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Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Texas congressman Randy Weber says CNN reporter Jim Acosta was “disrespectful” to Trump during press briefing and “should be fired” — The day after Donald Trump refused to take a question from CNN reporter Jim Acosta at a press conference, calling the network …
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump filled first press conference in seven months with paid staffers who cheered in response to PEOTUS blasting media — The president-elect packs his news conference with paid aides ready to jeer reporters. — NEW YORK — When Donald Trump gathered the press at Trump Tower 20 months ago …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
WSJ reporter Monica Langley is joining Salesforce as an executive; she has written about the company, including a long profile of its CEO last year — Monica Langley, the Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote lengthy profiles of President-Elect Donald J. Trump and sometimes traveled with him, is leaving the newspaper.
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Seth Kelley / Variety:
Donald Trump calls BuzzFeed “a failing piece of garbage” and refuses to take a question from CNN reporter Jim Acosta, telling him: “You are fake news”
Donald Trump calls BuzzFeed “a failing piece of garbage” and refuses to take a question from CNN reporter Jim Acosta, telling him: “You are fake news”
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CNN:
Review of Monica Crowley's Columbia University Ph.D. dissertation finds thousands of plagiarized words from sources including Kissinger, Eric Larson, and the AP — By Andrew Kaczynski, Chris Massie, and Nathan McDermott, design by Tal Yellin — Conservative commentator Monica Crowley …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple planning push into original TV shows and movies for Apple Music subscribers, hopes to share viewer metrics and demographic data with producers — Apple is planning to build a significant new business in original television shows and movies, a move that could make it a bigger player …
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Albert Burneko / The Concourse:
BuzzFeed reporters were right to post a dossier with extraordinary claims about President-elect Trump, passed around for weeks at highest levels of government — As you're likely aware by now, yesterday evening BuzzFeed published a dossier of allegations about Donald Trump …
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Nic Newman / Reuters Institute for the Study …:
Reuters 2017 predictions: automated fact-checking, more innovation with chat bots, big year for audio, and experiments with AR and VR but both will disappoint — This year's key developments will centre on fears about how changing technology is affecting the quality of information and the state of our democracy.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix's Brazil launch, yielding 4-5M subs, provides a roadmap for expansion into international markets, which may someday account for 75-80% of its user base — The streaming service has a plan to expand everywhere, and it begins in São Paulo. — by — Subscribe Reprints
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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Twitter will live stream Trump's inauguration on January 20 at 11AM ET in partnership with PBS NewsHour — Twitter will be streaming Donald Trump's inauguration for the top political job in the U.S. starting at 11 AM ET on Friday, January 20 in partnership with PBS NewsHour.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Trump meeting with AT&T executives at Trump Tower to discuss the company's proposed $85.4 billion bid for Time Warner — Meeting to discuss merger will be in Trump Tower in New York — Trump blasted the $85.4 billion deal during presidential race
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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
BuzzFeed sold more than $25K worth of “failing pile of garbage” merchandise on Wednesday and will donate all proceeds to the Committee to Project Journalists — BuzzFeed sold more than $25,000 worth of “failing pile of garbage” merchandise on Wednesday and will donate all the proceeds …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Techdirt's existence is threatened by costs of fighting $15M libel suit brought by Shiva Ayyadurai, represented by Charles Harder, who won against Gawker — As you may have heard, last week we were sued for $15 million by Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email.