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10:45 AM ET, January 4, 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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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Sources: Kelly will be replaced by a pro-Trump conservative, and Rupert Murdoch may lobby Trump to place conditions on AT&T-Time Warner merger  —  Megyn Kelly's decision to jump from Fox News to NBC resolves one of the last unanswered questions of the Roger Ailes scandal: Would she stay or would she go when her contract ended?
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Source: Kelly left because NBC News offered her creative freedom; the network likely did not exceed Fox News' $20M offer  —  “Everyone else came to her with an idea of what they wanted,” a person close to Kelly says.  “NBC really wanted to hear what she wanted to do, and then they delivered it.”
Discussion: Mediaite and TheBlaze
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Interview with Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, on Trump's phone-in TV interviews, emphasis on visuals, lack of laughter, and more  —  The ‘Meet the Press’ host opens up about the surprising thing he shares with the president-elect.  —  Chuck Todd has interviewed Donald Trump many times …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway says Trump will hold a press conference on January 11, 160+ days after his last one in July  —  Press secretary Josh Earnest's advice for his successor Sean Spicer  —  Presidents-elect normally answer questions at a press conference a few days after the election.
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
Discussion: Vanity Fair and @davidjones2898
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 …
Alexandra Schwartz / New Yorker:
Simon & Schuster is a publishing conglomerate, so boycotting it over Yiannopoulos means avoiding books like Timothy B. Tyson's book about Emmett Till  —  On Thursday, the Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the alt-right impresario Milo Yiannopoulos will publish a book with Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
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Charlotte Eyre / The Bookseller:
Simon & Schuster UK will not join its US counterpart in publishing Breitbart journalist Milo Yiannopoulos' book
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 …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough defends his Trump schmoozing as the “Washington way”, but newspeople must maintain professional distance from subjects  —  It started, as so many things do these days, with a tweet.  —  The New York Times political reporter Maggie Haberman …
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
Gary Vaynerchuk buying women's lifestyle publisher PureWow, will integrate it with his digital marketing agency; source says PureWow's 2016 revenue was ~$20M  —  Serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk is buying PureWow, a women's lifestyle media company, in the latest sign of the convergence of publishers and digital advertisers.
 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

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