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Financial Times:
Sources: Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner approached Aryeh Bourkoff, founder of investment bank LionTree, about setting up a Trump TV network post-election — Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has informally approached one of the media industry's top dealmakers about the prospect …
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Chris Pomorski / Tablet Magazine:
Profile of Jared Kushner, real-estate scion, owner of The New York Observer, and Donald Trump's son-in-law, adviser, and surrogate — In New York City, the second week of August 2006 was warm and mostly rainless, hospitable to the sort of al fresco promenades that often accompany film premieres.
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Columbia Journalism Review:
Center for Public Integrity: journalists, including The New Yorker's TV critic Emily Nussbaum, have donated $382K to Clinton's campaign, $14K to Trump's — Hillary Clinton speaks with supporters at a campaign rally at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Tyler Kingkade / BuzzFeed:
Interview with UVA dean about school's stance on sexual assault to be allowed in Rolling Stone libel case as the magazine tries to prove it acted without malice — As the defamation suit over Rolling Stone's botched campus rape article goes to trial, the magazine wants to show …
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Rolling Stone deleted an article about the NBA and domestic violence on Friday, after the NBA disputed a number of assertions in the piece — Rolling Stone quietly removed an online article about the NBA and domestic violence on Friday, two days after it was published, POLITICO has learned.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Beyond the election, newsrooms need to consider why so many on the right don't trust them — It sure does get exhausting working for the global corporate media conspiracy. — The hours are horrible (my kingdom for a weekend off). You never know what the puppet masters are going to order up next.
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RT:
RT's UK bank accounts blocked, says EIC Margarita Simonyan; Russian Foreign Minister accuses UK of abandoning commitment to protect freedom of speech — The UK bank servicing RT has given notice that it will close the broadcaster's accounts, without explanation.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Billy Bush's Departure From ‘Today’ Is Now Official — As of Monday, Billy Bush is no longer with NBC's “Today” show, the program's supervising executive said in a note to staffers. — “Billy Bush will be leaving the Today show's 9 a.m. hour, effective today,” said Noah Oppenheim …
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Sam Levin / Guardian:
Judge rejects riot charges for journalist Amy Goodman after oil pipeline protest — Authorities had issued a warrant for her arrest after Democracy Now! host filmed guards for the Dakota access pipeline using dogs and pepper spray on protesters — A North Dakota judge rejected prosecutors' …
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Fox News anchor Shep Smith discusses the network's post-Ailes future and the charges of sexual harassment brought against his former boss — “The long look of history is going to be necessary, and I don't think it will reflect well on this time," Smith says, “or on the voters' ability …
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David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
If Vice News Tonight's stylized interpretation of the news draws more interest to current events, it will be a worthwhile addition to the media landscape — VICE News Tonight correspondent Arielle Duhaime-Ross reporting from Nunavut, Canada for an upcoming segment on VICE News Tonight on HBO.
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Jeremy Barr / Ad Age:
Mashable appoints its first executive editor, former Vocativ Editor-in-Chief and Gawker editor Jessica Coen — Mashable, the 11-year-old publisher of news and entertainment content, has hired Jessica Coen as executive editor, it was announced Monday morning.
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Yahoo:
Obama decries “wild wild west of information flow” in media, calls for reliable curation, but says “the answer is obviously not censorship” — Pittsburgh (AFP) - President Barack Obama on Thursday decried America's “wild, wild west” media environment …
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