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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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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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@tabletmag and @toddgitlin


Trump goes beyond claiming media bias to instead blame media for a “rigged” election, adopting the Breitbartian view of institutional conspiracy — Republicans have complained about media bias for decades. But Donald Trump, whose attacks on the press are escalating …
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New York Times, Business Insider, @realdonaldtrump, @brianstelter, Washington Post, @olivianuzzi, Politico, bookforum.com, The Week, @sophia_mjones, @hels, @poniewozik, @jmartnyt, Fortune, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, @ggreenwald, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Business Insider, Washington Post, Mediaite, New York Times and Slate
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Beyond the election, newsrooms need to consider why so many on the right don't trust them
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@davidsirota, @davidsirota, @cindyolson and @warrenleighttv


Arizona Republic responds to those who harassed its staff and issued death threats after newspaper endorsed Clinton — What is the correct response to these threats? Today, I offer you a few. — As someone who has spent a career in the business of words, it's unusual to find myself speechless.


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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Fortune, Talking Points Memo and Mashable
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UK Treasury denies any involvement in NatWest Bank decision to shut down RT's bank accounts — British government denies involvment as NatWest closes accounts of Moscow's main instrument of propaganda in English-speaking world — Russia has angrily accused Britain of trampling on freedom …
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Business Insider

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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TechCrunch, Recode, The White House, @talknerdytome72, @baekdal, @jweb and @marklevinshow


Google AMP accused of stealing publishers traffic, by directing search traffic to cached snapshots of sites at Google-hosted URLs — I run my blog on WordPress with a custom theme. 6 month ago I've added support for Accelerate Mobile Pages (AMP) in order to provide better user experience for mobile devices.


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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@jessicacoen, Thanks:@steverubel


Chairwoman Sandra Mims Rowe explains why The Committee to Protect Journalists broke its own rule about getting involved in politics to protest Trump — For decades, Sandra Mims Rowe was a rigorous newspaper editor who demanded deep reporting from the journalists she led.
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Guardian, @jimrutenberg, @timobrien and @sulliview


The Atlantic tells 8.5% of its unique visitors who use ad-blockers to whitelist website, or pay $3.99 a month for ad-free version, starting Monday — The Atlantic would like to figure out a way to make some money off of the 8.5% of unique visitors to the magazine's website who use an ad-blocker.
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FishbowlNY, @nnatic and Wall Street Journal


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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Mediaite, The Wrap, Talking Points Memo, People.com and Joe.My.God.