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10:30 AM ET, February 26, 2017

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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
President Trump says he will not attend White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this year; WHCA president says the dinner will still go ahead on April 29  —  Donald Trump on Saturday capped a week of tumultuous relations with the press by saying he will not attend …
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Sources: Trump administration got senior members of intelligence community and Congress to call news outlets to challenge stories about Trump's ties to Russia  —  The Trump administration has enlisted senior members of the intelligence community and Congress in efforts to counter news stories …
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CNN:
Sources: the FBI rejected a White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Trump's associates and Russians
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Sources: Gretchen Carlson is in talks to join MSNBC; the former Fox News anchor settled a sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes for $20M last year  —  Gretchen Carlson, who settled a multi-million lawsuit late last year against former Fox News chief Roger Ailes …
Boris Kachka / Vulture:
Exploring why New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood was fired after a management search of his work email  —  Charles Isherwood woke up on the morning of February 3 with one of the best jobs in the country: second-string theater critic for the New York Times.
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Max Cea / Salon:
How an emphasis on web traffic and the recent departure of two music critics have affected The New York Times' dwindling jazz coverage  —  What changes in music coverage at The New York Times mean for jazz  —  Given the typical adversarial rendering of critics by artists — pedantic …
CNN:
Kurdish reporter Shifa Gardi killed in Iraq  —  (CNN)A reporter and anchor for an Iraqi Kurdish TV station was killed Saturday while working on the front lines as Iraqi forces battle ISIS for the city of Mosul.  —  Shifa Gardi, 30, a beloved journalist in a male-dominated profession …
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 …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Interview with Mashable CCO on how beats, quality over quantity, and focus have increased unique views by 78% YoY and video views by 452% YoY to 320M/month  —  Last year, Mashable laid off about two-dozen employees, cutting its politics and international reporters in a push for more video.
Spiegel Online:
Documents show Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, spied on the phones, faxes, and emails of foreign journalists over several years  —  Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, apparently spied on large numbers of foreign journalists overseas over the course of several years …
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Twitter opens up Periscope Producer to all users; the service lets broadcasters incorporate live video from sources other than their mobile device  —  After four months of being slowly released, Twitter announced that its Periscope Producer service is now available to everyone …
Lyz Lenz / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Texas Monthly's Pamela Colloff, whose true crime stories, oral histories, political profiles have earned her a reputation as a virtuoso of longform  —  Unemployed college graduate Pamela Colloff and her friend Margaret Brown in 1994 set off from New York on a road trip in a rusty Volvo with no real destination in mind.
Discussion: @olivianuzzi and @megreenwell
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
CNN, Politico, NYT, BuzzFeed, and others blocked from gaggle with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer; AP and Time declined to attend  —  Several news organizations boycotted the White House press gaggle this afternoon after the White House excluded CNN and other outlets from attending.
Jackie Spinner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Some politicians are avoiding reporters by using technology to interact directly with constituents  —  Illinois Rep. Peter Roskam at the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference.  Photo by Gage Skidmore.  —  AFTER DUCKING HIS CONSTITUENTS and protesters this month …
 
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