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8:50 AM ET, January 6, 2017

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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.’
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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Politico:
At least five publishing partners say they had no advance notice Medium would stop selling its native ad unit “Promoted Stories”
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.
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
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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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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
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure
 
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