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5:50 AM ET, March 1, 2017

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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
President Trump and his aides condemn anonymous leaks to reporters, unless the leaks come from themselves  —  President Trump and his aides despise and condemn anonymous leaks to reporters.  —  Except, of course, when they are the ones doing the leaking.  —  On the"Fox & Friends" …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Sean Spicer was source of story about a Politico reporter laughing at the death of a Navy SEAL, after the reporter published an unflattering anecdote about him  —  Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt paid a certain price for his Sunday scoop about White House press secretary Sean Spicer's treatment …
CNN:
Sources: President Trump signed off on Spicer's plan to check White House aides' phones as part of leaks investigation, to identify those talking to press
Peter Kafka / Recode:
YouTube debuts YouTube TV, a $35/month service including broadcast networks, about 30 cable channels, cloud DVR with unlimited storage, personal recommendations  —  Meet YouTube TV.  —  YouTube used to be the place you could watch almost anything you wanted, for free.
Nat Levy / GeekWire:
AWS says it has fixed cloud storage issues affecting northern Virginia data centers, which affected some media sites  —  This is a developing story.  We will update it as more information becomes available.  —  UPDATE: 2:15 p.m.: Amazon Web Services has fixed all the issues related to the cloud storage outage Tuesday.
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Penguin Random House to publish books by Barack and Michelle Obama, at a price sources say likely stretches to “tens of millions”  —  Penguin Random House will publish forthcoming books by former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, the former first lady …
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
SoundCloud debuts SoundCloud Go $4.99/month plan with 120M tracks ad free, will still offer its SoundCloud Go+ $9.99/month plan, which offers 150M tracks  —  SoundCloud has rebooted its paid membership plan with a new budget option less than a year after it launched.
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
Emmis sells Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and Orange Coast magazines to Hour Media Group; LA mag's EIC and editor-at-large to leave but Orange Coast will keep staff  —  Boom.  The long and award-winning Emmis era at Los Angeles Magazine came to a crashing end Tuesday when the magazine was sold to a publisher of magazines in Detroit.
Jackie Strause / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN will attend the White House Correspondents Dinner and will bring journalism students as its guests instead of celebrities  —  “We stand with the WHCA 100 percent,” said the network in a statement shortly after President Trump explained why he plans to skip the annual “Nerd Prom.”
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Time Inc. asks five suitors, including Meredith Corp. and an investor group led by Edgar Bronfman Jr., to submit acquisition offers by next week  —  Five companies said to express interest in buying all of Time  —  Board will decide whether to proceed with sale based on offers
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
As Amazon cuts affiliate revenue, questions arise for outlets like Wirecutter, Gizmodo Media, and smaller sites that count on link income  —  Amazon is a powerful partner, but as book publishers have learned, it can also be a fickle one.  —  When digital advertising rates are falling …
Broadcasting & Cable:
Sen. Dick Durbin tells broadcasters that Trump's attacks on media mirror Soviet tactics in the Baltics, lays out three-part plan to protect journalists  —  Says as among most trusted outlets, they must report ‘without fear or favor’  —  Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) took aim …
 
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