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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
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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@jackshafer, @ddale8, Common Dreams, @snolen, @sarahmccammon, The Week, @mayadirado, @michaelkruse, @doristruong, @_aaronneil, @terri_rupar, @fahrenthold, @radiofreegeorgy, @ahofschneider, @stephenrodrick, @ron_fournier, @postbaron, @cfhorgan, @ztracer, @markberman, @bterris, @markberman, @lkherman, @beer__wolf, @evanasmith, @fahrenthold, @pjxturner, @jackshafer, NPR and New York Magazine
Alessandro Sabatelli / The Twitter Blog:
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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Periscope, Multichannel News, SocialTimes, VentureBeat, The Verge, Business Insider, ValueWalk, BetaNews, Agence France-Presse, Softpedia News, BGR, AppleInsider, Mashable, AppAdvice.com Latest, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, Recode, 9to5Mac, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Variety, @joshrthompson, Android Police and Engadget
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
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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@mediashiftorg, @catecoleman, @peterhimler, @davewiner, @jayfranzone, @eileenmcarey, @fwd, @johnpaczkowski, @kantrowitz and Editor & Publisher
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
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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@juddlegum, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Real Stories, @max_read, @stevekovach, The Verge, @bafeldman, @nkulw, @ryanlcooper, @janinegibson, @cwarzel, @jamesrbuk, @sarahw, @drudge_report, Politico, New York Magazine and The Week
Louis Nelson / Politico:
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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@hadas_gold, @nolandmccaskill, @heathsmusings, @politico, The Week and Law News
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Sabrina Siddiqui / The Guardian:
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.
Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
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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@nytimesworld, @dangillmor, @mrbaopanrui and @theasianist
Samantha Masunaga / Los Angeles Times:
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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@allisonprang and @latimes
Patrick Coffee / Adweek:
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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AgencySpy, New York Times, Japan Times, Business Insider, Ad Age, Wall Street Journal and Top Digital Journal News
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
Kremlin-backed media and US far-right sites have adopted the “fake news” term to discredit reports of Aleppo bombings — It's been less than a week since Syrian Prime Minister Bashar al-Assad thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for helping “liberate Aleppo.”
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Real Stories, The Atlantic, @harrysiegel, @cjcmichel, @oneunderscore__, @oneunderscore__, @mleccese, @desideriodc, @oneunderscore__, @dabeard and WGBH News
George Slefo / Ad Age:
IAB report: digital ad revenue climbed 20% year over year to $17.6B in Q3 — Digital advertising is on a relentless path toward gobbling up more ad dollars, with marketers spending a record-breaking $17.6 billion on digital in the third quarter of 2016. That represents a 20% year-over-year increase …
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Radio & Television …, Broadcasting & Cable, @aexm, @sarahcuda, @vettiguy, MediaPost, Business Wire and Adweek
David Bauder / Associated Press:
After doing an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca was harassed on Twitter and received a rape threat on Christmas day — NEW YORK (AP) — A woman involved in a heated debate with Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson over Ivanka Trump said Tuesday she's received thousands …
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Washington Post and @nanettehb