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Spread your masthead across the country, and other ideas to prevent groupthink – Poynter

Melody Kramer 014 mins

Spread your masthead across the country, and other ideas to prevent groupthink By Melody Kramer • November 14, 2016 Last updated by Benjamin Mullin November 14, 2016 a id=”dcl_comment_link” class=”comment_count” href=”#disqus_thread”> Comments a class=”comment_count” href=”#disqus_thread”> Comments I’ve read dozens of journalism postmortems and tweets lamenting how and why journalists got it wrong last week. Here’s…

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YouTube Personality Alleges Toronto Uber Driver Demanded Blowjob for Payment – VICE

ALLISON TIERNEY 09 mins

Uber says it has permanently suspended the driver. When Erika Szabo, a video game and anime YouTube personality, ordered an Uber on a Sunday afternoon following a guest appearance at a convention in Toronto, she was looking to get home quickly after a long day and shitty weather. Just as her Uber driver pulled up, however,…

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Michael Wolff: Trump Win Exposes Media’s Smug Failures | Hollywood Reporter

Michael Wolff09 mins

Ads don’t work, polls don’t work, celebrities don’t work, media endorsements don’t work and ground games don’t work. The media turned itself into the opposition and, accordingly, was voted down as the new political reality emerged: Ads don’t work, polls don’t work, celebrities don’t work, media endorsements don’t work, ground games don’t work. Not only…

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Facebook is harming our democracy, and Mark Zuckerberg needs to do something about it – Vox

Timothy B. Lee026 mins

A generation ago, newspapers and television news programs had a lot of influence over what people read and watched. Stories that made it on the front page got a lot of attention, while most people never heard about stories that mainstream media outlets chose to ignore. Things are very different on the modern internet. Most…

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How We Talk About Race · thewalrus.ca

Anita Li011 mins

It was an innocent mistake—but one that brought widespread humiliation on a noted Canadian journalist and illustrated just how much our country lags behind America in terms of race coverage. “Code-switching” is the act of changing the language you use, or how you express yourself in conversations, depending on the context. It’s a way to…

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Jury finds reporter, Rolling Stone responsible for defaming U-Va. dean with gang rape story – The Washington Post

T. Rees Shapiro 016 mins

CHARLOTTESVILLE — A federal court jury decided Friday that a Rolling Stone journalist defamed a former University of Virginia associate dean in a 2014 magazine article about sexual assault on campus that included a debunked account of a fraternity gang rape. The 10-member jury concluded that the Rolling Stone reporter, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, was responsible…

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Hyperpartisan Facebook Pages Are Publishing False And Misleading Information At An Alarming Rate – BuzzFeed News

Craig Silverman, Lauren Strapagiel, Hamza Shaban, Ellie Hall, Jeremy Singer-Vine039 mins

Hyperpartisan political Facebook pages and websites are consistently feeding their millions of followers false or misleading information, according to an analysis by BuzzFeed News. The review of more than 1,000 posts from six large hyperpartisan Facebook pages selected from the right and from the left also found that the least accurate pages generated some of…

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