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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Facebook hires Campbell Brown, ex-NBC News reporter and CNN prime-time host, to lead News Partnerships team, says she won't be involved in content decisions — Facebook is turning to a former television news journalist to help smooth over its strained ties to the news media …
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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
US intelligence report: Russia Today played a key role in the Putin-ordered campaign to undermine the US election, collaborating with WikiLeaks — Russia's state-sponsored news agency Russia Today “has actively collaborated with” WikiLeaks, the organization that published documents …
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Bloomberg:
SEC filing: AT&T, Time Warner say they may not need FCC approval for merger; source says Time Warner has been trying to transfer or sell broadcast licenses — In filing, companies say they can avoid FCC license review — Proposed deal has drawn criticism from President-elect Trump
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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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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 Donald Trump for decades, told POLITICO he volunteered to sit …
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Sources: in meeting with Condé Nast editors, Trump fielded sharp questions on race, hate crimes, Russia, Putin, and other issues, but the talk remained civil — Donald Trump and the top editors of Condé Nast's magazines talked about everything from abortion to Russia in a meeting …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with New York magazine CEO Pamela Wasserstein on newly launched membership program, e-commerce initiatives, what's coming in 2017, and more — “We're making sure that we're appropriately marketing directly to consumers and really selling subscriptions at full price."
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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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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.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
In its first meeting with the WHCA, Trump's team says it will allow a full press pool and will continue to allow the media to fly on Air Force One — The Trump administration will respect the use of a protective press pool and will continue to allow the media to fly with the President on Air Force One …
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The New York Times launches Outthink Hidden, its first project inside its new augmented reality app, T Brand Studio AR, with IBM as sponsor — Publishers have been jumping on the virtual reality and 360-video bandwagon, but have been slower to harness its cousin, augmented reality.
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