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VICE News reporter arrested outside a Donald Trump campaign event — Alex Thompson, a reporter for VICE News, was arrested by Houston Police today while inquiring about press access to an event held for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Omni Westside Hotel.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Major TV networks refused to cover Donald Trump giving a tour of his hotel, a protest of his campaign preventing any editorial presence on the tour — In a show of joint defiance, the major television networks collectively voted to pull a camera and erase video of Donald Trump giving a tour of his hotel …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
It's time for TV news to stop playing the stooge for Donald Trump — Donald Trump said “Jump,” and TV news said “How high?” — It happened again on Friday morning when the Republican presidential candidate held the media hostage for nearly an hour after promising a major news announcement.
Jeremiah Patterson / Online News Association:
Breaking News, Intercept, Quartz, New York Magazine take home 2016 Online Journalism Awards — DENVER — Superlative reporting on leaked data, prison reform and undue police force led coverage that garnered top honors for 35 media organizations Saturday night at the 2016 Online Journalism Awards …
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Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
Larry King, Ed Schultz, and Jesse Ventura legitimize pro-Kremlin messages as hosts on RT, Russia's English-language news and propaganda outlet — Inside Russia Today's American headquarters in Washington, across from the receptionist's desk stamped by a lime green “RT” banner …
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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
As Netflix asserts itself, studio and cable channels fret that the streaming company is headed for a near-monopoly in entertainment — The streaming service is spending $6 billion a year on content, choking basic cable and brusquely rattling the relationship business of the town as fears …
Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with Disney/ABC TV's President Ben Sherwood, on a potential Star Wars series, mistakes in Michael Strahan's Live exit, and Bob Iger's future — “We made some mistakes, we fixed them quickly and we moved on,” says the television group president as he tackles 'GMA's' viewership decline …
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Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Disney/ABC Taps Bruce Rosenblum as President of Business Ops
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
How Business Insider got 230K Line followers in two weeks: 10 pieces of content a day, focus on tech and finance news, use emojis to liven up staid content — Business Insider landed on Japanese messaging app Line two weeks ago. Since then, it has grown its following to nearly 230,000 …
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
NFL ratings: over 2M watched Thursday's game stream on Twitter, with an average of 243K at any one time, compared to 15.4M on average on TV — And 48 million watched it on regular TV. — Kurt Wagner / Recode — More than two million people watched Thursday night's football game between …
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Dan Gillmor / The Atlantic:
How journalists could fight back in politicians' war on truth: tape delay debates to mute lies and add commentary, kick out campaign surrogates who lie on air — NBC News' Matt Lauer's performance as moderator of a recent public forum featuring Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton has led to some modest journalistic soul-searching.
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Daily Dot lays off 30 employees across company — The Daily Dot laid off 30 people — about 40 percent of its total staff — on Friday, POLITICO has learned. — The cuts were across the board, affecting everyone from upper management and the business side to the newsroom and art department.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Now-closed Mode Media, known for innovation with its ad network and which raised $230M+, faced rising competition as programmatic ads replaced blog networks — With its sudden shutdown Thursday, Mode Media provided another reminder that even for a onetime web stalwart, nothing is certain in the digital world.
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