Did Facebook’s news team suppress content from conservative news sources, purposely excluding it from its Trending Topics section? That’s the claim of a former employee who says curators regularly omitted stories based on politics.
Philip Bump, Washington Post: “Did Facebook bury conservative news? Ex-staffers say yes”
Ema O’Connor, BuzzFeed: “Facebook says it’s taking news bias allegations ‘very seriously’”
Michael Nunoz, Gizmodo: “Former Facebook workers: We routinely suppressed conservative news”
Nick Statt, The Verge: “Facebook says it doesn’t permit censorship in Trending Topics”
Leon H. Wolf, RedState: “Is Facebook suppressing RedState content?”
Tom Stocky, Facebook: “My team is responsible for…”
Kelly McBride, Poynter: “Ask the ethicist: “Is it right for Facebook to suppress conservative news?”
Big ag's involvement in cartoonist’s firing
Susan Du, City Pages: “Big ag forces Farm News to fire cartoonist Rick Friday”
Christine Hauser, New York Times: “Cartoonist fired from Farm News for pro-farmer cartoon”
Jack Murtha, Columbia Journalism Review: “Why the controversy over an Iowa cartoonist is no laughing matter”
Dateline: North Korea
Christine Hauser, New York Times: “Dateline North Korea, but still reporting from a distance”
Anna Fifield, Washington Post: “North Korea announces five-year economic plan, its first since 1980s”
Brian Padden, Voice of America: “Foreign media in Pyongyang barred from North Korea”
Anna Fiefield Washington Post: “North Korea leader hails nuclear and missile advances as rare party congress opens”
Kim Gamel, Stars and Stripes: “North Korea opens ruling party congress behind closed doors”
Eric Talmadge, Associate Press: “North Korea opens first ruling party congress since 1980 – but reporters bused to venue must stay outside”
BBC, “BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and team expelled from North Korea”
Lexi Finnegan, The Telegraph: “Who is BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, what has he reported on North Korea, and why has he been expelled?”
Selling the Iran deal
Paul Farhi, Washington Post: “Obama official says he pushed a ‘narrative’ to media to sell the Iran nuclear deal”
Erik Wemple, Washignton Post: “White House official on some reporters’ overseas expertise: ‘They literally know nothing’”
Jack Shafer, POLITICO Magazine: “How Obama manipulates the news”
David Samuels, New York Times: “The aspiring novelist who became Obama’s foreign-policy guru”
Kevin Drum, Mother Jones: “Let us now psychoanalyze young Ben Rhodes”
Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show: “The New York Times celebrates how an Obama aide with no experience helped his boss dupe America on the Iran deal”
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: “Journalists dispute claim they helped sell White House Iran deal”
Josh Gerstein, POLITICO: “Sources: Obama transparency official stepping down”
Tribune's 'poison pill'
Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter: “Tribune Publishing adopts ‘poison pill’ after Gannett takeover offer”
James Warren, Poynter: “Tribune Publishing tries to foil Gannett with ‘poison pill’”
Paul Barbagallo, Bloomberg: “Tribune adopts poison-pill plan after Gannett’s hostile bid”
Austen Hufford, Wall Street Journal: “Tribune Publishing adopts poison pill to stop Gannett offer”
The end for 'New Day'
Roy Greenslade, The Guardian: “Why The New Day didn’t work… and had no hope of working”
Alanna Petroff, CNN Money: “This newspaper died after just 10 weeks”
Nicola Clark, New York Times: “New Day, British newspaper that shunned web, will close after 10 weeks”
Nicola Clark, New York Times: “The New Day, a British Upstart, casts its fate to the newsstand”
Roy Greenslade, The Guardian: “The New Day lives up to its promise to be a different kind of daily”
Kate Ferguson, Mirror Online: “The New Day – The UK’s first new standalone national daily newspaper for 30 years launched as ‘optimistic, neutral’ title”
Roy Greenslade, The Guardian: “Can newspapers do anything to stop the advertising exodus?”
Roy Greenslade, The Guardian: “Alison Phillips: ‘The New Day is about looking behind the news’”
Laura Slattery, The Irish Times: “The riddle of the ‘New Day,’ a newspaper launched in 2016”
Alexander Chancellor, The Spectator: “Reading the Mirror’s new newspaper makes me want to throw myself on a bonfire”
