESSENCE magazine has used ever since the magazine first premiered in 1970.
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Folio, Journal-isms and MediaPost


Profile of Mark Zuckerberg as told by those who knew him growing up in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and those who met him on his 2017 tour of the US — The world's largest social network needs fixing. Facebook's frontman has known for years. … A few years ago, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife …
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Witness says a Myanmar police chief ordered officers to “trap” Reuters reporter Wa Lone by giving him secret documents; Reuters EIC calls to end the case — YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar police chief ordered officers to “trap” a Reuters reporter arrested in December …