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Sources: Donald Trump signed off on Spicer's plan to check White Houses aides' phone 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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@michaelluo, SPLICETODAY.com, Media Matters for America and Axios
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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@raju, @wfederman, @elanazak, @alexmartinwsj, @moorehn, @jackmarshall, @editorialiste and Fortune
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Jason Bellini / Wall Street Journal:
New WSJ/NBC News poll: 51% of 1000 Americans polled rate the media as too critical of Trump, 41% say it has been fair, and 6% say it hasn't been critical enough — A large minority believes coverage of the president has been fair and objective, new WSJ/NBC News poll finds
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 — Google unit posts 10-fold increase in viewership since 2012, boosted by algorithms personalizing user lineups — YouTube viewers world-wide …
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Mozilla buys Pocket, its first acquisition, and says the read-it-later service will continue operating as an independent subsidiary — From browser extension to acquisition — Mozilla has acquired Pocket, a kind of DVR for the internet, for an undisclosed sum.
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The Mozilla Blog, Pocket Blog, BetaNews, MediaNama, Business Insider, Fast Company, Digital Trends, GeekWire, Mashable, ZDNet, Fortune, MacRumors, MacStories, VentureBeat, Recode, Android Police, @jcstearns, The Loop, @caseynewton, @kunalcagarwal, @joshconstine, @caseynewton, @jamieartkin and @benpopper
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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@frankylitics
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
New York Times:
Fox News' host Bill O'Reilly says guest falsely identified as Swedish national security adviser should not have appeared on the show — The Fox News host Bill O'Reilly distanced himself on Monday from a guest his show falsely identified last week as a “Swedish defense and national security adviser …
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@keitholbermann, @nytimes, @cnn, New York Times, @rudnit, @tinadupuy, @jamie_weinstein and @exlarson
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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@mekosoff and @jackmarshall
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
A look at StopFake News, a weekly Ukrainian TV show that debunks fake news, particularly factual errors in Russian propaganda — KIEV, Ukraine — The studio lights dim, and the anchor taps a stack of papers on her desk and directs a steely gaze toward the television cameras.
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@maitlis, @anneapplebaum, @karaszpalko, @christopherjm, @michaeldweiss, @nytimesworld and PEN America
Lauren Johnson / Adweek:
AOL partners with Adsquare to offer its advertisers better targeting with access to location, mobile ID, and retail purchase data of 360M users — Global partnership covers 12 markets — As part of AOL's ongoing work to build a mobile advertising business that rivals Facebook and Google …
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