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Gavin de Becker / The Daily Beast:
Bezos' security chief says AMI demanded he claim Bezos story didn't result from hacking or external forces, and says he's confident Saudis accessed Bezos' phone — The National Enquirer's lawyer tried to get me to say there was no hacking. — For 40 years, I've advised at-risk public figures …
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The Daily Beast:
AMI denies that the National Enquirer used another source besides Michael Sanchez for its Bezos report: “no involvement by any other third party whatsoever” — The National Enquirer's parent company said it had one and only one source for its blockbuster exposé of Jeff Bezos …
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@jennamc_laugh, @jennamc_laugh, Reuters, Business Insider and Page Six
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
The Federalist fires its writer Denise McCallister after a series of homophobic tweets — Internet famous “You were at my wedding, Denise” and now-former The Federalist blogger Denise McCallister tweeted her way out of a job Saturday when a Twitter feud quickly escalated into a homophobic screed.
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@rebecca_cusey, @yashar, @bdomenech, @secupp, Daily Mail, @jayrosen_nyu, Contemptor and Raw Story
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
April Fools prank stories share many attributes with fake news stories, like using more first-person pronouns, and can help researchers better detect fake news — April Fool's. On Monday morning, be prepared for this year's assortment of April Fool's Day pranks across the web …
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@niemanlab, @niemanlab and @niemanlab
Columbia Journalism Review:
Survey: 19 out of 21 news organizations studied had no documented policies for preservation of their web content and none were preserving social media posts — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — This research report explores archiving practices and policies across newspapers, magazines, wire services …
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@michaelbolden, @spj_tweets and @fheinderyckx
Britta Lokting / OneZero:
As cannabis gets legalized around US, High Times struggles to keep up with a changing culture, losing readers, money, and half of staff in the past few years — For decades, High Times was the flagship of cannabis culture. Now it's struggling to keep up.
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@boahnaker
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
BBC says it wants to improve public perception around its news impartiality and will make fact-checking service Reality Check a more visible part of news output — Improving public perception around its news impartiality is one of the BBC's four priorities for the year ahead, according to its latest annual plan.
Laura Wagner / Deadspin:
Current and former MLB Advanced Media employees say the company has fostered a toxic and overly demanding work environment for years under poor leadership — On the second Tuesday of February, at 3:00 in the afternoon, around 40 employees of MLB Advanced Media—one arm of MLB's media empire …
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@bittergiantsfan, @mikevorkunov, @timmarchman, @dannyoneil, @timmarchman, @megreenwell, @bubbaprog, @tobins, @spaldingballs, @tobins and @spencerfordin
Blake Droesch / eMarketer:
eMarketer expects Amazon Music will pass 35M MAUs in the US this year, up 17.7% YoY, growing faster than any other digital audio service in its forecast — Amazon Music will cross 35 million monthly listeners in the US this year. At a growth rate of 17.7% year over year …
Cristina Tardáguila / Poynter:
Inside FactCheckEU, a collaboration between 19 EU media outlets from 13 countries that fact checks articles and debunks rumors ahead of upcoming EU elections — It's been more than a week since 19 European media outlets from 13 countries started collaborating to separate facts from fiction ahead …
MediaPowerMonitor:
Google gives a €50K grant to media company running Origo, a Hungarian pro-government news portal, baffling free expression activists and independent journalists — Google joins the Hungarian government of Viktor Orban and its allies in funding the company that runs Origo, a Hungarian pro-government news portal.
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Media1 and Digital News Initiative
Nina Lakhani / The Guardian:
United Mexican Journalists survey of ~400 women in media: 73% suffered sexual harassment, 50% by their bosses, 43% by sources; only 20% made official complaints — Mexican wave of the movement erupted in creative industries and media where 73% of female workers have faced sexual harassment
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