Mediagazer: Vanity Fair's The Hive teams up with Cheddar and Condé Nast for a live weekly half-hour series on media, tech, politics, business, launching on February 19 (Alexandra Steigrad/WWD)

2:50 AM ET, January 7, 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 …

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 …

Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:

Vanity Fair's The Hive teams up with Cheddar and Condé Nast for a live weekly half-hour series on media, tech, politics, business, launching on February 19 — Vanity Fair's The Hive will debut a weekly show with Cheddar on media, technology, politics and business. — A screen shot of Cheddar's live broadcast.

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 …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Variety and @mlcalderone

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 …

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

Discussion: Thomson IR, Consumerist, The Hill, Reuters, Fierce Cable, Washington Post, Ars Technica and Variety

Bloomberg:
Sources: Trump remains opposed to AT&T-Time Warner merger

Discussion: Recode, Forbes, Awful Announcing, @matt_townsend, @tsgiles, Reynolds Center, @maggienyt and @gerryfsmith

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."

Discussion: Peter Krasilovsky's Insights …

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 …

Discussion: @sulliview, @clarajeffery, @sbichao, @mtracey, @stevekopack, @davidwchen, @businessofnews, @alecmacgillis, @propublica, @jayrosen_nyu and @mlcalderone

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.

Discussion: @michaelmossc, @digiday and @niemanreports

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 …

Discussion: @poynter, @hadas_gold, @politico, @jayrosen_nyu and The Huffington Post

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.

Discussion: @stigabell, The Guardian, @index_magazine, @campbellclaret, Media Law Prof Blog, @richardkendall, @sussex_alumni, @kevin_maguire, @mhairimacfa, @ptr_yeung, @alexvlf and @mediaguardian

Diana Marszalek / Broadcasting & Cable:

Hearst agrees to buy majority stake in TV producer and distributor Litton Entertainment, which produces more than 800 hours of programming each year — The deal is expected to close Feb. 1 — Hearst will become the majority owner of TV producer and distributor Litton Entertainment under a deal announced Friday.

Discussion: Variety, TVSpy and FishbowlNY

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

The Atlantic is printing 40K more copies of its January/February issue, with Ta-Nehisi Coats' cover story My President Was Black, due to high sales — The Atlantic's January/February issue—featuring the fantastic cover story My President Was Black, by Ta-Nehisi Coats—was so good, it's getting a second run.

Discussion: Washington Post, @erikwemple and @gerryfsmith

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.