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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
In a story on national security advisor Michael Flynn's resignation, the New York Times quoted from a fake Twitter account purporting to be Flynn — The New York Times fell victim early Tuesday morning to a fake Twitter account purporting to belong to recently resigned national security …
Wall Street Journal:
Disney Severs Ties With YouTube Star PewDiePie After Anti-Semitic Posts — Move came after the Journal asked about videos in which he included anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery — Felix Kjellberg, who has 53 million subscribers to his “PewDiePie” YouTube channel, reacts as two men hold up a sign saying …
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
YouTube cancels Scare PewDiePie, an original series by its star PewDiePie; Google has also removed the YouTuber from the Google Preferred advertising program — PewDiePie also lost his preferred advertising status — YouTube's biggest star, PewDiePie, has always flirted with controversy.
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Jenna Amatulli / The Huffington Post:
Playboy returns to its roots, will bring back nudity but drop “Entertainment for Men” under new chief creative officer Cooper Hefner — “Nudity was never the problem because nudity isn't a problem.” — Trends Editor, The Huffington Post — It's been only a few months since …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Journalist April Ryan says White House communications director Omarosa Manigault threatened her with negative dossier that Trump officials had compiled — Conflict and controversy seem to follow Omarosa Manigault, who stirred up plenty of both as a reality-TV star and a longtime associate of President Trump.
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple's Eddy Cue says “Planet of the Apps” reality show will premiere this spring exclusively on Apple Music and will also have its own dedicated app — At the Code Media conference this evening, Apple's Eddy Cue sat down alongside Ben Silverman for an interview.
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Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap:
In four-part tweeted apology, New York Times feature writer Jacob Bernstein apologized for a slur he made about First Lady Melania Trump — Jacob Bernstein says he “made a stupid remark about the first lady” — The New York Times reporter who called Melania Trump a “hooker” has apologized …
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed is co-producing TV content with NBCUniversal, including a crime investigation docu-series; a source says BuzzFeed is eyeing a 2018 IPO — BuzzFeed and NBCUniversal are unveiling new original series under development, the companies' first joint television productions since the formation of their partnership.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
There's division among the White House press corps after Trump-Trudeau press conference where two conservative outlets were granted questions, none about Flynn — After president calls on two questioners who fail to ask about Flynn, reporters from other outlets cry foul.
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James Warren / Poynter:
Trump circumvents “liberal” media and amplifies sympathetic outlets in press conference with Trudeau
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
White House grants press credentials to Gateway Pundit, a pro-Trump publication known for spreading false rumors — The Gateway Pundit, a provocative conservative blog, gained notice last year for its fervent pro-Trump coverage and its penchant for promoting false rumors about voter fraud …
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
In an abrupt organizational shake-up, Newsweek EIC Jim Impoco is leaving and will be replaced by Matt McAllester, who will have a new title of global EIC — Staff in ‘shock’ over abrupt departure — Jim Impoco, the editor in chief of Newsweek for the past three-and-a-half years …
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Since early last year, Edward Snowden has been quietly serving as President of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, working on security tools for journalists — WHEN EDWARD SNOWDEN leaked the biggest collection of classified National Security Agency documents in history …
Melody Kramer / Poynter:
Q&A with Matt Kiser, founder of the WTF Just Happened Today blog, which has 48K newsletter subscribers and is on track to garner 2.5M pageviews in February — Matt Kiser worked in news for many years, and now he works as a product manager at an algorithm startup in Seattle.
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