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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 …
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Washington Post, Media Nation and Fortune
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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Mediaite, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, FishbowlNY, Fortune, FishbowlDC and New York Magazine
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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Daily Mail, @defencechris, The Guardian and The Sun
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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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@stevekovach, @bafeldman, @loudmouthjulia, @timothypmurphy and @pkedrosky
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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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
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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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@jimvandehei, @dylanbyers and @hadas_gold
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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Home Media Magazine, TechCrunch and Recode
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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.
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@mccarthyryanj, @ali_gharib, @buzzfeedben, @jasonleopold, @mattdpearce and @schoofsfeed
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 …
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FishbowlNY, FishbowlDC, @bankoff, @agolis, @jessicavalenti, @hamiltonnolan, @ezraklein and @redsteeze
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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