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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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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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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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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post ratifies its first union contract, which guarantees raises, editorial independence, and enhanced diversity — Employees voted nearly unanimously for a contract guaranteeing raises, editorial independence and enhanced diversity. — NEW YORK The Huffington Post ratified …
Alex Weprin / Politico:
In an interview, Sean Hannity says the media doesn't understand Trump and consists of “a bunch of overpaid, out of touch, lazy millionaires” — With top White House adviser Steve Bannon openly calling the media the “opposition party,” and President Trump in agreement …
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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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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Felony riot charges have been dropped for three more journalists who were arrested at inauguration protests; two cases are still pending — Three more journalists who were arrested while covering protests against Donald Trump's inauguration have had felony charges against them dropped by prosecutors.
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Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists arrested in DC inauguration protests have law on their side
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Analytics firms and social media stars say Snapchat Stories view counts have plummeted between 15% and 40% since Instagram launched its Stories clone — Good enough and convenient. That's proved a winning strategy for Instagram's clone, according to a dozen analytics providers …
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
New York Times Media Editor Bill Brink promoted to new, as-yet unnamed role within the newspaper, where he will focus on storytelling and features — The New York Times business news desk is undergoing a reorganization as part of the newspaper's broader overhaul.
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
In internal memo, Fox execs James and Lachlan Murdoch say they're helping staff affected by the Muslim ban, note the company was founded by immigrants — 21st Century Fox executives Lachlan and James Murdoch on Monday addressed employees about President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration.
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@oliverdarcy, @reaganbattalion, @oliverdarcy and @davidfolkenflik
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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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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