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Alex Pareene / Gawker:
Trump retweeted a Gawker bot that tweeted Mussolini quotes and attributed them to Trump — How We Fooled Donald Trump Into Retweeting Benito Mussolini — Is Donald Trump a fascist? Experts, historians, and pundits have debated the question for months. One thing has been certain for a while now: He tweets like one.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
MSNBC and Melissa Harris-Perry confirm they are parting ways, in talks about an exit deal — Melissa Harris-Perry is out at MSNBC — Melissa Harris-Perry will not be back on MSNBC. — On Sunday morning, two days after the host's private fight with management went public …
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Melissa Harris-Perry refuses to host her MSNBC show Saturday after weeks of preemptions and what she calls loss of editorial control
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Jamil Smith / Medium:
Melissa Harris-Perry's email to staffers of her show: I love our show. I want it back.
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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
The Best Picture Oscar goes to Spotlight, chronicling the Boston Globe's work to expose sex abuse in the Catholic church — Oscars 2016: Spotlight wins Best Picture — Leave it to good old fashioned journalism to throw off The Revenant's big night: Spotlight just won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
New York Times' Josh Barro rejoining Business Insider as senior editor, columnist — Josh Barro to return to Business Insider — Josh Barro is returning to Business Insider as senior editor, the site will announce on Monday. — Barro will take charge of the site's commentary team …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
ESPN digital editorial director Chad Millman on the company's mobile content strategy — Inside ESPN's mobile strategy: “If we're thinking about anything else, we're failing the audience” — ESPN is at a crossroads. Its business model, which has long been dependent on cable subscription fees …
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Trinity Mirror launches The New Day, Britain's first new national newspaper in 30 years — The New Day: New daily national newspaper launches with free edition — The New Day, Britain's first new national newspaper in 30 years, has rolled off the presses today.
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Viceland, Vice Media's joint cable channel with A&E, launches Monday with roster of major advertisers — Vice Media to Launch Its Own Cable TV Channel — Venture with A+E, which goes live Monday, has assembled roster of big advertisers drawn by promise of a young audience
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Bloomberg Business:
China shuts down Weibo and Tencent accounts of celebrity Ren Zhiqiang, with 37M+ followers, after he criticized campaign to tighten media control — Chinese Tycoon Loses 37 Million Web Followers After Faulting Xi — Internet regulator closes Ren Zhiqiang's social media accounts
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Jason Burke / Guardian:
How terrorists have used media, from Bin Laden to ISIS, and how groups adapt to maintain viewer attention — How the changing media is changing terrorism — Just like news organisations, terrorists need an audience - and both have adapted their tactics to keep your attention
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Malcolm Harris / Al Jazeera America:
Columnists at the New York Times have become brands more than writers, dispensing rhetoric without responsibility, turning the job into a mockery — Purge The New York Times op-ed page — The paper of record has let its opinion columns degrade into self-parody
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Sheera Frenkel / BuzzFeed:
Inside the US government's effort to enlist tech and media into the fight against ISIS, where lack of trust and a dearth of Arab voices stymie concrete steps — Inside The Obama Administration's Attempt To Bring Tech Companies Into The Fight Against ISIS — WASHINGTON, D.C. …
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