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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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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump answers questions on the record with New York Times staffers, striking a conciliatory tone despite what he called previous “rough” coverage — President-elect Donald Trump continued his media grievances tour on Tuesday, visiting the New York Times for both an off-the-record chat …
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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 — On Twitter Tuesday morning, President-elect Donald J. Trump was the media-bashing firebrand many of his supporters adore …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
TV journalists erred in talking with Trump off the record, becoming props in political theater; The New York Times was right to get an on-the-record session — On Monday, some of the biggest names in TV news trooped into Trump Tower for an off-the-record meeting with the president-elect.
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
The Financial Times is in talks to buy companies that strengthen its digital subscription business and bolster its data analytics, one year after Nikkei deal
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Trump's off-the-record meeting with top network executives and anchors comes amid serious concerns over the press' access to the incoming administration
Trump's off-the-record meeting with top network executives and anchors comes amid serious concerns over the press' access to the incoming administration
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Politico national editor Michael Hirsh resigns after posting addresses of white nationalist Richard Spencer on Facebook — Michael Hirsh, national editor of Politico Magazine, resigned Tuesday after posting the address of White nationalist Richard Spencer online and urging people to “exercise your rights as decent Americans.”
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Sources: Facebook has quietly built a tool to enable monitoring and suppression of posts based on location, to get back into China; Zuckerberg defended effort — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, has cultivated relationships with China's leaders, including President Xi Jinping.
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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
AppNexus, second to Google in the automated ad serving market, bans Breitbart News from using its network, citing several violations of its hate speech policy — AppNexus takes a stand as bigger rivals, Google and Facebook, face scrutiny over their handling of ‘fake news’
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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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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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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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McKenzie Funk / New York Times:
How Cambridge Analytica built psychological profiles of Facebook users with personality quizzes and consumer data, and then targeted voters with Trump ads — The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz — What you do online can help elect a president. — INSIDER PODCAST — Good, Bad and Mad: Andrew Rosenthal on the News
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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Encrypted messaging app Telegram launches Telegraph, a long-form publishing tool similar to Medium and Quip; no account is needed to publish posts — Telegram is branching beyond being a messaging app into something more well-rounded. The company on Tuesday launched Telegraph …
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