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The 016, a social network for Worcester, seeks to become a “delivery boy and booster” for local media

@jbenton: Does anti-Facebook fervor mean it's a good time to create...a local social network? Built around news? @InThe016 i… ➚

Washington Post

Faked Pelosi videos, slowed to make her appear drunk, spread across social media

@washingtonpost: Distorted videos Pelosi, altered to make her appear drunk and slurring, are spreading rapidly across social media,… ➚

International News Media Association (INMA)

Trump vs. New York Times: the executive editor’s perspective

@earljwilkinson: NYT's executive editor spoke at INMA's World Congress of News Media last week. He talked about Trump and politics,… ➚

Washington Post

Opinion | How do we avoid another ‘But her emails’ in 2020?

@washingtonpost: Opinion: How do we avoid another "But her emails" in 2020? ➚

Columbia Journalism Review

The platform patrons: How Facebook and Google became two of the biggest funders of journalism in the world

@mathewi: This is the piece I mentioned earlier about the risks of journalistic entities taking funding from Google and Faceb… ➚

Opinion | America’s Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals.

@fmanjoo: California is the most poverty-stricken state, if you account for housing. Yet NIMBY dems again stalled zoning re… ➚

Facebook Has More Fake Accounts Than Ever Before, Even After Removing 2 Billion Profiles

@CraigSilverman: Sooo, you know how Facebook removed almost 2.2 billion fake accounts last quarter? Well, the number of *active* fak… ➚

Another milestone passed for newspapers: The Boston Globe is the first local newspaper to have more digital subscribers than print

@AnthonyQuintano: The Boston Globe is the first local newspaper to have more digital subscribers than print ➚ via @NiemanLab

Washington Post

Facebook acknowledges Pelosi video is faked but declines to delete it

@washingtonpost: Facebook acknowledges Pelosi video is faked but declines to delete it ➚

Distorted Videos of Nancy Pelosi Spread on Facebook and Twitter, Helped by Trump

@palafo: I saw a lot of Twitter accounts sharing this manipulated video as if it were true, after Trump's "crazy Nancy" comm… ➚

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s audience team stopped putting all their time into Twitter (and referral traffic stayed the same)

@kristenhare: The Philadelphia Inquirer’s audience team used to spend 80% of its time on Twitter for a 2-3% return in referral tr… ➚

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

@ev: The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by @ystrickler ➚

Winter may be coming for HBO’s streaming subscriptions, but it doesn’t have to for your news organization

@jbenton: A little known codicil of the SPJ's Journalist Code of Ethics requires every news organization to produce at least… ➚

People lie about going to church and aren’t sure what “rural” means: Highlights from the latest in public opinion research

@jbenton: People lie about going to church and aren't sure what "rural" means: I pulled together some of the most interesting… ➚

Medium CEO Ev Williams Goes All-In on Building Subscription Business

@alexeheath: Scooplet in here: Medium has between 200-400K paying subscribers. (Membership costs $50 per year.) The company look… ➚

Men outnumber women in U.S. newsrooms. It’s no different among fact-checkers.

@dpfunke: New from me: Women are underrepresented in fact-checking newsrooms worldwide ➚

From Walkman to podcast: Sony Music moves into the podcast business, setting the stage for other music companies

@jbenton: Had a little retro fun with this week's @nwquah Hot Pod art ➚ ➚

@KenDenmead: GeekDad: 'Ghosts of Saltmarsh' Delivers Epic ‘D&D’ Action Amid Rolling Tides and Aquatic Gems… ➚

McClatchy reports large increase in digital subscriptions, first quarter earnings loss

@NewspaperWorld: McClatchy reports large increase in digital subscriptions, first quarter earnings loss ➚

They risked their careers to expose the dangers children face in immigrant family detention

@dabeard: What doctors found US officials have done to caged kids: —Children's fingers crushed by cell doors. —A boy who'd l… ➚

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