Mediagazer: MSNBC's Joe Scarborough defends his Trump schmoozing as the “Washington way”, but newspeople must maintain professional distance from subjects (Margaret Sullivan/Washington Post)

7:10 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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NBC News:

NBC News confirms that Megyn Kelly is joining the network — 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 …

Peter Kafka / Recode:

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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.

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Glenn Thrush / Politico:

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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

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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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Alexandra Schwartz / New Yorker:

Simon & Schuster is a publishing conglomerate; 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

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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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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 …

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Jessica Davies / Digiday:

Guardian CRO Hamish Nicklin, ex-Google staffer and a critic of programmatic ads, works to find a better ad model after Guardian's 2016 pre-tax loss of $87M — Back in the late noughties, Hamish Nicklin took up boxing. He was drawn to the sweet science as a fun way to keep fit …

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Malcolm Gladwell / New Yorker:

Comparing Daniel Ellsberg, a Washington insider turned leaker, with Edward Snowden, a radicalized hacker — From their backgrounds to their motivations, the two men have some striking differences. — In the summer of 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara commissioned a group …

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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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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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