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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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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.
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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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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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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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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
In memo, Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory outlines 10 changes coming to the paper, including a beat structure overhaul, the debut of a print-focused desk, more — Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory on Wednesday afternoon detailed the finer points of a massive reorganization aimed at reinventing the newspaper for the digital age.
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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@poynter, @hadas_gold, @politico, @jayrosen_nyu and The Huffington Post
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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