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Der Spiegel to file criminal complaint against Claas Relotius after it emerged the reporter may have embezzled donations for subjects of one of his articles — Bookmark — BERLIN: Influential German news weekly Der Spiegel said Sunday (Dec 23) it would file a criminal complaint …
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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Joel Kaplan's growing sway at Facebook as he pushed against News Feed changes designed to reduce polarization, promoted The Daily Caller partnership — Joel Kaplan, a former White House aide to a Republican president, has emerged as Facebook's protector against allegations of political bias …
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Printing presses have struggled to keep up with the demand for books during holiday season, creating a backlog that has led to stock shortages of popular titles — This year has been, much to everyone's surprise, a blockbuster for the publishing industry. Despite the relentless news cycle, readers have bought books in droves.
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Internal documents and Civil's co-founder shed light on how the blockchain-based journalism startup bumbled its ICO and left many partners disappointed — CVL should've been worth ≥$0.75, Civil CEO said. Internal docs show far less. — In March 2018, Matthew Iles—the head of Civil …
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Nisha Chittal / Vox:
How Instagram has helped indie bookstores, which have grown 35% between 2009-2015, as it creates community and attracts customers via photogenic displays — Stores like Books Are Magic and the Last Bookstore are benefiting from love on #bookstagram. — The internet is killing independent bookstores.
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Zoe Sullivan / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the threats facing Brazil's media: more violence against journalists, an at-times hostile president-elect, accelerating digital disruption, and more — The day after he captured Brazil's presidency in a run-off, Jair Bolsonaro spoke with Globo News, Brazil's largest television network.
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Glenn Fleishman / Smithsonian:
On January 1, copyrighted works from 1923 will enter the public domain, 21 years after the last mass expiration of copyright in the US, which predated Google — A beloved Robert Frost poem is among the many creations that are (finally) losing their protections in 2019 — “Whose woods these are, I think I”—whoa!
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Gina Masullo Chen / American Press Institute:
Study of use of DocumentCloud: embedded documents largely served as proof of claims but few journalists included explanations of how documents were verified — Anti-press sentiment, fueled in no small part by President Trump, has left news organizations looking for new ways to bolster lagging trust.
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Craig Newmark / Nieman Lab:
In 2019, news outlets will institute tactics to debunk lies like a “truth sandwich” in which the truth is presented before the lie, which is then fact-checked — Dan Gillmor has pointed out that some news outlets give considerable air time and print space to people who they know are lying …
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Washington Post:
Deep dive into why Saudis murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a moderate and patriot dissident journalist of Saudi Arabia, after failing to woo him back with promises — Jamal Khashoggi had been in the United States for only a few months when the forces he had fled in Saudi Arabia made clear that he would never fully escape.
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Sophie Nicholson / Poynter:
In a year, Agence France Presse went from having one staffer on its fact-checking team to employing 20+ globally — In the above image, an unidentified woman takes a phone call at the headquarters of French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP), in Paris Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003.
Will Oremus / Slate:
Facebook has forfeited our trust to the point that we see nefarious motives in any misstep, as some overblown reactions to Spotify and Netflix integrations show — Facebook may or may not have lost its handle on our data. But it has definitely lost its handle on the public narrative—and the benefit of the doubt.
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