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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Source: Breitbart National Security Editor Sebastian Gorka joining the Trump administration, likely taking up position on National Security Council — Sebastian Gorka, the Breitbart national security editor and a Fox News contributor, is expected to join President Donald Trump's White House …
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@mattdpearce, @daviduberti, @jkirchick, @anthony, @hadas_gold, @rosiegray, New York Magazine, AOL and Politico
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
A new era of access journalism is emerging, one that rewards alt-right sites and peddlers of fake news that are pro-Trump and will not criticize him — Armed with its own set of facts, the right has created a parallel media universe that's risen all the way with Trump to the White House.
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@sulliview, @cernovich and @mat
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Gateway Pundit, an alt-right site and purveyor of fake news, claims it has a position in Trump's White House as a correspondent — When President-elect Donald Trump said on Fox News this week that he wouldn't kick the media out of the White House, after all, he added a word of warning …
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The Huffington Post, Motherboard, @thefix and Business Insider
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Report by media trade body says members, including FT and NYT, earned 14% of revenue from content distributed on platforms like Facebook in first half of 2016 — Publishers are receiving far less money than might have been expected from placing their content on the third-party distribution platforms owned …
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BuzzFeed, @jason_kint, @buzzfeedben, @craigsilverman, @lisamurphyto and New York Times
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Source: SNL has indefinitely suspended writer Katie Rich over a tweeted joke about Donald Trump's youngest child Barron, following online backlash — Katie Rich, a writer for “Saturday Night Live,” has been suspended from her position at that show following a widely criticized post …
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TVWeek.com, Deadline, Gothamist, Co.Create, The Wrap, Washington Post, @pftompkins, Chicago Sun Times, NPR, @laurengreenberg, @katmur23, @drgmlatulippe, @brianwcollins, @danharmon, @yashar, @sgarrettpate, @mercurialblonde, @chriscaesar, The Daily Caller, @unitedsloth, @thatbilloakley, @douthatnyt, @nataliesurely, @thesethhughes, @shelbyfero, New York Times, Variety, AOL, TVGuide.com, HotNewHipHop.com, twitchy.com, Refinery29, Vanity Fair, TheBlaze, Mashable and Just Jared
Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix has acquired the rights to a documentary about the Hulk Hogan-Gawker case, that is currently being screened at Sundance — The streamer already landed the rights to docs ‘Casting JonBenet’ and ‘Chasing Coral.’ — Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to the documentary Nobody Speak …
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The Verge, @betsbarnes, @facepaulmrevere, @seyitaylor, @petersterne, Fortune and Variety
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Newsweek retracts story praising assault of white supremacist Richard Spencer, issuing an apology via Twitter — Newsweek apologized Tuesday after publishing a piece that relished in the assault on white supremacist Richard Spencer Friday as he was counter-protesting at an anti-Donald Trump demonstration in Washington, D.C.
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@newsweek, @newsweek and twitchy.com
The Guardian:
The journalists who broke the Panama Papers story call on US press to collaborate on investigations into Donald Trump and to show solidarity with each other — Now it is time for the media to join forces once again - especially given the threat Trump poses — onald Trump is now president.
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@f_obermaier, @patkiernan, @sarahljaffe, @pwthornton and @niemanlab
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
On Monday, Trump dispatched aide Matthew Schuck - an ex-staff writer at right wing website Daily Surge - and a colleague, to the Voice of America's studios — The president dispatches two aides to the broadcasting agency that came under fire over the weekend for its Trump coverage.
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@jdawsey1, @brianklaas, @astroehlein, @cjcmichel, @isaacdovere and @mlcalderone
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
President Trump designates net neutrality opponent Ajit Pai as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission — Donald Trump has elevated Ajit Pai to chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, giving control over the agency to a reliable conservative who's been opposed to pretty …
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The Daily Beast, Forbes, Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, Vox, The Next Web, @ajitpaifcc, Multichannel News, Mashable, CNNMoney, AdExchanger, GeekWire, Engadget and Broadcasting & Cable
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon gets first Oscar nomination for “Manchester by the Sea”, marking the first time a streaming service has been recognised in the Best Picture category — Kenneth Lonergan's drama scored a total of six noms, including lead actor, supporting actor and supporting actress.
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@venkatananth, GeekWire, Variety, @kimmasters, @tatianasiegel27 and @thrmattbelloni
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Verizon laid off 155 employees from its mobile streaming service Go90; sources say Vessel team, acquired in October, will rebuild the service — Team from acquisition Vessel charged with app rebuild — Verizon's mobile streaming service Go90 is about to get a hard reset …
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Broadcasting & Cable, Tubefilter, @digitalshields, TechCrunch, CNBC, Engadget, @bmccandless and @jank0
Paul Sandle / Reuters:
Sources: Guardian considering becoming a tabloid and outsourcing printing to rival Rupert Murdoch's News UK to cut costs — Britain's Guardian newspaper is considering becoming a tabloid and outsourcing printing to a rival such as Rupert Murdoch's News UK as one of a series of options to cut costs, sources told Reuters.
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Press Gazette and City A.M.
Alexis Sobel Fitts / Backchannel:
Conservative media personalities and news sites are bypassing talk radio in favor of Facebook Live, where some video broadcasts get millions of viewers — How the rough-around-the-edges live-streaming tool became the perfect incubator for conservative news in the Trump age.
Music Business Worldwide:
Sources: Sprint's 33% stake in TIDAL cost $200M, valuing TIDAL at $600M — Well, well, well. — Less than a day after MBW ruminated on whether TIDAL would be able to secure some outside help with its funding - and survive without it - a major development has been confirmed.
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Rolling Stone, @mgsiegler, The Wrap, Variety and Forbes
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