September 25, 2017

Obama tried to warn Zuckerberg of fake news threat

This story, plus the Los Angeles Times now claims over 100,000 digital subscriptions, the Knight Foundation launches a new commission to address the decline in public trust in media, and more, all in today’s media headlines.

Top Stories

Sep 24, 2017

Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news on Facebook

Craig Timberg, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Adam Entous / The Washington Post

Sep 23, 2017

LA Times tops 100,000 in digital subscriptions

Ken Doctor / The Street

Sep 25, 2017

With $4.5 million, Knight is launching a new commission — and funding more new projects — to address declining public trust in media

Shan Wang / Nieman Journalism Lab

Press & Government

Sep 24, 2017

View: Pro-Trump media goes on offense for president in NFL controversy

Oliver Darcy / CNN

Sep 22, 2017

View: Trump’s challenge: Diverting the white-hot spotlight from the Mueller investigation

Howard Kurtz / Fox News

Television News

Sep 22, 2017

Nielsen sues ComScore to block new TV audience measurement service

Gene Maddaus / Variety

Sep 24, 2017

Residents protest Sinclair merger in front of Hunt Valley headquarters

Carrie Wells / The Baltimore Sun

Sep 25, 2017

View: Colbert, Kimmel and the politics of late night

Jim Rutenberg / The New York Times

Newspaper News

Sep 24, 2017

Mashable tests notion that ‘pivot to video’ leads to digital-media riches (SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED)

Suzanne Vranica, Lukas I. Alpert / The Wall Street Journal

International

Sep 24, 2017

View: Britain’s newspapers could learn a lot from Jimmy the milkman

Hugh Muir / The Guardian