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LA Times staffers in dispute with bosses after Oscars tickets initially allocated to executives, leaving reporters unable to attend the event — Oscar spotlight a dim one for hometown L.A. Times — While old-fashioned investigative journalism took center stage in Los Angeles at the Oscars Sunday evening …
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LA Times Editor Davan Maharaj could be given joint publisher-and-editor role, more executives to depart in wake of CEO Jack Griffin's firing — Top Tribune executives said to be on the way out in house-cleaning — Some of Jack Griffin's top executive hires will soon follow him out the door at Tribune Publishing.
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Fake New York Times article claiming Elizabeth Warren endorsed Bernie Sanders was viewed over 50K times and received over 15K shares — Fake New York Times Article Claims Elizabeth Warren Endorsed Bernie Sanders — A webpage that masqueraded as a New York Times article and claimed …

New Yorker Managing Editor Silvia Killingsworth to join The Awl as editor-in-chief in April — Job Filled — We're thrilled to announce that Silvia Killingsworth will be joining us here in April. Silvia is currently the Managing Editor of the New Yorker, where she has spent …
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Forget ‘Spotlight’: There's a war against journalism — Excuse me for a) not watching the big Academy Awards whoopdedoo on Sunday night, where “Spotlight” — a movie about remarkable work by investigative journalists at an East Coast metro newspaper not unlike my own …
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Chris Morris, contract photographer for Time, roughed up by Secret Service agent at Trump rally at Radford University in Virginia — Time photographer roughed up by security at Trump event — Longtime Time contract photographer Chris Morris was roughed up by a security agent at a Donald Trump rally in Virginia on Monday.
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TIME Responds to Confrontation With Secret Service at Trump Event
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As MSNBC shifts focus from liberal talk shows to breaking news, opportunities at the network have diminished for nonwhite TV personalities — Is #MSNBCSoWhite? The departure of Melissa Harris-Perry raises the issue — MSNBC spent about six years building itself into a different kind …
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Melissa Harris-Perry was a rare voice of substance on cable news
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How a Fox News analyst, Wayne Simmons, fooled the network and conservative media into thinking he was an ex-CIA operative — The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst … Supported by — Kent Clizbe, a 55-year-old former C.I.A. officer and intelligence contractor, has cultivated a diverse set of interests in his later years.
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AT&T says it plans to launch a web TV service by this fall, to have three tiers including free — AT&T and DirecTV to launch streaming TV service later this year — AT&T has announced that it plans to offer internet-based streaming TV service later this year.


Guardian Editor Katharine Viner says she wants more readers to become paying “members” of the newspaper but rules out online paywall — Guardian editor Katharine Viner says plan is to ‘get readers paying for it’, but rules out online paywall — Guardian editor Katharine Viner …


Conde Nast acquires Poetic, London-based real-time content editing system, co-founded by ex-Twitter engineer Blaine Cook; terms not disclosed — Conde Nast Acquires U.K. Digital Publishing Startup Founded by Ex-Twitter Engineer — Condé Nast has acquired Poetica …
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Financial Times to launch on Facebook at Work, to offer business version of the network to its global staff — Financial Times to launch on Facebook at Work — The Financial Times is working with Facebook to offer a business version of the popular social network to its staff around the globe.
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Snapchat brings Live Stories to the web for the first time — Some of last night's most entertaining Oscars coverage was on Snapchat, but this year you didn't have to be inside Snapchat's app to see it: you could watch it all on the web. Snapchat quietly updated its website last night with a way to view the Oscars' Live Story online.
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The Economist to relaunch its lifestyle and culture title, Intelligent Life, as 1843 next week, will expand coverage beyond Europe to include Asia and America — The Economist relaunches Intelligent Life as 1843 — The Economist's lifestyle and culture title is getting a global makeover.
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