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5:30 PM ET, January 31, 2017

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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
WSJ EIC Gerry Baker instructed staff to stop calling countries banned by Trump as majority Muslim, then retreats to say term should not be only description used  —  Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerry Baker has instructed editors to stop referring to the countries targeted …
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Lewis Wallace:
Marketplace reporter Lewis Wallace, a transgender man, fired over personal blog post questioning neutrality and objectivity in the Trump era  —  On Monday I was fired from my job as a journalist at Marketplace, where I have worked as a news reporter since May 2016.
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
Facebook announces new partnerships with third-party ad-tech firms to improve quality of measurement data and show marketers how its ads perform compared to TV  —  Facebook is refining its ad measurement offerings to give marketers more information about their campaigns on its ad platform.
Discussion: Facebook, Variety, TechCrunch and Adweek
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Sources: layoffs hitting the Wall Street Journal today, with cuts to bureaus in Asia and Europe  —  Layoffs hit The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.  —  Details were scant, but sources said the cuts were happening in Journal bureaus in Europe and Asia.
Hamza Shaban / BuzzFeed:
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos' company, Amazon, joins Washington State's lawsuit against Trump's Muslim ban  —  The attorney general of Washington state filed a lawsuit Monday challenging President Donald Trump's controversial immigration order, and he's counting two Washington-based companies …
Discussion: Business Insider, @amzam and @macloo
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Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
In internal memo, Fox execs James and Lachlan Murdoch say they're helping staff affected by the Muslim ban and note the company was founded by immigrants
Peter Kafka / Recode:
New FCC chair Ajit Pai quietly removed a proposal to force pay-TV operators to open-source their set-top boxes from the FCC's agenda last week  —  The cable guys win one, courtesy of a Trump appointee.  —  Looks like the cable guys won't have to open their boxes after all.
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
As FCC chairman, Ajit Pai says he plans to rollback unnecessary commission regulations but declined to comment on net neutrality or the AT&T-Time Warner merger  —  The new Republican chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, vowed to pare back outdated commission regulations …
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Kelly Bourdet named editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com, replacing Katie Drummond, who was promoted to Gizmodo Media Group executive managing editor  —  Kelly Bourdet will be the next editor in chief of Gizmodo.com.  Katie Drummond — the former Gizmodo.com editor in chief who was promoted …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fiction-app startup Radish raises $3M from UTA, Bertelsmann, Amy Tan and others; Larry Kirshbaum, ex-head of Amazon Publishing, is an adviser  —  Radish Media, a short-form serialized fiction platform startup, has raised $3 million in seed funding from investors including UTA, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments and author Amy Tan.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
How White House press secretary Sean Spicer continues to target CNN correspondent Jim Acosta and why it matters  —  Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, made a couple of compelling points last night at a George Washington University event on White House reporting.
 
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