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5:20 PM ET, January 19, 2018

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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to survey users to measure trust in publications, data will affect News Feed rankings; news will make up 4% of News Feed posts, down from 5%  —  Tech giant will rely on user surveys of trustworthiness to try to preserve objectivity  —  Facebook Inc. FB .57% plans to start ranking news sources …
Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Los Angeles Times employees vote 248 to 44 in favor of joining NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America union  —  A day before the vote, senior editors had made a last-ditch effort to quash the unionizing campaign.  —  Los Angeles Times staffers have voted to unionize …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
LA Times CEO Ross Levinsohn has been defendant in 2 sexual harassment suits, and colleagues questioned his conduct over 2 decades; Tronc says it's investigating
Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Leaked Snap memo to staff threatens them with termination, financial liability, and even jail time if they leak confidential information about the company  —  Snap Inc. has a simple message to its employees: leak information and you could be sued or even jailed.
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Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Sources: Snap laid off about 24 people across 8 teams, mostly in the content unit that curates users' videos; some staff were asked to relocate to Los Angeles
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Sources: YouTube plans to create Intelligence Desk to seek out inappropriate content using Google data, user reports, social media trends, outside consultants  —  YouTube is planning to proactively seek out and police inappropriate or offensive content following public backlash …
Discussion: Business Insider and 9to5Google
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Nicholas Quah / Nieman Lab:
At Slate, podcasting has gone from zero to 25% of its revenue since 2014; Slate could become “a podcast publisher with a significant written web engine”  —  Plus: WBEZ tries to turn a podcast into a franchise, Science Friday joins WNYC Studios, and Gimlet opens up the HBO playbook.
Discussion: Digiday
Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Google suspends Reviewed Claims fact-checking feature after criticism from conservative news outlets over erroneous link debunking a Daily Caller story  —  Google is suspending a search feature that displayed fact checks associated to publishers after receiving criticism from conservative news outlets.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
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James Warren / Poynter:
Jim Kirk, formerly interim editor at The Los Angeles Times, was appointed interim editor-in-chief at the New York Daily News, which was sold to Tronc last year
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Staffers at The Hill express concerns to management about it becoming a propaganda outlet because of John Solomon's reporting, which they see as partisan
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Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Amazon cancels “One Mississippi,” “I Love Dick,” and “Jean-Claude Van Johnson” after Roy Price's ouster as it moves to broader series with international appeal
Jon Christian / The Outline:
How publicists solicit writers for paid links, and how contributor networks can be used by marketers like “Vicky Law”, with ~150 bylines on HuffPost's platform