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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.”
Politico:
Jared Kushner says Trump campaign struck deal with Sinclair to give TV chain more access in exchange for interviews airing at all affiliates without commentary — Donald Trump's campaign struck a deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group during the campaign to try and secure better media coverage …
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Nielsen:
Nielsen Scarborough: more than 169M US adults read a newspaper a month, via print, web, or mobile; 81% engage with print product, and 51% read print exclusively — Ever hear the phrase “print is dead”? Well if you check with almost 170 million Americans, they'd tell you that nothing could be farther from the truth.
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Facebook underreported iPhone traffic to Instant Articles tracked by comScore from Sept. 30 to Nov. 30; report says some publishers' numbers affected by 10-20% — Facebook announced on Friday that it had made another measurement error, this time affecting publishers that use its Instant Articles content platform.
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Miles Socha is named the new editor in chief of Women's Wear Daily; he succeeds Edward Nardoza, who is retiring after 25 years — Penske Media Corporation has named Miles Socha editor in chief of WWD. Socha most recently served as executive editor of WWD Europe.
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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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Emily Steel / New York Times:
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.
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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.
Aaron Souppouris / Engadget:
BAMTech, owned by MLB and Disney, buys rights to stream League of Legends competitions through 2023, reportedly in a $300M+ deal — BAMTech, the Major League Baseball- and Disney-owned streaming tech company, has signed a deal with Riot Games for the rights to League of Legends tournaments.
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