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Col Allan, editor-in-chief of the New York Post and longest-serving editor at News Corp, is retiring, will be succeeded May 1 by Sunday editor Stephen Lynch — New York Post editor in chief Col Allan is retiring — Col Allan, longtime editor in chief of the New York Post and consigliere …


Battery charge against Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski after incident with ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields is officially dropped — Battery Charge Against Corey Lewandowski, Trump Campaign Manager, Is Dropped — Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager for Donald J. Trump …
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The Irish Times on sale in England may have breached injunction by naming site that revealed celebrity identities, making it easy to find information online — Irish Times Breaks Celebrity Threesome Injunction — Yesterday Guido gave an interview* to the Irish Times about the Celebrity Threesome Injunction.
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Media organizations win right to report anonymized issues on injunction hearing of alleged celebrity threesome — Media wins right to report on celebrity injunction hearing — Application argued for right to report anonymised issues in case involving alleged threesome in interest of open justice


The New York Times to invest $50M in global expansion over the next three years, with a team led by international editor Joe Kahn — Times sinks $50M into international push with ‘NYT Global’ — The New York Times will invest $50 million in its global expansion strategy over the next three years …


UC Davis spent $175K to remove references to 2011 pepper-spraying incident from search results — UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet — UC Davis sought to eliminate negative search results for school and chancellor — Strategic communications budget soared during Katehi's tenure
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Lead ICIJ coordinator says organization will release structured data, the internal Mossack Fonseca database, not the 11.5M files, in early May — The People and Tech Behind the Panama Papers — How Long-Term Infrastructure-Building Enabled the Biggest Leak in Data Journalism History

Sumner Redstone Won't Have to Give Deposition in Competency Suit — The ailing media mogul Sumner M. Redstone will not be required to sit for a deposition in the legal battle over his mental competency, a California judge ruled during a brief hearing on Thursday.
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Gannett, Hearst, McClatchy, Tribune announce Nucleus Marketing Solutions ad consortium, covering top 30 US markets; ex-Mashable CRO Seth Rogin named CEO — Newspaper kingpins launch marketing consortium … Four of America's largest newspaper companies on Thursday announced a marketing cooperative …
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Germany to prosecute German comic Jan Boehmermann over poem satirizing Turkish president Erdogan — Merkel Allows Probe of German Comedian Over Erdogan Satire — German satirist read lewd poem lampooning Turkish president — Merkel reliant on Erdogan to hold to refugee agreement

New study predicts 2M VR headsets will be sold this year, and 36.9M by 2020, but the medium is still six to eight years away from mainstream adoption — It May Take Years For Virtual Reality To Go Mainstream, Says New Report — Virtual reality is becoming a more popular technology …
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TNR editor in chief Gabriel Snyder is leaving the magazine — Gabriel Synder, editor in chief of The New Republic for the past 17 months, is leaving the magazine in the wake of its sale to Win McCormack, POLITICO has learned. — The masthead change marks the first big move since McCormack …
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