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Vanity Fair faces backlash after reporter suggests in video that Hillary Clinton should take up knitting or “literally anything” instead of running again — The snarky video is part of a series, but the New Year's advice for the former presidential nominee caused the biggest stir.
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The faux scandal about Vanity Fair's Clinton video uses familiar social media bad-faith tactics that end up silencing individual journalists — A silly social video by Vanity Fair that suggested New Year's resolutions for Hillary Clinton drew harsh backlash from #Resistance Twitter myrmidons …
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Trump continues to define the press as his prime adversary, using Twitter and a Fox News alliance to bury damaging stories and capitalize on recent media errors — Assessing Year One. — The guy who said, “Never quarrel with a man who buys his ink by the barrel,” didn't anticipate Donald Trump.
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BuzzFeed has fired White House correspondent Adrian Carrasquillo after an internal investigation into allegations of inappropriate comments to a colleague — - BuzzFeed News' White House correspondent Adrian Carrasquillo has been let go following an investigation into inappropriate comments to a colleague.
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Investigation finds publishers like Ozy drove millions of visitors to pages with ads from companies like JPMorgan, but the traffic turned out to be fraudulent — Fake traffic was sent to pages containing ads for JPMorgan Chase & Co., Visa, Amazon, KFC, and other big brands.
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Source: Snap is developing a “Stories Everywhere” product, led by ex-News Corp. SVP Rahul Chopra, to push Stories outside Snapchat, possibly via a web player — Snapchat is developing a new product called “Stories Everywhere” with a goal of making Snapchat Stories available outside …
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Twitter blocked a bot that exposed accounts posting racist messages while impersonating Jews after the impostors reported harassment, unsolicited replies, spam — Like many Jewish journalists who reported on Donald Trump's presidential campaign, I spent the 2016 election being harassed …
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McClatchy's Kansas City Star expanded staffing in its editorial department as others cut, with goal of driving readership and ensuring Star's community role — For editorial pages as well as other cornerstones of legacy metro newspapers, these are generally bad times, if not the worst of times.
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As Facebook expands content moderation, contract workers describe the job of vetting porn, racism, and violence: high turnover, $13-$28/hour in Bay Area, more — Social-media giants hire legions of contractors to hunt for pornography, racism and violence in a torrent of posts and videos
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Sources: Amazon plans to expand ad offerings in 2018, especially on search and video products, and increase off platform ad sales, with ad tech firms like Kargo — - It also has plans to increase advertising sales off its platform, including partnering with third-party technology companies to sell partnered TV and mobile ads.
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Union membership grows among digital publishers as writers and editors face job uncertainty amid media business troubles — After employees at the online media company Vox Media announced plans to form a union last month, German Lopez, a senior reporter at the company's general news website Vox.com …
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How Fox News' website has ramped up to 100+ full-time staff, up 45% YoY, and features a more combative tone under digital EIC Noah Kotch, to fend off Breitbart — As competition surges on the right, Fox's website increasingly follows the path of its prime-time hosts.