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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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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Source: WSJ editor's directive over coverage of Trump's immigration order has caused newsroom tensions, with Baker accused of “whitewashing” coverage — There's some upset in The Wall Street Journal newsroom over a directive from editor in chief Gerry Baker to stop using the phrase …
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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.
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New Yorker's website publishes 15 pieces a day, attracting 30M+ uniques in November 2016, up 155% year-on-year — Nick Thompson was on his way to the subway when he got an email from his boss, New Yorker Editor David Remnick. — The subject line? “Morning piece.”
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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
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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 …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Streaming media app Plex acquires news video startup Watchup, which will now be integrated into the Plex app, with an expected launch of Q2 2017 — In recent months, streaming media app Plex has expanded its focus from offering tools to organize and stream your home media collection of photos …
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Politico:
New York magazine appoints The Daily Beast's political reporter Olivia Nuzzi as its first ever Washington correspondent — New York magazine has hired The Daily Beast's Olivia Nuzzi as its first-ever Washington correspondent, the magazine will announce later today.
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Columbia Journalism Review, @olivianuzzi, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, @scottbix, @abrahamjoseph and @jeffjarvis
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 …
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@itsdavidford, @katiedrumm and @petersterne
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.
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Publishers Weekly, The Digital Reader, @duncanclark and TechCrunch
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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