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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Samantha Bee is hosting a counter-event to the White House Correspondents Association's annual dinner, called “Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner” — The annual custom of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner suddenly seems uncomfortable if not untenable …
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
White House Correspondents' dinner going ahead as planned this year, WHCA President Jeff Mason confirms in a statement — The ‘Full Frontal’ host will emcee an event the same evening that the annual political party is scheduled to take place. But given the Trump administration's hostility toward …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A look at Sean Spicer's first week on the job and feedback he's received, including Trump's distaste of his suit size, comments from Bannon and GOP strategists — WASHINGTON — In his first, rocky week as President Trump's press secretary, Sean M. Spicer was scolded by his boss …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Despite erosion of trust, Pew research shows people still appreciate media's watchdog role and want journalists to call out lies — Journalism, according to the renowned media scholar and historian Sean Hannity, is dead. — Of course, the Fox News host and Donald Trump disciple …
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Joe Tidy / Sky News:
The UK government's Culture, Media and Sport Committee launches an inquiry into fake news; its chairman says social networks must take responsibility — Facebook should verify its content to prove to users articles are not fake news, the Culture, Media and Sport Committee chairman has told Sky News.
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UK Parliament, The Guardian, BBC, Engadget, @skynews, Telegraph and The Week
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Mark Harris / Vulture:
Trump's long tenure in the entertainment industry has given him a warped view of journalists as publicists who dole out uncritical media praise — Donald Trump's presidency has opened, and the reviews are raves! I know this because of a press release the White House issued on Wednesday morning.
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
During an appearance on Fox News, White House advisor Kellyanne Conway asked why journalists and commentators who criticized Trump haven't been fired — After Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace grilled White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on chief strategist Steve Bannon's condemnation of the media …
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@walterreports, @neilmcmahon, @jason_kint, @aurorasblog, Shareblue, Heat Street and Axios
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Conservative media personalities like Infowars' Alex Jones, once on the fringes of American politics, are rising to prominence in the Trump era — On Tuesday, Roger Stone went on the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's Infowars show and claimed that he had been the victim of an assassination attempt via polonium poisoning.
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@maggienyt, @rosiegray, @jayrosen_nyu and @yappelbaum
Jamie Grierson / The Guardian:
London Evening Standard Editor Sarah Sands named editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme — London Evening Standard editor is to replace Jamie Angus at helm of flagship news and current affairs programme — Sarah Sands, editor of the London Evening Standard, is to join the BBC as editor of Today …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
CNN creates new investigative reporting unit in effort to break more news, with Carl Bernstein and James Steele as advisers — CNN is embarking on what it characterizes as a major new initiative in investigative reporting as executives pull together accomplished reporters into a single unit and promise to hire at least a dozen more.
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@mdornic, @blakeellis3, @sfiegerman, @natemcdermott, @elanazak, @niemanlab and @davidfolkenflik
Tamar Wilner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Texas Senate cites ‘decorum’ to increase distance between legislators, reporters — REPORTERS IN TEXAS have long enjoyed an unusual level of access to their state legislators. But when the legislative session started earlier this month, they became the latest statehouse journalists to find …
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@dmedialab, @usprojectcjr and @bgpolitics
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
An anonymous junior reporter who's worked at Gannett and Tronc discusses life in the daily newspaper trenches — Newspapers have struggled more than any print media in finding a sustainable digital media model. For the latest in our anonymous Confessions series, we talked …
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@bzelizer, @david_hicks and @digiday
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