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Shifts and nuances in the way we communicate online.
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President-elect Donald Trump has faced mounting pressure to repudiate the alt-right. Now, the leading style guide for U.S. journalists says,
""Avoid using the term generically and without definition...because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters’ actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience... . In the past we have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi or white supremacist." 
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Even if you avoided Gawker.com, you can’t escape its influence. Elements of its tone, style, sensibility, business model and work flow have colonized just about every other media company.
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Yahoo told dozens of employees at 15 digital publications that they were losing their jobs, part of a larger plan to cut the work force by 15 percent.
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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd went to Colorado, where she ate legal edible weed and ended up "curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours." The Twitterverse subsequently exploded with wittier than usual tweets. Which scores yet another point for stoners - they are funnier than alcoholics.
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It’s been almost six days since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared. Since then, we’ve seen a frantic search by multiple governments, militaries, and aviation authorities, with each new day bringing fresh revelations about where the plane might or might not have gone after it winked off of the radar. The Interwebs are full of theories, too, of course. But if you feel left out of this conversation, catch up with this one story and its accompanying map.
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While some dismissed the $250 million deal as the flashy act of an Internet billionaire, others speculated about why Jeffrey Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would want a publishing company and what he would do next.
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Major news stories increasingly find their own digital path, and no one feels the need to work with the traditional power players to make it happen.
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Yeah, last night was the TV debut of Chelsea Clinton, NBC's newest "journalist." All you non-famous kids out there who saddled yourselves with a lifetime of debt in order to pay for journalism school, who are now either unemployed or...
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Education scholars say youth are duped by sponsored content and don't always recognize political bias of social messages.
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If "fake news" sites tipped the 2016 U.S. presidential election in the wrong direction, we need to be vigilant to make sure that the next four years (and beyond) are not further manipulated.
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As more tech firms employ their own editing staffs, they are being viewed as something less than news organizations, but more than simple reflections of their growing audiences.
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By liking and retweeting every pointless and inconsequential Tweet in the past we have given the Twitter algorithm an untrue insight into what we really want to see. You will be served up with everything based on your past history this way, not what is truly meaningful. If you surround yourself with celebrities and like everything they say, that’s all you’ll ever see. Conversely, if you like tweets about local affairs and politics, then you’ll miss out on Kim Kardashian’s latest line of elastic band lingerie. It’s not all bad…
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From
qz
Traffic to the New York Times homepage fell by half in the last two years, according to the newspaper's internal review of its digital strategy. That's not necessarily a reflection of any problems at the Times but the reality of how news is now distributed on the Internet. Homepage traffic is declining at...
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"What a difference a few decades has made in the newspaper biz... If you think your Internet connection is slow, imagine waiting two hours for the daily newspaper to download. That was cutting-edge ..."
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From
gigaom
The New York Times has started experimenting with a system that highlights comments from readers alongside the story they are responding to, part of an increasing trend towards making the audience part of the process.
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More politicians are finding self-flattering ways around press conferences and on-the-record interviews. How? By making their own vanity videos.
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