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5:10 PM ET, February 14, 2017

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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:

In a story on national security adviser 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 …

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

Media should rethink the value of giving time on political TV shows to people like Stephen Miller, who tell brash falsehoods — Strange, isn't it, that it was a lie that supposedly caused Gen. Michael Flynn to be fired? His false assurances to Vice President Pence about pre-election conversations …

Discussion: @karaswisher, Vanity Fair and Politicus USA

Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: Fox & Friends news anchor Heather Nauert in talks with Trump about a White House communications job

Discussion: Vanity Fair, Breitbart and The Week

Kurt Wagner / Recode:

Facebook announces free app for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung Smart TV, launching “soon” — The new app will let users kick back and watch Facebook videos from the couch. — Facebook is coming to your television. — The social network on Tuesday announced a new app …

Discussion: Facebook, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Axios, AppAdvice.com Latest, Business Insider, The Verge and MacRumors

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 …

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

Discussion: @bandaidknees, Fortune, @om, Engadget, INSIDER, The Wrap, The Daily Caller, The Drum, @reckless, @benpopper, @stuartgibson, The Guardian, Business Insider, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Mashable, Polygon, Variety and Adweek

Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap:

In a four-part tweeted apology, New York Times feature writer Jacob Bernstein apologized for a slur he made about First Lady Melania Trump at a party — Jacob Bernstein says he “made a stupid remark about the first lady” — The New York Times reporter who called Melania Trump a “hooker” …

Discussion: @bernsteinjacob, New York Times, @bernsteinjacob, WWD, Hollywood Reporter, Mediaite, Refinery29, @jeremymbarr, @megan, @petersterne, The Daily Caller, @yoloethics and Newser

Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
N.Y. Times reprimands reporter for sharing ‘unfounded rumor’ about Melania Trump

Discussion: @bernsteinjacob, @bernsteinjacob, @emrata, IJR, CinemaBlend, The Daily Caller, Vanity Fair, USA Today, The Huffington Post, TheBlaze, @flotus, RT, Mediaite, PAPERMAG and The Wrap

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.

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.

Discussion: Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Next Web, YouTube, Variety, TechCrunch, @recode, Recode, YouTube, AppAdvice.com Latest, @sdw, BGR, The Verge, @marcoarment, Fortune, @tombevanrcp, Softpedia News, MacRumors, Recode, Recode, The Wrap, Recode, @lightspeedvp, @edzitron, @rsa, MAC blog, 9to5Mac, @vindugoel, @vindugoel, iMore, @recode, @vindugoel, @recode, @vindugoel, @recode, @vindugoel, @awallenstein, @recode, @recode and MacRumors

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 — Jim Impoco, the editor in chief of Newsweek for the past three-and-a-half years, is leaving the magazine in an abrupt shakeup announced to employees Tuesday morning.

Discussion: Adweek, @grahamdavida and @nycjim

John Koblin / New York Times:

Noah Oppenheim named president of NBC News, replacing Deborah Turness, now president of NBC News International; NBC News takes 25% stake in Euronews — NBC News will announce a significant reorganization of its leadership ranks, along with a major investment in a European TV network, a person briefed on the changes said Tuesday.

Discussion: TVNewser, TVWeek.com, Variety and FTVLive

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.

Discussion: @katiejmbaker and @buzzfeedben

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.

Discussion: @mlcalderone, Vanity Fair, @lrozen, @sykescharlie, @hadas_gold and TVSpy

James Warren / Poynter:
Trump circumvents “liberal” media and amplifies sympathetic outlets in press conference with Trudeau

Discussion: CNNMoney, The Hill, Fox News, CNN, NPR, Fortune, Politicus USA, IJR, New York Times, Mediaite, Media Matters for America, Jezebel, Washington Post, Morning Consult and Vanity Fair

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 …

Discussion: @runasand, @b_obermayer, CNET, @katiecouric, @wired and @bikinirobotarmy, Thanks:@gfififi

BuzzFeed:

A soon-to-be-released Hollywood film, A Cure For Wellness, used five fake news sites and a series of viral hoaxes as part of its promotional campaign — A Cure For Wellness is linked to five fake local news websites that have been spreading hoaxes about vaccinations, Trump, and other topics.

Discussion: Adweek, The Verge, Blastr News, The Drum, The Wrap, IndieWire and Variety

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Dan Frommer / Recode:
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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

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Mia Galuppo / Hollywood Reporter:
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Sources: WSJ Editor Gerard Baker views his critics as liberal whiners and believes his approach is fair and balanced, as the paper becomes more politicized

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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
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Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
Former members of Google News team remember how Google News accepted sites while mitigating spam and rejecting or de-ranking unreliable and biased sources

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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

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Michael Calderone / Huffington Post Australia:
Sources: Slate laid off about six full-time staffers and contract writers

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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

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Yvonne Villarreal / Los Angeles Times:
YouTube Kids to launch original programming, with the first four shows beginning rollout in April

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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

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Elisabeth Buchwald / CNN:
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