The world will be watching as President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office Friday. Among the big issues we’re keeping an eye on: what his relationship will be with journalists. We got a glimpse of it during last week’s news conference, in which he lashed out at CNN’s Jim Acosta. Is that the new normal?
Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: “A hellscape of lies and distorted reality awaits journalists covering President Trump”
Jack Shafer, Politico: “Trump is making journalism great again”
Peter J. Boyer, Esquire: “Donald Trump may evict press from the White House”
Sarah Westwood, Washington Examiner: “Exclusive: Inside the Trump transition headquarters in Washington”
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: “Trump’s rift with press will grow if reporters are kicked out of White House”
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Matthew Ingram, Fortune: “Donald Trump: Playing nice won’t help the media”
Rebecca Shapiro, Huffington Post: “Rudy Giuliani just said Trump is trying to ‘get us back to a free press’”
Ali Dukakis, ABC News: “Trump team may move press briefing room out of the White House: Reince Priebus”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Media need no ‘new strategy’ to cover Donald Trump”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Fox News’s Chris Wallace: It’s not ‘quite fair’ to say Trump seeks to delegitimize the news media”
Michael Gove, The Sunday Times: “Donald Trump interview: Brexit will be a great thing”
Brian Flood, The Wrap: “Why Trump probably won’t trade his Twitter handle for @POTUS”
BuzzFeed’s decision to publish
Eugene Volokh, Washington Post: “When ‘there is serious reason to doubt’ rumors and allegations, is it libelous to publish them?”
Ken Bensinger, Miriam Elder & Mark Schoofs, BuzzFeed: “These reports allege Trump has deep ties to Russia”
Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper & Carl Bernstein: “Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims fo Russian efforts to compromise him”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “BuzzFeed’s ridiculous rationale for publishing the Trump-Russia dossier”
David A. Graham, The Atlantic: “Why did BuzzFeed publish the Trump dossier?”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith: “We didn’t want to ‘suppress’ salacious allegations”
Kelsey Sutton, Politico: “BuzzFeed CEO: ‘We stand with ben’ on publication of intel dossier”
Jenna Amatulli, Huffington Post: “BuzzFeed sells out of ‘garbage’ swag a day after Trump’s insult"
How Acosta became the target
Justin Baragona, Mediaite: “’He has our complete support’: CNN defends Jim Acosta against attacks from Sean Spicer”
Kelsey Sutton, Politico: “Texas congressman calls for CNN correspondent to be fired”
Kelsey Sutton, Politico: “Trump calls CNN ‘fake news,’ as channel defends its reporting on intelligence briefing”
Jenna Amatulli, Huffington Post: “Shep Smith says journalists shouldn’t be subjected to Donald Trump’s ‘belittling’”
Amanda Erickson, Washington Post: “Amid Turkey’s media crackdown, Erdogan praises Trump for putting CNN reporter ‘in his place’”
Michael Grynbaum, New York Times: “Donald Trump’s news session starts war with media and within media”
Facebook to filter fake news
Amar Toor, The Verge: “Facebook rolls out fake news filter in Germany”
Natasha Loomis, TechCrunch: “Facebook takes its fake news fight to Germany”
Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed: “Facebook is expanding its program to fight fake news into Germany”
Jessica Davies, Digiday: “Facebook’s European media chief: Fake news is a ‘game of whack-a-mole’”
Morning TV turns 65
Brian Stelter, CNN: “How the ‘Today’ show invented morning TV”
Zoe Marcus, NBC: “Watch 65 years of Today fly by in 65 seconds”
Publicly shaming photobombers
