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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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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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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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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
Simon & Schuster UK will not join its US counterpart in publishing Breitbart journalist Milo Yiannopoulos' book
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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 is 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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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 …
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