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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Sources: Megyn Kelly is leaving Fox News for a new role at NBC, where she will host a daytime news and debate program and anchor a Sunday night news show — Megyn Kelly, who arrived at Fox News 12 years ago as a television news neophyte but rose to become one of its two biggest stars …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson is named as a columnist for Time magazine's newsletter, Motto; she will focus on women and empowerment — Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson has been tapped as a columnist for Time magazine's online Motto newsletter. She will focus on women and empowerment issues.
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Joe Scarborough says the feigned outrage over his NYE meeting with Trump stems from a press corps disoriented by the election of a man they openly despise — Facts are stubborn things. Unfortunately in the age of Twitter journalism, too many reporters find such details to be both onerous and optional.
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Q&A with Joe Scarborough, who likens his rapport with Trump to Fareed Zakaria's with Obama, Ben Bradlee's with JFK, and Walter Lippmann's with LBJ — Joe Scarborough is fed up with his critics. — “I am sick and tired of people misrepresenting me and making snide assumptions …
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Joe Scarborough's defensive tweets aimed at Sopan Deb were exactly the kind of intra-media attack an embattled press doesn't need right now
Joe Scarborough's defensive tweets aimed at Sopan Deb were exactly the kind of intra-media attack an embattled press doesn't need right now
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Charlotte Eyre / The Bookseller:
Simon & Schuster UK will not join its US counterpart in publishing Breitbart journalist Milo Yiannopoulos' book — Simon & Schuster UK will not join its US counterpart in publishing a book by controversial right-wing figure Milo Yiannopoulos. — A spokesperson told The Bookseller …
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK press campaigns against Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act which would force them to sign up to a state-backed press regulator or face heavy libel fees — The Sunday Times has warned that its historic exposure of drugs cheat cyclist Lance Armstrong would never have happened had Section 40 …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish's new AirTV Player lets Sling customers stream over-the-air local channels, a move that required no carriage deals on Dish's part — Dish Network has officially unveiled its plan for bringing local TV channels to its Sling TV over-the-top internet TV service — with no retransmission deals required on its part.
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Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Google's AMP makes mobile pages load faster, but some smaller web publishers worry that they've ceded too much control, especially over how URLs are displayed — SAN FRANCISCO — Last month, Federico Viticci, who runs MacStories, a news site devoted to Apple and its products …
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Stephen Steed / NWAonline:
Arkansas teen Hayden Taylor buys weekly Central Delta Argus-Sun for an undisclosed sum; with no prior journalism experience, he plans to start the paper anew — Journalism books on his to-do list — Hayden Taylor stands outside the office of his new newspaper in downtown Brinkley.
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Kalev Leetaru / Forbes:
How the Washington Post's inaccurate story about a Russian hack spread, with the paper rewriting it rather than issuing a correction, before finally adding one — On Friday the Washington Post sparked a wave of fear when it ran the breathless headline “Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
BuzzFeed News hires ‘FOIA terrorist’ Jason Leopold from Vice News — BuzzFeed's legal team has helped reporters pry more than 70,000 pages of documents from government agencies with FOIA requests. — That number is about to increase in a big way. On Tuesday, BuzzFeed News announced …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Three former White House press officials, including George W. Bush's former Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, express fears for the press under Trump — Three former White House press secretaries sounded various alarms about the president-elect and the possible pitfalls in his relationship …
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