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4:50 AM ET, January 25, 2017

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The Huffington Post:
Sources: supervisors have frozen public communications at DHHS, EPA, and USDA's research arm as new Trump administration takes over  —  Staff have been told to stop talking to Congress and the press.  —  WASHINGTON Multiple federal agencies have told their employees to cease communications …
James Warren / Poynter:
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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
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Gateway Pundit, an alt-right site and purveyor of fake news, claims it has a slot in Trump's White House as a correspondent
Discussion: @thefix and Motherboard
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Four more journalists face felony charges after being arrested while covering unrest at US inauguration  —  A documentary producer, a photojournalist, a live-streamer and a freelance reporter facing up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted  —  Four more journalists …
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Survey says 55% of American adults consume news on Facebook but just 18% trust news on Facebook all or most of the time  —  Only 18% of people surveyed said they trust news on Facebook all or most of the time.  —  A majority of American adults say they consumed news on Facebook in the past month …
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Lucy Battersby / Sydney Morning Herald:
The New York Times opens a bureau in Sydney, led by journalist Damien Cave, as an experiment in journalism and audience growth  —  The New York Times is setting up a small team in Sydney to create local stories it hopes will encourage Australians to subscribe and engage with the Times' global network.
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 …
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Instagram founder Kevin Systrom and Head of Product Kevin Weil explain the bevy of new features launched in 2016, many of which were inspired by Snapchat  —  How Kevin Systrom got over minimalism and snapped into building mode.  —  Toward the tail end of 2015, Kevin Systrom, the CEO of Instagram …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Ozy Media raises $10M in third round of funding, led by GSV Capital, to expand editorial staff including video team  —  Silicon Valley startup Ozy Media — a next-generation news startup hoping to follow in the footsteps of BuzzFeed and Vice Media — has banked a $10 million Series B round of funding.
The Seattle Times:
Shooter at Milo Yiannopoulos demonstration at the University of Washington had messaged Milo seeking an autograph an hour before the shooting  —  The attorney for the wounded man says her seriously injured client feels “empathy” for the man who shot him and wants to meet with him.
Peggy McGlone / Washington Post:
Newseum lays off 26 employees, about 10 percent of staff, as financial struggles continue  —  The Newseum laid off 26 employees Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to improve its financial health, officials confirmed.  —  The cuts represent about 10 percent of the 230-member staff …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Report: print sales of The Sun, Sunday Mirror, Sunday People, Daily Star Sunday, and the Sunday Post are down more than 10% year over year  —  Seven UK national newspapers are currently losing sales at a rate of more than ten per cent year on year, according to the latest ABC figures for December.
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.
Discussion: @newsweek, twitchy.com and @newsweek
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.
 
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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