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5:50 PM ET, February 28, 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  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump signed off on press secretary Sean Spicer's decision to check aides' cell phones to make certain …
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.
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Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube viewers worldwide watch more than 1B hours of video a day, a 10-fold increase since 2012, threatening to eclipse US TV viewership
Bérénice Magistretti / VentureBeat:
AWS investigating S3 issues affecting US-EAST-1 region of data centers in northern Virginia, affecting Business Insider, Medium, Time Inc., News Corp, more  —  Fortscale, which uses machine learning and big data analytics to detect malicious user behaviour, announced today a funding round of $7 million.
Veit Medick / Spiegel Online:
Inside Alex Jones' media empire, which ardently supports Trump and often spreads false propaganda to aid his administration  —  Right-wing radio host Alex Jones is America's top conspiracy theorist.  He has millions of listeners, but his most powerful one happens to be the president of the United States.
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Warren Buffett says the WSJ and NYT are the only two papers with an assured future, as they have a proven model for earning revenue from digital  —  Buffett: These two newspapers will likely survive...  Warren Buffett thinks only two newspapers are certain to survive the industry's hugely difficult climate …
Amanda Kludt / Eater:
Vox's foodie travel site, Eater, will expand to London later this spring  —  Eater London rumblings, a standing steakhouse, and more weekly restaurant intel from Eater's editor-in-chief … Note From the Road:  —  We plan to launch Eater London — a dream of mine for years …
Rossalyn Warren / The Guardian:
In Burundi, a secret network of journalists work covertly, reporting on the country's dictator, Pierre Nkurunziza, who dismisses negative stories as “fake news”  —  Exiled journalists tell of how decades of balanced post-conflict reporting is being dismantled by President Nkurunziza
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
Facebook's Insights no longer has video metric for views lasting 30+ seconds, replacing it with a metric for views of 10 or more seconds watched  —  Facebook has removed a benchmark metric that allows publishers to see how many video views lasted for 30 seconds or longer.
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Huffington Post is launching The Tea, a weekly email newsletter targeted at female Gen Z readers, with the goal of driving 25K subscribers in next three months  —  To introduce itself to its next generation of readers, the Huffington Post is going straight for their inboxes.
 
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