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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?

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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.”

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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.

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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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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 …

Discussion: @addiply, @liquidnewsroom, @digiday and @jessdaviesmk

Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:

Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer received a tour and briefing from Obama's press staff, had an hours-long meeting with Josh Earnest, Jen Psaki — Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer spent Tuesday afternoon getting a tour and a briefing from President Barack Obama's press staff …

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Digital ads company CPXi has acquired the last of Spin Media's sites, including Celebuzz, The Frisky and The Superficial, from MC Partners — CPXi, a digital ad company headed by Michael Seiman, said it is buying the last of SpinMedia's sites, including Celebuzz, The Frisky and The Superficial from MC Partners.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, @hughhewitt, @senfrankniceley, CNNMoney and Quartz

Bloomberg:

Analyst: SoundCloud Go, the service's premium tier, has fewer than 250K subscribers, as the company struggles to find a business model — After years of trading physical dollars for digital dimes, the music industry is finally seeing a payoff. Subscriptions to streaming music services jumped …

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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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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 …

Discussion: @mickimaynard, @clarajeffery, @oliverdarcy, Vanity Fair, CNNMoney and Washington Post

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