• Eli Saslow / Washington Post: Profile of a “satire” site that promotes absurd pro-right posts on Facebook, and one of its readers, who shares its posts without seeing the satire

• Jim Waterson / The Guardian: Google's VP of News points to 2014 shutdown of Google News in Spain, says “We would not like to see that happen in Europe”, due to the proposed EU “link tax”

• BBC: Facebook only has four full-time fact-checkers for its 24M users in Nigeria, none of which speak Hausa; police work with community leader to debunk stories

• Garett Sloane / Ad Age: YouTube quietly began showing ad-supported free feature-length movies in October, giving users access to around 100 titles including “The Terminator”

• Rebecca Mead / New Yorker: How podcasts, whose audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion, became a seductive mode of storytelling that can sometimes be manipulative

• Kevin Alexander / Thrillist: The fate of Stanich's, a restaurant that closed after being rated #1 by Thrillist, prompts introspection regarding food critics' responsibilities and audiences

• Eli Sanders / The Stranger: BuzzFeed reporter Blake Montgomery was arrested in Seattle while attempting to contact a story's subject in person, faces criminal trespass charges

• Daniel Dale / Washington Post: Fact-checking Trump, who tells the same lies, is easy: he invents unnamed people, claims records he hasn't broken, and inflates numbers

• Charlotte Graham-McLay / New York Times: Profile of Mike Dickison, New Zealand's first Wikipedian-at-Large, who wants to boost the country's representation on the site by pushing New Zealanders to edit

• Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab: Freelance journalist Sarah Baird launches Shoeleather, a directory of local reporters available for freelance work that currently lists 330 journalists

• Jeneé Osterheldt / The Boston Globe: Interview with Kristine Guillaume, the first black woman voted to serve as president of The Harvard Crimson since its inception 145 years ago

• Rebecca Keegan / Hollywood Reporter: Netflix doesn't make movies intending to release them in theaters, only doing so to vie for the Oscars, blurring the difference between Oscars and Emmys

• CNN: Judge orders White House to return Acosta's hard pass immediately citing violation of due process, thus granting CNN's request for a temporary restraining order

• Scott Nover / The Atlantic: Press freedom advocates express cautious relief, for now, after the return of Jim Acosta's press press, and praise unity of most media outlets supporting access

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• 45 minutes ago Rebecca Mead / New Yorker: How podcasts, whose audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion, became a seductive mode of storytelling that can sometimes be manipulative

• 3 hours ago Daniel Dale / Washington Post: Fact-checking Trump, who tells the same lies, is easy: he invents unnamed people, claims records he hasn't broken, and inflates numbers   —  Daniel Dale is the Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star.

• 6 hours ago Eli Saslow / Washington Post: Profile of a “satire” site that promotes absurd pro-right posts on Facebook, and one of its readers, who shares its posts without seeing the satire

• 7 hours ago Eli Sanders / The Stranger: BuzzFeed reporter Blake Montgomery was arrested in Seattle while attempting to contact a story's subject in person, faces criminal trespass charges

• 10 hours ago BBC: Facebook only has four full-time fact-checkers for its 24M users in Nigeria, none of which speak Hausa; police work with community leader to debunk stories

• 14 hours ago Jim Waterson / The Guardian: Google's VP of News points to 2014 shutdown of Google News in Spain, says “We would not like to see that happen in Europe”, due to the proposed EU “link tax”

• 16 hours ago Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab: Freelance journalist Sarah Baird launches Shoeleather, a directory of local reporters available for freelance work that currently lists 330 journalists

• 21 hours ago Jeneé Osterheldt / The Boston Globe: Interview with Kristine Guillaume, the first black woman voted to serve as president of The Harvard Crimson since its inception 145 years ago

• 25 hours ago Rebecca Keegan / Hollywood Reporter: Netflix doesn't make movies intending to release them in theaters, only doing so to vie for the Oscars, blurring the difference between Oscars and Emmys

• 29 hours ago Charlotte Graham-McLay / New York Times: Profile of Mike Dickison, New Zealand's first Wikipedian-at-Large, who wants to boost the country's representation on the site by pushing New Zealanders to edit

• 33 hours ago Garett Sloane / Ad Age: YouTube quietly began showing ad-supported free feature-length movies in October, giving users access to around 100 titles including “The Terminator”

• 37 hours ago Paul Linford / HoldtheFrontPage: Johnston Press has been sold to JPIMedia, a new company formed by owners of Johnston's debt, which says all 200+ titles will continue to operate as normal

• 41 hours ago Kevin Alexander / Thrillist: The fate of Stanich's, a restaurant that closed after being rated #1 by Thrillist, prompts introspection regarding food critics' responsibilities and audiences

• 47 hours ago Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: Pirate Studios raises $20M for its self-service music studios that allow recording and live streaming while its cloud software handles mixing and mastering

• 2 days ago John Koblin / New York Times: ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey, the first black executive to run the entertainment division at a major network, to leave the company

• 2 days ago Rebecca Keegan / Hollywood Reporter: The Criterion Collection says it will launch a streaming service of classic films in the spring, after outcry over WarnerMedia's decision to shut FilmStruck

• 2 days ago Tim Miller: Tim Miller, who has worked with Definers Public Affairs and Crooked Media, defends his work, including the effort to link Soros to anti-Facebook groups

• 3 days ago Scott Nover / The Atlantic: Press freedom advocates express cautious relief, for now, after the return of Jim Acosta's press press, and praise unity of most media outlets supporting access