September 27, 2017

Twitter doubles character limit to 280

This story, plus pushback against Google’s efforts to fight fake news, Report for America launches, and more, all in today’s media headlines.

Top Stories

Sep 26, 2017

Twitter just doubled the character limit for tweets to 280

Casey Newton / The Verge

Sep 26, 2017

As Google fights fake news, voices on the margins raise alarm

daisuke wakabayashi / The New York Times

Sep 26, 2017

Report for America launches with a pilot in rural Appalachia

Kristen Hare / Poynter

Media Business

Sep 26, 2017

Washington Post digital subscriptions soar past 1 million mark

Brian Stelter / CNN

Sep 26, 2017

View: Newsonomics: Our Peggy Lee moment: Is that all there is to reader revenue?

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab

Press & Government

Sep 26, 2017

Scoop: The FEC’s plans for political ad disclosures

Sara Fischer / Axios

Sep 26, 2017

Trump appears to delete tweets backing Strange after primary loss

Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill

Sep 26, 2017

View: Media uses devastation in Puerto Rico as political football to attack Trump

Will Ricciardella / Daily Caller

Technology & News

Sep 26, 2017

The secret cost of pivoting to video

Heidi N. Moore / Columbia Journalism Review

Sep 26, 2017

Plex adds personalized, streaming news to its media player software

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch

Media Ethics

Sep 26, 2017

From breweries to GOP meetings, PolitiFact is on a quest to win over conservative America

Daniel Funke / Poynter

Sep 27, 2017

View: Transparency is the new objectivity

Gabriel Khan / MediaShift

Sep 26, 2017

View: Journalism magazine says it’s time to label Trump’s words ‘racist.’ Good.

Becket Adams / Washington Examiner

International

Sep 26, 2017

Facebook can’t say for sure whether Russians bought election ads in France and Germany

Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed