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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Graydon Carter offered to sit out today's meeting with Trump so the president-elect wouldn't feel uncomfortable, but Anna Wintour wanted Carter to be there — Graydon Carter, the Vanity Fair editor in chief who's skewered Trump for decades, told POLITICO he volunteered to sit out today's 10 …
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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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Leonid Bershidsky / Bloomberg:
Medium may find there are few workable ideas to provide enough revenue to reward quality content — Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, spent five years building Medium into one of the slickest publishing platforms on the web. Yet he found himself in traditional-publishing purgatory on Wednesday …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Trump remains opposed to AT&T-Time Warner merger — Donald Trump remains opposed to the megamerger between AT&T Inc. and Time Warner Inc. because he believes it would concentrate too much power in the media industry, according to people close to the president-elect …
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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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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
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Maximillian Potter / Esquire:
Profile of A.J. Daulerio on his tumultuous career even before the Gawker trial, his history of substance abuse, and a memory of being molested as a boy — “I've been thinking a lot about a photo of me from the trial that ran in The New York Times," A. J. Daulerio tells me one Sunday this past September.
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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Internet Archive launches Trump Archive, a searchable repository of Donald Trump TV appearances, with 520+ hours of video from 2009 until now — The Internet Archive has launched an online repository designed to host all public comments made by Donald Trump in recent years, including speeches, debates, interviews, and news broadcasts.
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Roy Greenslade is ending his daily media blog for The Guardian at the end of the month, ten and a half years after it was launched — Roy Greenslade is stop writing his daily media blog for The Guardian at the end of this month ten and a half years after it was launched.
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David W. Chen / New York Times:
State of New Jersey media coverage: Star-Ledger newsroom down nearly 50%, deep cuts at The Record, little to no dedicated staffing from NYT or WSJ — TRENTON — When New Jersey lawmakers blocked a vote last month on a bill backed by Gov. Chris Christie that would have ended the requirement …
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Linda Ge / The Wrap:
Viacom names Sarah Levy to new role of COO of global entertainment group, overseeing operations and strategy for MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, Spike, CMT, and more — Viacom has named Sarah Levy Chief Operating Officer of its global entertainment group, the company announced Thursday.
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Conan O'Brien's show will remain daily, but may evolve over time with O'Brien's input, says TBS president Kevin Reilly — “He's going to continue to have a daily relationship with an audience. I don't know whether that will be on a number of different services, including TBS.
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Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Univision's Fusion and The Root will merge into Gizmodo Media Group, adopting Kinja publishing platform and moving to GMG's Flatiron headquarters this month — Once the buzziest of new media properties, Fusion now adjusts to an unexpected reinvention. — Fusion logo.
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