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Sources: the FBI rejected a White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Trump's associates and Russians — FBI refused WH request on Trump-Russia stories — Washington (CNN)The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock …
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Sources: CNN is considering sitting out this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 29 — The cable network, which Donald Trump has repeatedly called “fake news,” is discussing internally about whether to attend the annual star-studded dinner, sources say.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Interviews around the US reveal that Americans of varying political affiliations believe Trump's characterization of the media as “enemy” went too far — Biased? Probably. Oppositional? Maybe. Essential? In theory. But the enemy? Not so much.
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
In CPAC speech, Donald Trump says not all media, just “fake news media”, is the enemy of American people, decries leaks, claims reporters make up sources, more — In his speech at CPAC this morning, President Donald Trump took aim at the media once again, decrying leaks …
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Interviews detail how Disney's $675M purchase of Maker Studios failed to thrive as prospects faded for YouTube multichannel networks — It wasn't one thing that transformed Maker Studios from a Disney princess to a pumpkin — there were a whole lot of many things.
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
McClatchy debuts Video Lab West to experiment with production and distribution of VR, AR, 3D video, more, in collaboration with Google and YouTube — Two years after creating a video lab in Washington, D.C., McClatchy is heading out West. — Today, McClatchy announced Video Lab West …
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Timothy Pratt / Columbia Journalism Review:
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed released 1.47M pages of documents on paper instead of digitally after public records tussle related to federal probe of city contracts — IN A SURREAL SCENE near the end of Black Orpheus, the title character seeks his lost love, Eurydice, in a government building at night.
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
ESPN's SportsCenter gearing up to create original video shorts for its site and app, will use social sites for distribution — ESPN is gearing up to produce more original “SportsCenter” videos for digital and social platforms. — Within ESPN's 40-person digital video production team …
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Tyler Falk / Current:
NPR board to vote Friday on three-year plan to increase station fees for non-news shows by 3.5%, dues and other fees to be increased based on station revenue — The NPR board of directors is expected to vote Friday on a three-year plan for increasing station fees, which will support …
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Sami Main / Adweek:
Women's Wear Daily will cease publishing its weekly print product, instead putting out only special editions, while eliminating eight positions — Will focus on daily digital coverage, with special print editions — Women's Wear Daily, the so-called “bible of fashion,” …
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@joshsternberg, @fishbowlny and @adweek
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
Facebook begins testing ad breaks in partner videos, sharing 55% of ad revenue; Live videos from Pages with 2K+ followers will get an ad break option — Many publishers have trouble making money off Facebook videos — this could change that. — Facebook is ready to make money from all the videos …
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Pearson reports loss of £2.6B for 2016, the biggest in its history, due to decline in US textbook sales, plans to sell its English test prep business in China — Pre-tax losses soar to £2.6bn as group - which is is selling Penguin Random House - is hit by slump in US textbook sales
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