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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 …
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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The New Yorker will not attend White House briefings until the exclusion of some news outlets including CNN and BuzzFeed is ended, says editor David Remnick — Even before the White House press corps was born—in 1896, when newspapers assigned reporters to a table outside the office …
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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
YouTube viewers worldwide watch more than 1B hours of video a day, a 10-fold increase since 2012, threatening to eclipse US TV viewership
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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
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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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