More than 35 people died in Friday night’s Oakland, Calif. warehouse fire. A distraught Derick Almena, the building’s landlord, appeared on The Today Show Tuesday hoping to apologize to the public. But, the interview took a quick turn when the co-hosts asked some pointed questions. Were they too hard on him? Or, where they asking the same questions investigators would likely ask?
Eun Kyung Kim, NBC News: “’I’m not going to answer these questions’: Oakland warehouse manager Derick Almena anguished in interview”
Elizabeth Weise, USA Today: “Oakland fire puts spotlight on lack of affordable spaces for artists”
Alyssa Newcomb, NBC News: “Oakland fire exposes Silicon Valley’s ugly housing crisis”
Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle: “Among Oakland’s dozens of artist warehouses is one called Deathtrap”
Fake news with real implications
Eric Lipton, New York Times: “Man motivated by ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theory arrested in Washington gunfire”
Faiz Siddiqui & Susan Svrluga, Washington Post: “N.C. man told police he went to D.C. pizzeria with gun to investigate conspiracy theory”
Kevin Bohn, Daniel Allman & Greg Clary, CNN: “Police: Gun-brandishing man sought to investigate conspiracy theory”
Tim Mak, The Daily Beast: “’Pizzagate’gunman liked Alex Jones”
Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed: “How the bizarre conspiracy theory behind ‘Pizzagate’ was spread”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWbjZF1WO70
Kait Richmond and Tatianna Amatruda, CNN: “Why Trump supporters stand by debunked claim”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “Trump supporters bought bogus Obama conspiracy theory peddled by Fox Business”
Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “CNN-famous Trump supporter cites ‘confusion’ on whether Obama said undocumented immigrants could vote”
Chris Sanchez, Business Insider: “Trump supporters stun CNN host with question about voter fraud”
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: “Trump supporters inadvertently show how easily misinformation spreads online”
Christian Datoc, The Daily Caller: “CNN host questions Trump supporters on voter fraud
David A. Graham, The Atlantic: “The ‘Comet Pizza’ gunman provides a glimpse of a frightening future”
Brian Stelter, CNN Money: “Fake news, real violence: ‘Pizzagate’ and the consequences of an internet echo chamber”
Brian Melley, Associated Press: “Police use ‘fake news’ in sting aimed at California gang”
James Warren, Poynter: “The worst kind of fake news comes from the cops”
CNN’s producer’s off-air joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09NWpTxIuHc
Scott Jones, FTV Live: “CNN crew jokes about Donald Trump’s plane crashing”
Kelsey Sutton, POLITICO: “CNN apologizes to Trump transition team after ‘unfortunate and inappropriate’ off-air joke”
$10,000 subscriptions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poqmQjbGS8I
Laura Hazard Owen, Nieman Journalism Lab: “The premise of Jim VandeHei’s new media venture: People who care about real news are now a niche”
Axios: “The Axios Manifesto”
Nathan McAlone, Business Insider: “’Axios’– here’s everything we know about it”
Sarah Ellison, Vanity Fair: “Exclusive: Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei reveal their plan for media domination”
Jim Warren, Poynter: “Will people pay $10,000 to read Politico founder’s new startup?”
Johana Bhuiyan, Recode: “Jim VandeHei’s new site wants writers with newsletters that have 10,000 or more followers”
Merissa Marr, Columbia Journalism Review: “Inside (the) information”
Obama's next move
Jake Horowitz, Mic: “Obama considering post-presidential digital media career, sources say”
Peter Sterne, POLITICO: “White House: President Obama has ‘no plans to enter the media business’”
Benjamin Mullin, Poynter: “Here are all the jokes about President Obama starting a digital media company”
