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Chris Massie / CNN:
WH official, ex-Breitbart editor Sebastian Gorka, says they'll keep saying “fake news” until media realizes their “monumental desire” to attack POTUS is wrong — (CNN)Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, said Monday that the administration …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
White House releases list of 78 terrorist attacks that it claims received little media attention, but list includes many that were widely covered — The White House on Monday evening distributed a list of terrorist attacks that “have not received the media attention they deserved.”
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Disney reports Q1 revenue of $14.78B, down 3% YoY, vs $15B expected; net income down 14% YoY to $2.48B — Fiscal first quarter revenue dropped 3 percent to $14.8 billion. — The Walt Disney Co. earned $1.55 per share on revenue of $14.8 billion, a decline of 3 percent, during its fiscal first quarter.
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Melania Trump files suit against Mail Media, claiming Daily Mail escort article damaged her “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” as FLOTUS to make millions — A lawyer for first lady Melania Trump argued in a lawsuit filed Monday that an article falsely alleging she once worked …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube opens up mobile livestreaming to all creators with more than 10,000 subscribers and debuts Super Chat, which lets users pay to highlight their messages — YouTube is now letting creators with at least 10,000 subscribers live-stream mobile video — and it's giving them a new way to make money from their most ardent fans.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Huffington Post Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen says she wants the site to become a tabloid that everyone from “the janitor to the CEO” can read — Trumps escalating war with the media — Can The Huffington Post, a web site founded as a liberal answer to The Drudge Report, win over millions of Trump voters?
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Investigative reporter David Sirota says he will not be taking up the CEO role at David Brock's True Blue Media, positioned as a left-wing Breitbart — Sirota announced he would join True Blue Media last month. “The circumstances of the job subsequently changed.” — David Sirota / Via davidsirota.com
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The Daily Dot:
FBI reverses course on plans to require most FOIA requests to come via fax or mail starting March 1, won't require phone numbers for online requests — The Federal Bureau of Investigation will lift all restrictions on its online system for filing public-records requests and limit the amount …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New York Times hires Rebecca Blumenstein, deputy editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, as a deputy managing editor — Rebecca Blumenstein, the deputy editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, is moving a few blocks to work for the company's archrival.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
CEO Erik Huggers says Vevo is postponing subscription service launch to focus on international expansion and original content — Music video service Vevo is putting the brakes on its planned subscription service, and will instead focus on its international expansion as well as original content production …
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Ron Rosenbaum / Los Angeles Review of Books:
The story of The Munich Post, a German newspaper that continually investigated Hitler, reported on plans for the Final Solution, and was ultimately shut down — THE TRUMP-HITLER COMPARISON. Is there any comparison? Between the way the campaigns of Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler should have been treated by the media and the culture?
Dan Primack / Axios:
Reports on Joanna Coles' Snap Inc. compensation misinterpreted key facts, overlooking that some male board members were unpaid and others had additional roles — Joanna Coles is the only woman on Snap's board of directors. She also earns less compensation than her male colleagues, as first noted by Fortune's Valentina Zarya.
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