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2:40 PM ET, January 6, 2017

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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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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