Mediagazer: 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 (Kalev Leetaru/Forbes)

4:00 PM ET, January 3, 2017

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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:

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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NBC News:

NBC News confirms that Megyn Kelly is joining — JANUARY 3, 2017 — Megyn Kelly, one of America's most prominent news anchors, will join NBC News, it was announced today by Andrew Lack, Chairman of the NBCUniversal News Group. — Kelly will become anchor of a new one hour daytime program …

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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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, Media Nation, The Daily Caller and Fortune

Peter Kafka / Recode:

Wired editor Scott Dadich is leaving to start his own company and will be replaced by Nicholas Thompson, digital editor of The New Yorker — New Yorker digital editor Nicholas Thompson will replace him. — Scott Dadich, the top editor at Wired magazine and its digital properties for the last four years …

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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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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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Rachael Jolley / Telegraph:
If another country had a press law like Section 40, Britain would condemn it for persecuting journalists

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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:

Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen hire political insiders Evan Ryan and Tim Berry as EVPs at their news startup, Axios, which begins launching newsletters next week — They'll help lead the platform, which starts launching its newsletters next week. — A few months ago, Evan Ryan had no idea where she would end up in January.

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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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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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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Dish's AirTV set-top box provides 4K streaming for Sling TV, Netflix, and YouTube, includes an over-the-air antenna for live TV

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Andrew Golis / Vox:

Laura McGann becomes Vox's first editorial director, while Lauren Williams is promoted to executive editor, as the site prepares to cover the Trump presidency — How Vox is changing to cover Trump and a new era of policy and politics. — Programming note from Vox general manager Andrew Golis …

Discussion: FishbowlNY, FishbowlDC, @agolis, @jessicavalenti, @hamiltonnolan, @ezraklein, @bankoff and @redsteeze

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

BuzzFeed News hires ‘FOIA terrorist’ Jason Leopold from Vice News and has set aside legal resources to help him pursue FOIA litigation — BuzzFeed's legal team has helped reporters pry more than 70,000 pages of documents from government agencies with FOIA requests.

Discussion: @mccarthyryanj, @ali_gharib, @mattdpearce, @buzzfeedben, @schoofsfeed and @jasonleopold

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Amazon partners with three Chinese manufacturers to launch Amazon Fire-powered 4K TVs, to be sold online and in select retail stores later this year — Amazon is now making its own TV — sort of, anyway: The e-commerce giant has teamed up with Seiki, Westinghouse and Element Electronics …

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Brian Flood / The Wrap:

Tribune Media authorizes $500M dividend for stockholders and warrant holders — Tribune Media Company announced a special dividend of approximately $500 million that will be paid from existing cash on Tuesday. — The company's board of directors authorized and declared a special cash dividend …

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.

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