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Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and editor-at-large Ben Shapiro resign over site's handling of Trump controversy — Michelle Fields, Ben Shapiro Resign From Breitbart — “Today I informed the management at Breitbart News of my immediate resignation,” the reporter at the center …
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Breitbart Editor Ordered Staffers To Stop Defending Michelle Fields — “STOP tweeting about the story. Stop speculating about the story,” editor-at-large Joel Pollak told Bretibart staffers in internal chats, screenshots of which were obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
CBS News Reporter Sopan Deb Arrested While Covering Donald Trump Rally — He's charged with resisting arrest despite no evidence of doing so. — CBS News reporter Sopan Deb was arrested Friday night while covering protests surrounding Donald Trump's canceled rally in Chicago.
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
New York Times in talks with Atlantic's James Bennet to return in senior newsroom role — The New York Times has recently been trying to bring James Bennet, a former Times reporter and current editor of The Atlantic, back to the paper, POLITICO has learned from multiple sources either inside …
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Beau Yarbrough / L.A. Daily News:
Digital First Media makes $45.5M initial bid for OC Register and Riverside Press-Enterprise, setting bottom price for formal auction Wednesday — Digital First Media bids $45.5M for Orange County Register, Riverside Press-Enterprise — LOS ANGELES >> It'll cost at least $45.5 million …
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Hollywood Reporter:
Kevin Spacey backs out of a plan to serve as chairman of Relativity Media after it emerges from bankruptcy; Dana Brunetti will run it with CEO Ryan Kavanaugh — Kevin Spacey Pulls Out of Relativity Chairman Role (Exclusive) — The studio, however, is moving forward with Spacey's Trigger …
Marianne Bouchart / GEN:
Q&A with CNN Digital Editor-in-Chief Meredith Artley on distributed content, mobile-centric projects, and in-house tech — CNN's Meredith Artley on distributed content, metrics and innovation — “Gone are the days of digital having the audiences but not the revenue”.
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Will Worley / The Independent:
Reports: Facebook and Twitter throttled or blocked among other media restrictions in Turkey following explosion in Ankara — Turkish government ‘blocks Facebook and Twitter’ following Ankara explosion — The Turkish authorities have reportedly imposed media restrictions and residents …
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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Riff service uses a Chrome extension to play reaction videos alongside Netflix content — Riff wants to replace YouTube for TV show reaction videos — YouTube is a beautifully weird world full of surprises. It turns out there's a big community of TV show and movie reaction YouTubers out there.
Lauren Johnson / Adweek:
BuzzFeed unveils Swarm, which lets advertisers run simultaneous campaigns on its channels on Snapchat, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, more — BuzzFeed Launches New Ad Format to Further Monetize Its Big Social Reach — BuzzFeed's made a name for itself with a cross-platform distribution model …
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mUmBRELLA, @pashamalla, @noahr, MediaPost and @tomchirico
Kelly Hinchcliffe / Poynter:
Interview with BuzzFeed data editor Jeremy Singer-Vine on his newsletter, Data Is Plural — Meet the BuzzFeed editor whom data journalists love — Last fall, I started reading a newsletter by BuzzFeed data editor Jeremy Singer-Vine that combines three of my favorite things - journalism, public records and data.
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Wired's Scott Dadich Talks Tech and How Magazines Can Adapt to the Digital World — Scott Dadich, the editor in chief of Wired, quietly makes his way through the glossy corridors of Condé Nast, past its art gallery to a semiprivate area with couches.
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