During his presidential campaign, Trump attacked journalists many times - sometimes specific journalists, sometimes the profession as a whole.

He called the media "crooked as hell". He barred journalists from Politico, BuzzFeed News, The Huffington Post and the Washington Post from getting press credentials to report from his rallies and events.

He called an NBC journalist "third-rate" and accused her of lying, and he has a long-running and well-publicised feud with Fox News host Megyn Kelly.

So what now for his relationship with the press?

Trump's first speech in victory struck a conciliatory tone - but in the Washington Post, Margaret Sullivan argues that journalists are going to have to be "stronger, more courageous, stiffer-spined than ever before, external" when he is president.

"We have to keep doing our jobs of truth-telling, challenging power and holding those in power accountable," she writes.

"It’s also going to be more difficult in a world in which people wear T-shirts that read: 'Tree. Rope. Journalist. (Some assembly required.)' That’s been seen at Trump rallies and heartily approved of on social media."

Here's a tweet from a couple of days ago, with a picture of someone at a Trump rally wearing a T-shirt like the ones she describes.

Google Trends has revealed which questions people are asking most on the search engine about Donald Trump since his victory last night. Here's our best go at answering them:

1. Trump begins his presidency on 20 January next year, when President Obama officially hands over the reigns at the inauguration ceremony in Washington DC. 
2. If he'd lost, maybe another season of The Apprentice? We'll never know. Now, he'll be taking calls from Republicans hoping for a role in his administration and world leaders trying to get off on the right foot. As for his first 100 days as president, he has a long to-do list.  
3. Trump won't be able to make any changes to legislation until January. In terms of how Americans react, we've seen some relatively small protests across the country but it's hard to know whether they will grow in size or fade away. One thing to keep an eye is how the financial world reacts, and so far US markets seem to be stable. 
4. On 20 January 2017. 
5. Fortunately for us, the BBC's Anthony Zurcher, external has dealt with that question: Five reasons Trump won. 

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Californian legislative leaders released a statement, external on Trump's startling victory, saying the state's voters "overwhelmingly rejected politics fuelled by resentment, bigotry, and misogyny". 

"Today, we woke up feeling like strangers in a foreign land, because yesterday Americans expressed their views on a pluralistic and democratic society that are clearly inconsistent with the values of the people of California," the statement read. 

"California was not a part of this nation when its history began, but we are clearly now the keeper of its future."

The heavily Democratic state voted to legalise recreation marijuana, toughen gun control measures, extend an income tax on the wealthy, eased parole rules and overturned a law that restricted biingual education. 

California also elected Attorney General Kamala Harris to the US Senate, making her the first black woman since Carol Moseley Braun in 1999.

Meanwhile, Californians called for #Calexit, which trended on Twitter, referring to Brexit and seceding from the US. 

 Venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar declared on Twitter he would fund a "legitimate campaign for Californa to become its own nation". 

 Pishevar pointed out California had the sixth largest economy in the world. 

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Wikileaks have, one day after the election, released another batch of emails belonging to John Podesta, Clinton's former campaign manager.

Julian Assange, on the eve of the election, had sought to explain why his organisation published dump after dump after dump of private emails relating the Democratic candidate.

"The right to receive and impart true information is the guiding principle of WikiLeaks—an organisation that has a staff and organistional mission far beyond myself. Our organisation defends the public's right to be informed", wrote Assange, external, who is currently being shielded from prosecution by the Ecuadorian government inside their London embassy.

"This is why, irrespective of the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election, the real victor is the US public, which is better informed as a result of our work," he adds.

Some British tabloids have speculated, external that Assange may be seeking Trump's help to secure a pardon, so as to avoid prosecution in Sweden where he is wanted for a sex crime. 

In America, some conservatives have tweeted their appreciation for the Wikileaks revelations.

Also on Wednesday Sergei Markov, a pro-Kremlin political analyst told the Guardian “maybe we helped a bit with WikiLeaks.”, external The US government has formally accused Russia of hacking into Democratic servers on behalf of Wikileaks. 

French left-wing newspaper Liberation has a striking front page for tomorrow's edition.

President Barack Obama is popular in France. His successor, less so. 

And here's a reminder of Liberation's memorable front after the Brexit vote (that's now UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in the air):

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Enthusiasm in Iraq, fear in Zimbabwe and Argentina, anxious optimism in Pakistan... how have the BBC World Service's listeners around the world reacted to Trump's election?

George RR Martin, the novelist of the Game of Thrones series, has posted a blog criticising America:

"America has spoken. I really thought we were better than this. Guess not...

"Over the next four years, our problems are going to get much, much worse.

"Winter is coming. I told you so."

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BBC Newsnight

Donald Trump hasn't been shy of making headlines with provocative statements during his campaign. Here's a reminder of some of them.

New York University's Muslim Students Association said graffiti on a prayer room door at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering was a "chilling wake-up call".

Here is the group's post on Facebook:

"We know that Trump will try and slam the brakes on global action for the climate," says May Boeve from international environment campaign group 350.org.

She was speaking to the BBC World Service's Newshour programme.

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There have been a few protests across America today following Donald Trump's win last night. 

In Oakland, California, demonstrators set fire to rubbish bins and marched through the streets and in Portland, Oregon, protesters blocked downtown traffic while chanting "not my president".

Hundreds of students in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Seattle, Washington, as well as in smaller towns around America, walked out of class in an effort to "stop president Trump".

Notable protests have also held in Des Moines, Iowa and Austin, Texas. 

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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced plans to meet with the president-elect.

He told journalists on Wednesday that he had spoken over the phone with the Republican candidate whose rhetoric has angered Mexicans. 

The pair had a "cordial, friendly and respectful" phone conversation during which he congratulated Trump on his victory. 

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Though Hillary Clinton did not shatter the symbolic glass ceiling at the Javits Center in New York City last night, Trump supporters pointed to another woman who did. 

Twitter users celebrated Kellyanne Conway for becoming the first woman to lead a successful presidential campaign. 

She became the first woman to do for Republicans earlier this year when she was promoted to the role in August. 

Susan Estrich was the first woman to run a US presidential campaign when she managed Michael Dukakis's failed bid for the White House against George HW Bush in 1988. 

Republican control of both houses of Congress means President Trump will be able to swiftly set about chopping down President Obama’s legacy.

They might, for instance, start by axing Obamacare.

And Republican control of the Senate means that Mr Trump will leave as his legacy a more conservative majority on the Supreme Court - which is split between conservatives and liberals at the moment. Trump will start by nominating a successor to conservative Justice Antonin Scalia who died during the campaign.

He wrote a list of potential replacements some time back - it's been deleted from his website but here's the Google cached version, external.

A conservative Supreme Court could mean changes on laws around matters including abortion and gun laws.

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Vice President Joe Biden was at President Obama's side as he held a news conference earlier today to address Donald Trump's victory - and he brought some much needed joy to Democrats. 

Despite losing the election on electoral college votes, Hillary Clinton holds a narrow lead in the nationwide popular vote. 

With several million votes still to be counted, she has 47.7% of the popular vote with Trump on 47.5%, according to the AP news agency. 

As documentary filmmaker Michael Moore suggests below, that won't help Democrats accept that Trump will be the country's next president.

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Trump has made many campaign promises in his 500+ days of campaigning, and he outlined recently his first 100 days in office during a speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - the site of one of America's bloodiest civil war battles. 

We've taken a look at some of his campaign pledges, and what he can actually do.

Will he deport more than 10 million undocumented immigrants? Can he repeal every Obama executive order? What will he do to the US relationship with the United Nations?

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Preliminary data suggests turnout may have dipped to the lowest turnout since the George W Bush v John Kerry 2004 election, Vox reports, external. 

So far an estimated 128.8 million Americans showed up to cast a ballot out of 231 million eligible voters, according to the US Elections Projec, externalt. 

Many pundits thought the 2016 election might break turnout records after voter registration appeared to be at an all-time high. 

The Federal Aviation Administration has announced new restrictions affecting aircraft flying over Midtown Manhattan, where Trump Tower is located.

They issued a "notice to airmen" on Wednesday saying that effective immediately flights must travel over 3,000 feet when passing over the New York City island due to "VIP activity".

The notice continues until 21 January, one day after Trump moves into the White House.

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