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Alex Hern / Guardian:
Major sites including New York Times and BBC hit by ‘ransomware’ malvertising — Adverts hijacked by malicious campaign that demands payment in bitcoin to unlock user computers — A number of major news websites have seen adverts hijacked by a malicious campaign that attempts to install …
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Malwarebytes Labs, BBC, Ars Technica, Trustwave, BetaNews, CSO, Telegraph, CNBC, @asymbina, @dansinker, ComputerWeekly, ZDNet, @getadblock, Computerworld, TechWeekEurope UK, @clipperchip, PC Perspective, Talking New Media, BetaNews, @s_m_i, The Next Web, @segphault, @jenstar, Softpedia News, The Register, Neowin and SiliconBeat
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump campaign blocks Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger from Tuesday night press conference — POLITICO reporter denied access to Trump event — POLITICO reporter Ben Schreckinger was denied entry to Donald Trump's press conference on Tuesday night, despite having previously been granted credentials by the campaign.
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Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:
Sources: Breitbart News Chairman Stephen Bannon must approve everything written about Trump at site
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Breitbart sends ‘cease and desist’ letters to former staffers
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The Wrap, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Mediaite, Joe.My.God. and National Review
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Les Moonves says CBS will sell, swap, or spin off its radio assets in the coming year — CBS Plans to Sell Radio Station Group — CBS plans to sell or spinoff its radio assets in the coming year, acknowledging that the business has become slow-growth and a drain on resources …
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Los Angeles Times, Radio & Television …, New York Times, Deadline, RAIN News, Crain's New York Business, Crain's Detroit Business, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business, Boston Herald, Billboard, New York Post, Press Association, Media Life Magazine, @getnickwright, Hollywood Reporter, FishbowlNY, Reuters, The Wrap, Los Angeles Business … and The Wrap
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Forbes investigates after ‘contributor’ asks PR for £300 to write online profile — Freelance journalist asked for ‘someone to fund my time’ saying they were 'only paid a very small sum by Forbes which doesn't stretch far' — US business publisher Forbes has launched an investigation …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler poised to circulate draft order approving Charter-TWC deal as soon as this week, with clauses ensuring growth of online video — FCC Drafting Order to Approve Charter-Time Warner Cable Deal — Order, expected as soon as this week, will set conditions focusing on promoting online video competition
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Free Press Blog, The Hill, The Wrap, ZDNet, The Verge, Light Reading, Consumerist, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, Variety, Deadline and Fortune
Nathalie Tadena / Wall Street Journal:
Retailer Lord & Taylor settles with FTC for not making clear disclosures that it paid for Nylon magazine article and social influencer Instagram posts — Lord & Taylor Reaches Settlement with FTC Over Native Ad Disclosures — FTC said retailer didn't make clear that it paid for magazine article, social influencer posts
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Federal Trade Commission, CNBC, Adweek, Reuters, CBS News, ABC News, USA Today, Marketing Land, Ad Age, Associated Press, Fortune and Refinery29
Geoffrey Mohan / Los Angeles Times:
Tribune Publishing's bid for O.C. Register faces antitrust hurdles, DOJ says — Newspaper boxes outside the Orange County Register in Santa Ana. A $45.5-million bid from Digital First Media for the assets of parent Freedom Communications will be the “stalking horse” bid in an auction Wednesday.
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Orange County Register, Politico, LA Observed, @lexalexander, @raju and Orange County Register
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
CNN investing $20M, hiring 200+ and cutting 50+ in shift to better compete with new media firms like BuzzFeed, adds team for custom Snapchat, Facebook content — CNN to Pump $20 Million Into Digital Expansion — Turner network plans to hire over 200 people, invest in mobile and video products
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@digitalshields, Washington Post, The Wrap, @elanazak, FishbowlNY, @mlcalderone and @jasonabbruzzese
Jacob Silverman / The Baffler:
How a writer went from earning $150 per piece for the Atlantic to $2K for one story for its paid content wing, and discovered there is money in journalism — The Rest Is Advertising — Recently, I landed the tech-journalism equivalent of a Thomas Pynchon interview: I got someone from Twitter to answer my call.
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@mathewi, @kgreen, @herandrews, @bellamackie, @mythilirao, @heydonnelly, @michaelroston, @dangb88, @davebry9, @stevesilberman, @annabrones, @ravisomaiya, @chaykak, @kmonson and The Awl
Washington Post:
Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xi's resignation — Two weeks after China's President toured state media offices and called for absolute loyalty from the press, a website with links to the government published an explosive letter asking him to resign …
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BBC, @williamsjon, Guardian, @annafifield, Wall Street Journal and Shanghaiist
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
After an article on the legislative record of Bernie Sanders was widely shared, The New York Times made significant edits to make it less flattering — How the ‘New York Times’ Sandbagged Bernie Sanders — Online, we see both faces of the Gray Lady — The New York Times ran a piece …
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Fortune, Gawker, The Broken Ravioli, Washington Post, Sen. Bernie Sanders, @leahfinnegan, @leahfinnegan, Truthdig, @7im, @tmorman, @hughw, Truthdig, @david_j_roth, @reedfrich, @vimalpatel232, @mtaibbi, @viajoshhunt, @melikhovo, @viajoshhunt, @extrabaggs, Facebook, @junejohnson, @amkuehler and @conradhackett
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Viacom Elects Frederic Salerno to Be Independent Director — Ex-Verizon executive's Redstone ties date to at least 1994 — He's also on the board of CBS, another Redstone media property — Viacom Inc., facing internal board dissent and pressure from proxy advisers to improve its governance …
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Broadcasting & Cable, Variety, Deadline and The Wrap
Associated Press:
Indian journalists see more threats, attacks with Modi as PM — NEW DELHI (AP) — A newscast on whether India had become intolerant of dissent quickly spiraled into something darker after a guest on the program referred to a pamphlet that called the Hindu goddess Durga a sex worker.
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