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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, BBC, and more protest US secretary of state's plan for no media on his trip to Asia — D.C. bureau chiefs from major news organizations, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal …
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Anonymous donor gives $1M to fund NYTimes.com subscriptions for students, joining 15.5K other donors to provide access to 1.3M students — The New York Times has shared some big numbers about the “Sponsor a Subscription” program that it launched in February: Thanks to contributions from 15,500 donors …
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The New York Times Company, New York Times, The Hill, Adweek, CNBC and Editor & Publisher
Corinne Grinapol / Adweek:
Recode hires Politico's Tony Romm, as a senior editor of policy and politics, and Bloomberg's Rani Molla, as the publication's first data editor — They'll be senior editor, policy and politics, and data editor, respectively — Recode EIC Dan Frommer announced two editor hires this morning …
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@karaswisher, @lock, @chrisgeidner, @edmundlee, @byersalex and Talking Biz News
Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
Condé Nast joins NBCU and Vox Media to sell ads across their combined digital properties and to compete against big ad platforms like Facebook and Google — Brands Can Now Buy Digital Inventory Across All Three Media Companies — Conde Nast is joining NBC Universal and Vox Media …
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Fortune, Fast Company, @tcarmody, @om, @bankoff, @mikeacase, @melissabell, @mikehadgis, @agolis, @dubois and @jpoggi
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
WikiLeaks' CIA document cache, which focuses on compromising devices and not apps, underscores the strength of Signal's and WhatsApp's encryption — On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks released an enormous cache of documents that it claimed detailed “C.I.A. hacking tools.”
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@dabeard, @amy_siskind, @sparrowmedia, @dangillmor and www.wnyc.org
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Interview with Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, who have sold a book on 2016 election to Penguin, to be published in 2018; HBO plans a miniseries based on book — On election night last year, the political journalists and analysts Mark Halperin and John Heilemann appeared on …
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Washington Post, Jezebel, Poynter, The Daily Caller, Vanity Fair, Hollywood Reporter, CBS News, The Guardian, Deadline, Business Insider and @jeremyscahill
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Streaming media software maker Plex opens Plex Cloud service to all Plex Pass subscribers — After a couple of stops and starts — and some concerns — media player software maker Plex is opening its online service known as Plex Cloud to all paying Plex users.
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Plex, AppleInsider, Android Police, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Engadget and MacRumors
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Sources: following a shakeup in editorial leadership, The Daily News has toned down its anti-Trump coverage because it was costing the paper subscriptions — For most of 2016, the New York Daily News was America's paper of opposition to Donald Trump. But in the months since the election …
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@gilbertcruz, @jayrosen_nyu, @mlcalderone, @mathewi, @isaacdovere, @timobrien, @ericboehlert, @richarddeitsch, @politico, @bgrueskin, @will_bunch, @joepompeo and @michaelkruse
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
A look at American Affairs, the newly launched quarterly journal dedicated to giving intellectual heft to Trumpism, founded by Julius Krein — William F. Buckley Jr. said he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard.
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The Baffler, bookforum.com, @ericathas, @brucebartlett, @freddydeknatel and @hamiltonnolan
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook to raise the allowed frequency of ads in Instant Articles, enabling insertion for every 250 words instead of every 350 words — Facebook's Instant Articles were always a bad deal for news outlets. While quick to load so they drove more readers, the hosted-on-Facebook mobile web format sterilized …
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Facebook Media and Adweek
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
A case study of Russia's RT, seen by some as a propaganda vehicle feeding the far right and viewed by staffers as a refreshing alternative to Western media — LONDON — The London newsroom and studios of RT, the television channel and website formerly known as Russia Today …
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Ad Age, @stevenleemyers, @alissanyt, @justinhendrix, @cliffordlevy, @gdebenedetti and @stephenswsj
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Sources: 21st Century Fox reaches $2.5M+ settlement with former Fox News contributor who alleged she was sexually assaulted by a Fox News Latino exec in 2015 — Last summer, as it wrapped up multiple settlements after the Roger Ailes sexual harassment scandal, Fox News and its parent company …
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Forbes, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Jezebel, CNNMoney, TVNewser, TVWeek.com, The Wrap, Variety and Deadline
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