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Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: Fox & Friends news anchor Heather Nauert in talks with Trump about a White House communications job — Imagine you're Reince Priebus. Every day, you hear speculation that your days as White House chief of staff are numbered. You wake up on a Sunday and read that colleague Kellyanne Conway's dream job is, well, yours.
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Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:
Profile of Sean Spicer, who was known among the DC press corps as an amicable if sharp-tongued PR pro before he became White House press secretary — Once a well-liked figure among the D.C. press, Sean Spicer's new role as Trump's attack dog has people scratching their heads.
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Washington Post:
Washington Post launches Discover Edition on Snapchat, becomes first news org to push daily breaking news updates; edition will be live in the US, UK, Canada — New Post Edition will be constantly updated seven days a week — The Washington Post today announced the launch of The Post's …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Sources: WSJ Editor-in-Chief Gerard Baker defends paper's Trump coverage in staff meeting, says reporting hasn't been soft and it's “fake news” to say otherwise — And it's “fake news” to say otherwise. — NEW YORK Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Gerard Baker defended …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Rupert Murdoch's ties to Trump family, including Ivanka's former role as trustee for a Murdoch trust, raise questions about how he will guide his media empire — The ties that bind the most powerful media mogul in the world to the leader of the free world just keep getting stronger.
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Jeff Gammage / Philly.com:
Knight Foundation and the Lenfest Institute for Journalism to invest $4.8M to help newspapers speed transition to digital, reach new audiences, more — Two foundations intend to spend a combined $4.8 million to find ways to speed the online transformation of the Inquirer and other news organizations around …
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Stuart Franklin / The Guardian:
Chair of World Press Photo contest, Stuart Franklin, criticizes decision to confer Photo of the Year award to AP photograph of Russian ambassador's assassin — Its impact is undeniable, but the winner of the World Press Photo of the Year furthers the compact between martyrdom and publicity
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Al Jazeera English:
Photo of assassin who killed Russia's ambassador to Turkey, taken by Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici, wins 2017 World Press Photo competition — AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici wins 2017 World Press Photo competition for image of Russian ambassador's assassin.
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Josh Elliott fired from CBS News after signing off from his anchor post at CBS' digital channel, CBSN, for a larger role at the network — Josh Elliott has been dramatically fired from CBS News today after a bizarre series of events where he stepped down from CBS's digital channel …
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Fox News:
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro says he wants CNN out of the country just days after CNN en Espanol airs report on passports, visas being sold in Iraq — Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday he wanted CNN out of the country, alleging it misrepresents the truth and meddles in issues that are not of its concern.
Julie Bort / Business Insider:
Behind Medium's pivot away from an ad-funded business model, as speculation mounts that the startup is a vanity project for billionaire founder Ev Williams — Four days into 2017, Medium's employees came to work and were told that one-third of them, 50 people, were fired. — They were shocked.
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Chadwick Moore / New York Post:
Writer Chadwick Moore, who penned a profile on Milo Yiannopoulos for Out magazine, discusses the backlash he received over it, from trolling to alienation — Chadwick Moore in his East Williamsburg home … When Out magazine assigned me an interview with the Breitbart.com rabble-rouser Milo Yiannopoulos …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Facebook is in talks with record labels about licensing their music for the social network, positioning it as a competitor to YouTube — Social network seeks accord for user videos, and possibly more — Music clips could lure ads away from $70 billion TV industry
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Betsy Reed / The Intercept:
Bestselling author Naomi Klein joins The Intercept as senior correspondent to cover the Trump era — I am extremely happy to announce that Naomi Klein has joined The Intercept as Senior Correspondent. — As one of the world's foremost journalists and thinkers about power and injustice …
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Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Washington Post CIO Shailesh Prakash and Director of Product Joey Marburger, who talk to Jeff Bezos more than Marty Baron does — Is it an underhanded compliment to be called the most innovative company in the newspaper business? — The Washington Post will happily take it.
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