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Erin McClam / CNNMoney:
Trump initially backed out of meeting with New York Times editors and reporters on Tuesday via a series of tweets, claiming “terms and conditions” were changed — President-elect Donald Trump backed out of a meeting he had called with The New York Times on Tuesday.
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Reuters:
Donald Trump will meet with New York Times journalists today, his spokesperson Hope Hicks told reporters — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will meet with journalists from The New York Times today, a spokeswoman said hours after his posts on Twitter canceling the meeting.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sources: Reince Priebus urged Trump to cancel NYT meeting in case he faced questions he couldn't answer, incorrectly told him NYT had changed terms of meeting — A planned meeting on Tuesday between President-elect Donald J. Trump and The New York Times that appeared to have fallen through …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
New York Times says Trump team requested to change the partly off-the-record meeting to be fully off-the-record, which it refused — The paper says his team tried changing ground rules to only participate off-the-record. — NEW YORK President-elect Donald Trump canceled a meeting …
New York Times:
Sources: Trump used his private meeting with high-profile TV figures to berate them for dishonesty and shortsightedness, criticizing some in the room by name — It had all the trappings of a high-level rapprochement: President-elect Donald J. Trump, now the nation's press critic in chief …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Source: During Monday's meeting with TV execs and anchors, Donald Trump complained that NBC used unflattering photographs of him with multiple chins — Earlier Monday at Trump Tower in New York City, President-elect Donald Trump, top aides and advisers including Kellyanne Conway …
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Tamerra Griffin / BuzzFeed:
Draft Washington Post column included a quote from Trump about being sexually attracted to his then 13-year-old daughter; the quote was later removed — The line appeared in a draft of Richard Cohen's syndicated column, but vanished prior to publication. — Washington Post columnist …
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Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
Trump and other billionaires have laid the groundwork for using libel laws and the extortionate legal fees they come with to gag the press — A small group of superrich Americans — the president-elect among them — has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented legal assault on the media.
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Steven Bertoni / Forbes:
Silicon Valley insiders Peter Thiel and ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt say The Observer's owner Jared Kushner effectively ran Trump's campaign — It's been one week since Donald Trump pulled off the biggest upset in modern political history, and his headquarters at Trump Tower in New York City is a 58-story, onyx-glassed lightning rod.
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Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC:
WSJ sources: Amazon has held talks with NBA, MLB, and NFL to stream live sports, and has proposed a premium exclusive sports package through Amazon Prime — CNBC's Julia Boorstin on a Wall Street Journal report that Amazon is looking into streaming live sporting events.
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Dow Jones-owned site MarketWatch laid off five editorial staffers on Monday — MarketWatch.com, a financial news site operated by Dow Jones & Co., laid off five staffers on Monday. — The positions cut include one union position and four nonunion positions, according to a representative for IAPE 1096 …
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
How Facebook's fake news problem emerged as it emphasized real-time content, with the debut of its Share button in 2012 and hashtags and Trending in mid-2013 — As Facebook attempted to capture the fast-moving energy of the news cycle from Twitter, and shied away from policing political content …
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