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Alex Weprin / Politico:
Tucker Carlson will succeed Megyn Kelly in 9PM slot on Fox, with Martha MacCallum, co-anchor of America's Newsroom, succeeding Carlson at 7PM — Fox News has named Tucker Carlson the new host of its 9 p.m. program, succeeding Megyn Kelly, who is departing the cable news channel for NBC.
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Tucker Carlson's ascension to prime time is another sign that Rupert Murdoch is pushing Fox News in a more pro-Trump direction — Rupert Murdoch moved swiftly and unexpectedly to fill the void opened up by Megyn Kelly's departure for NBC. Thursday morning, Fox News announced Tucker Carlson is taking over Kelly's 9 p.m. slot.
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Sources: Trump will meet with Condé Nast editorial leaders, including Anna Wintour and Graydon Carter, a notorious critic of the president-elect, on Friday — The president-elect will sit down with the Vanity Fair editor, who famously called him a ‘short-fingered vulgarian.’
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At least five publishing partners say they had no advance notice Medium would stop selling its native ad unit “Promoted Stories” — On Wednesday, Medium co-founder Evan Williams announced in a blog post that the publishing platform would abandon its strategy to sell native advertising …
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M.G. Siegler / Medium:
Medium strayed toward the easy but broken legacy publishing model, and is now refocusing on exploring the correct model for the future
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Ev Williams / Medium:
Medium says it's laying off 50 employees, about a third of its staff, and closing its NY and DC offices, as it refocuses on a “less proven” means to pay writers
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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Amid a competitive late night TV environment, Conan O'Brien's show will move to a weekly format on TBS, says Turner CEO John Martin — Get ready to see less of Conan O'Brien. — TBS is planning to retool late-night talk show “Conan” to a weekly format instead of a nightly one, Turner CEO John Martin told TheWrap.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Techdirt founder Mike Masnick faces $15M libel suit over articles that cast doubt on Shiva Ayyadurai's claim to have invented e-mail — This is the latest case from attorney Charles Harder, who previously represented Hulk Hogan against Gawker. — Techdirt founder Mike Masnick will be going toe …
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Chicago Sun Times:
Sean Spicer says Trump's tweets are the first thing he checks every morning because they drive the news cycle — Sign-Up for our News & Politics Newsletter — Sean Spicer, a Republican strategist tapped to be President-elect Donald Trump's press secretary, confirmed a widely held notion …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Former Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren to join MSNBC with a news and analysis show at 6PM, called For the Record, starting January 9 — Greta Van Susteren is joining MSNBC, taking over the channel's 6 p.m. time slot with a new show called “For the Record,” the network announced Thursday.
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Shari Weiss / Gossip Cop:
Gossip Cop debunked 2,404 stories in 2016, a 60% rise over the previous year; the worst offender was National Enquirer, which was corrected 335 times — Gossip Cop busted 2,404 stories in 2016. That's nearly a 60 percent increase over 2015, when we busted 1,504 stories.
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
BuzzFeed's customizable Tasty recipe book, printed on demand, sells more than 100K copies in less than two months, with sales ranging between $2.4M and $3.9M — ‘Tasty’ recipe book sells more than 100,000 copies in 2 months — 170 million online views for video on how to make sliders
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Launched in December, Time Inc.'s UK TV division aims to produce 8 hours of content in 2017 centered around current affairs, infotainment, and real-life stories — Time Inc. is setting its sights on TV in the U.K. — The publisher's U.K. TV division, which launched in December …
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Sources: details from Mark Zuckerberg's candid weekly Q&A sessions almost never leak because staffers fear reprisal, such as firings and peer pressure — The CEO opens up to 16,000 employees once a week. Why don't you hear more about it? — On a Friday afternoon in July 2015 …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast Buys Video-Metadata Startup Watchwith — Comcast has acquired Watchwith, a startup that has built a “deep metadata” video platform that tracks info down to the scene level. — Terms of the deal, which closed last month, were not disclosed. San Francisco-based Watchwith had raised …
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