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“‘I think we should call things false when we know they’re false … and we have,’ Baron said. But using the word lie ‘does suggest that you know [the person] knew it was false’ and said it anyway. ‘Absent evidence of that,’ Baron said, don’t expect the Washington Post to use the L word in reporting about the current administration.”

Snowden is focusing on “how to protect reporters and the people who feed them information in an era of eroding privacy—without requiring them to have an NSA analyst’s expertise in encryption or to exile them­selves to Moscow.”

“Matt now has more than 48,000 newsletter subscribers (and an enviable open rate over 50 percent) and is on pace to receive more than 2.5 million pageviews in February.”

“We are seeing huge uplift, and I don’t think we would have if we had stayed on the edges.”

“Roughly 60 percent of the articles and videos on the site are submitted by readers, then edited by Blavity’s staff.”

“New digital brands get on the scene and say, ‘I’ve got to get to 20 million [visitors], 50 million, whatever.’ It’s not about cultivating a brand or a voice. We could have the coolest ad product in the world, but it doesn’t matter if we’re not good, interesting and different and mean something to the audience we want to reach.”

“The goal: to foster closer relationships with U.K. and pan-Europe agencies and marketers on bespoke programmatic deals, and build the kind of long-term relationships with clients that it has in its core U.S. market.” —LO

“One thing we know about Donald Trump is that there are a lot of things Donald Trump doesn’t want people to know about. If you’ve reached this page, you might have information about the conduct of Donald Trump or his administration that you’d like people to know about. Here’s how you can tell us,” the site explains.