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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
In an interview, WH chief strategist Steve Bannon says the media should “keep its mouth shut”, calls it “the opposition party”, citing NYT and WaPo by name — WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's chief White House strategist, laced into the American press during …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
WSJ media and advertising reporter Steven Perlberg is joining BuzzFeed, where he will cover Trump's relationship with the media — President Donald Trump's complicated relationship with the news media has riveted the political class for months — his impromptu TV appearances where foreign policy is made …
Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
Profile of Kellyanne Conway, who says she's trying to dramatically scale back her role as media bulldog, though she promised Trump she will oversee WH messaging — The president's counselor — now the most powerful (and ridiculed) woman in America — talks ‘SNL,’ “alternative facts,” the …
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
The White House denies that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been offered press credentials — Alex Jones likely won't be attending any upcoming White House press briefings, according to the Trump adminstration's press office. — Yesterday Alex Jones told viewers on his popular YouTube channel …
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Skype seats for White House press conferences are a good idea, if managed fairly and independently of the White House — Monday's first official White House press conference got lots of attention for the way Press Secretary Sean Spicer handled the media. At first skipping major news outlets …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Twitter says it's replacing the Moments tab with an Explore tab, which emphasizes trending topics and live video — Content advisory — Twitter's central Moments tab, which once terrorized obsessive-compulsive users with a blue dot that never went away, is going away.
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Business Insider:
WSJ: Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam is exploring a combination with Charter Communications, though talks are preliminary — The telecommunications giants Verizon and Charter Communications are exploring a combination, The Wall Street Journal's Shalini Ramachandran, Ryan Knutson, and Dana Mattioli report.
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Jessica Yellin / New York Times:
As a condition of Time Warner's AT&T bid, CNN should be sold to a new independent entity, creating more chances for journalistic rigor rather than punditry — In 2004, eight years after he'd sold CNN to Time Warner, Ted Turner, the network's founder, sounded an alarm about the dangers of corporate ownership of news organizations.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Facebook says it will promote longer videos with high completion rates in News Feed — Because that's what's on TV. — You know how mobile + social is supposed to = short attention span? — No more, says Facebook: It says it is going to start rewarding video makers who create longer clips — if people actually finish them.
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Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
Media advocates denounce arrests of journalists covering violent protests near inauguration — At least six journalists were charged with felony rioting after they were arrested while covering the violent protests that took place just blocks from President Trump's inauguration parade …
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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Filmmaker Alex Gibney is independently developing a documentary about Roger Ailes — The ‘Going Clear’ director's independent project comes on the heels of Annapurna Pictures scooping up a pitch from ‘Big Short’ writer Charles Randolph about the women who brought down the former Fox News chairman with accusations of sexual harassment.
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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
As Fox faces scrutiny over its Sky bid, a look at the internal power dynamics among James, Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch — On a cold winter morning last month, James Murdoch took to the stage at a digital media conference in a skyscraper overlooking Central Park and sat down on a beige sofa.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Bloomberg says people who are served its homepage via new Boomerang feature instead of infinite scroll at end of articles view 28% more pages per visit — Publishers are struggling with the decline in home page traffic across the board. Bloomberg Media thinks it has found a remedy …
Dale Kasler / Sacramento Bee:
McClatchy names board member and investor Craig Forman as new president and CEO, replacing Pat Talamantes — McClatchy named a new president and chief executive officer Wednesday, appointing tech-savvy entrepreneur and former journalist Craig Forman to replace Pat Talamantes …
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Verge:
Amid Trump's gag orders on US agencies including EPA, anonymous Twitter accounts like @AltNatParkSer keep tweeting and gain traction — Rejecting Trump's science gag order, anonymous NPS Twitter accounts are still going — Government offices (and rogue employees therein) …
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Reuters:
USDA says gag-order calling for suspension of “public-facing documents” sent to research unit was flawed, has issued new guidance to replace it
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