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	Podcast:		The MediaShift Podcast
	Episode:		#215: Fake News Gets Real with #PizzaGate Shooting; Mic’s Cory Haik on Rise of Notifications
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:50:23
	Publish Date:		2016-12-08 21:43:16
	Description:		In the news this week, fake news gets very real as a man with an assault rifle goes into a pizza place in DC targeted by online conspiracy theories. The New York Times continues to get a “Trump bump” in subscriptions, while its public editor Liz Spayd gets in hot water for criticizing reporters’ tweets. Top YouTube earner PewDiePie brings in $15 million, but threatens to quit YouTube. Go figure. Politico’s Joe Pompeo joins us to discuss the Huffington Post’s new editor-in-chief, Lydia Polgreen. We grade our metrics predictions for 2016 to see how we did, and we ask Mic’s Cory Haik to talk about the notifications craze among news publishers and how far they’ll take it.
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