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Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold tells the behind-the-scenes story of his year covering Trump, from charitable giving to the Access Hollywood tape — “Arnold and Tim, if you'd come up, we're going to give you a nice, beautiful check," Donald Trump said.
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After years of rejecting the “media company” label, Twitter is hiring Periscope editors, broadcasting news alerts, and airing premium live video — If you're wondering whether Twitter views itself as a media company or not, take a look at its careers page.
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Twitter introduces live 360-degree videos on Periscope and Twitter from select partners — Today, we're introducing a new way to see what's happening on Twitter - through live 360 video. — Starting today, you can check out live, interactive 360 videos from interesting broadcasters and explore what's happening with them.
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Milo Yiannopoulos signs an autobiographical book deal with Threshold Editions, a Simon & Schuster imprint; sources say the advance is $250K — “They said banning me from Twitter would finish me off. Just as I predicted, the opposite has happened," says Yiannopoulos.
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Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer says “business as usual is over” as social media outreach will take a larger role alongside news conferences — ‘Business as usual is over,’ the incoming White House press secretary says. — President-elect Donald Trump owes …
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With a January 1 deadline, Comcast's NBCUniversal and Charter hit a standoff in cable TV carriage deal talks — NBCUniversal and Charter Communications are in a negotiation standoff that could see millions of customers lose access to NBCU-owned channels beginning Jan. 1.
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Amos Yee, the Singapore teen convicted of “wounding religious feelings” with YouTube videos, flees to US and seeks asylum — Americans who identify with President-elect Donald J. Trump's message of anti-political correctness may have a new, unlikely ally: a Singaporean teenager …
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A Muslim reporter recounts the emotional toll of covering the presidential campaign, during which an interviewee told her Muslims should be exterminated — “We should exterminate them.” — The words rolled off the voter's tongue as though he was merely discussing a pest invasion in his home.


Jim Cramer's TheStreet could be delisted from the Nasdaq Global Market for its low stock price; the company has until June to turn things around — Jim Cramer, left, host of “Mad Money” on CNBC and co-founder of TheStreet Inc., talks with Jon Stewart during an appearance on Comedy Central's “The Daily Show” in 2009.
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Tronc Chairman Michael Ferro increases stake in company to nearly 25%, the maximum he can own, as he buys 2.5M more shares for $37.5M — Tronc Chairman Michael Ferro speaks during the “Titans at the Table” Bloomberg Television program in Chicago on April 18, 2012.


CEO of Dentsu, Japan's largest ad agency, says he will resign after government investigation into its culture of overwork — Dentsu chief executive officer Tadashi Ishii announced today that he will resign next month after leading the network for more than five years.
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Despite efforts, the diversity of Wikipedia's overwhelmingly white and male editorial pool has been slow to improve — Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi is a 53-year-old British-Nigerian human-rights activist and, it's fair to say, a person of some note. She's co-founder of the African Women's Development Fund …
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