US media
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Madam President: how Newsweek reported a Clinton victoryNewsweek’s editor did what any sensible magazine chief would have done by preparing an issue based on a very different US presidential result...
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Rolling Stone 'Jackie' trial: university administrator awarded $3m for defamationFormer associate dean of students Nicole Eramo wins case over discredited gang rape story that cast her as a villain -
Rolling Stone defamed university administrator in 'Jackie' story, jury findsSabrina Rubin Erdely, who wrote the discredited 2014 article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia, was also found guilty of libel with actual malice -
Rolling Stone defamation trial nears end as lawyers say facts of UVA case ignoredAttorneys for former UVA dean say journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely had an agenda, while magazine argues everyone who spoke to ‘Jackie’ believed her
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Martin Baron: 'We took Donald Trump seriously from the beginning'The Washington Post’s executive editor on breaking Trump’s Access Hollywood hot mic moment and the surprising positives of working beside software engineers
global view
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AT&T and Time Warner chiefs grilled on $85.4bn merger at Senate hearingSenators on antitrust subcommittee question CEOs Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson about harm to consumers that could result from mega-merger
opinion
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Steve Bell on Trump as Time magazine's person of the year – cartoonUS president-elect Donald Trump joins Obama, Hitler and Stalin on list of people deemed most influential ‘for better or for worse’
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The sight of a president-elect stirring things up on social media is novel. But it’s a shame it’s so easy to set the press off on a wild goose chaseIt’s all too easy for Trump to set the media a-twitter
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audio and video
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First Contact on SBS: meet the participants – videoFirst Contact follows Natalie Imbruglia, Tom Ballard, Ian Dickson, Nicki Wendt, Renae Ayris and David Oldfield as they come face to face with Indigenous Australia
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The banned Heinz Beanz's Can Song advert – videoA Heinz TV advert teaching viewers how to use cans of its baked beans to drum out a song has been banned for being dangerous for children to copy
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Barack Obama: fake news is a threat to democracy – videoUS president Barack Obama denounces the spate of misinformation across social media platforms, including Facebook, suggesting American politics can be affected
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Andrew Marr defends Remembrance Sunday interview with Le Pen – videoThe BBC presenter says he understands some people are ‘offended and upset’ that the interview with French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is broadcast on Remembrance Sunday
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Student’s fake John Lewis Christmas advert is runaway hit – videoAn A-level student who created a spoof John Lewis Christmas advert as part of his coursework has attracted hundreds of thousands of fans
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BBC Breakfast mixes up Nicola Sturgeon and Kumbuka the gorilla – videoBBC Breakfast apology after live gaffe leaves presenter unable to keep a straight face
What Donald Trump will have to accept: without journalism, there is no America