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In the six months since a shotgun-wielding man stormed the Capital Gazette’s newsroom in Annapolis, the legacy of the horrific crime has begun to take shape even as it continues to unfold...http://ow.ly/5PSZ30n518v 

The German news weekly Der Spiegel is to publish a 23-page special report on how one of its award-winning reporters faked stories for years and dealt a blow to media credibility...http://ow.ly/n6GZ30n50j9 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began the year by pledging to fix the company's problems, but instead 2018 turned into 12 months of mea culpas, self-inflicted scandals, and screwups.http://ow.ly/aebQ30n4YBP 

The BBC has taken audiences to the Democratic Republic of Congo in its latest virtual reality (VR) experience, offering them an immersive journey through the country.http://ow.ly/N24r30n4WQy 

Twitter was down 11 percent today after a Citron Research report called the platform, the “Harvey Weinstein of social media”...Citron didn't mince words, basing their conclusions on an Amnesty International Report claiming widespread abuse on the platform.http://ow.ly/VIWi30n4UF1 

The Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment, which together orchestrate the iconic midnight celebration, says that the event this year will officially celebrate "journalists and press freedom"...http://ow.ly/pc6K30n4S7X 

Facebook Inc. will stop accepting campaign ads in Washington state after agreeing to pay more than $200,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging the company...violated state campaign finance laws by failing to maintain records of election ads on its platform.http://ow.ly/HXYt30n4PnU 

Political fact-checkers look at statements and lay out evidence to show to what degree the claim is accurate. An RJI student spoke to thee news organizations about their strategies for identifying which claims get checked and which don’t.http://ow.ly/z3oY30n4LW8 

After graduating, Alex George began working as a general assignment reporter at WTVC on a two-year-contract...after a gruelling first year...she was diagnosed with a primitive neuroectodermal tumor, a rare form of pediatric bone cancer...http://ow.ly/89a130n48cj 

There’s no shortage of tech companies ready to promise the world to journalists in the form of the Next Great Tool...Here are the tools that Poynter liked the most this year.http://ow.ly/S7Cc30n46iJ 

The journalistic landscape in the U.S. is volatile, and 2018 has been a harrowing year for press freedom. The Press Freedom Tracker has documented more than 100 press freedom incidents since January...http://ow.ly/eMPO30n41bc 

Poynter revisits their 10 most-clicked fact-checking articles of 2018.http://ow.ly/tJtj30n3YtV 

Tech companies that depend on advertising as their primary source of revenue like to describe themselves as mere platforms to share content, but their similarity to publishers grows every year.http://ow.ly/zHdt30n3VpD 

The Whistle, an Israeli fact-checking website...is a relatively young organization...In order to prepare for the upcoming 2019 Israeli general election, they sought to learn from the experience of U.S. fact-checkers at the (Poynter-owned) PolitiFact.http://ow.ly/bijB30n3ReR 

When digital media site Mic went bust earlier this month, it sparked an inferno of postmortems...But the reality is that plenty of VC-backed digital media companies are very much alive and kicking.http://ow.ly/Uban30n3hEZ 

Nine months after a whistleblower revealed Facebook had allowed outsiders to improperly access personal information about millions of its users, the social media giant faced its first major rebuke from regulators in the United States...http://ow.ly/AquZ30n3gxn 

Hot on the heels of reports that reveal AR and VR will become mainstream sooner than we expect, media companies are lining up to test the waters and push the boundaries...One company that is further along on learning curve is USA TODAY NETWORK...http://ow.ly/2woR30n3eT0 

Facebook has discovered and removed another coordinated hate campaign operated by the Myanmar military, which has used the service to spread false news and insults about the Rohingya people, Myanmar’s mostly Muslim ethnic minority.http://ow.ly/ykCO30n3c6p