Mediagazer: President Obama scolds media for its focus on hacked emails from Democratic Party officials during the campaign, obscuring other issues (Madeline Conway/Politico)

4:40 PM ET, December 17, 2016

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Madeline Conway / Politico:

President Obama scolds media for its focus on hacked emails from Democratic Party officials during the campaign, obscuring other issues — President Barack Obama on Friday chided the news media for its focus on hacked emails from Democratic Party officials during the presidential campaign, calling the coverage “an obsession.”

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

The NYT defends its decision to cover hacked Democratic emails, even if it helped Russia, because the emails had news value independent of the hackers' motives — Managing editor Joseph Kahn says they primarily judge the news value of documents in the public sphere “independent of the motive of the leakers.”

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Louis Nelson / Politico:

RNC chief strategist Sean Spicer says Trump won't ban news outlets from White House briefing room but will consider altering format of the daily press briefing — A likely candidate to land a top communications job in President-elect Donald Trump's White House said Thursday …

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Sumner Redstone to leave Viacom board in February, but he will attend meetings in nonvoting role, keep control of his media empire through National Amusements — The ailing 93-year old media mogul Sumner M. Redstone will step down from the board of Viacom in February, the company announced Friday …

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Ken Doctor / Politico:

Parsely report: about 66% of weekend news reading is now done on smartphones and tablets, while only 55% of overall usage is on mobile — What it means that two thirds of weekend news consumption happens on a mobile device — Consider it one more step in the evolution of the desktop computer into an archival paperweight.

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Vanity Fair added 13K subscriptions in 24 hours after Trump's Thursday tweet, the highest number of subscriptions ever sold in a single day at Condé Nast — Vanity Fair is the latest news organization to profit from President-elect Donald Trump's Twitter ire.

David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:

The broader issue driving paranoia over fake news is the realization among mainstream media that they no longer hold the sole power to shape the news agenda — In an 1807 letter to John Norvell, a young go-getter who had asked how to best run a newspaper, Thomas Jefferson penned what today …

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Memo: New York Times will vacate at least 8 floors of its building and seek rental income, temporarily moving some staffers including print services amid re-org — The New York Times will vacate eight floors of its midtown headquarters in a bid to make some money and improve its efficiency.

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