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6:50 AM ET, March 13, 2017

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Sources say the office of fired US attorney Preet Bharara is investigating Fox News, and Ailes' personal lawyer is reportedly on shortlist to replace Bharara  —  Throughout his six-decade career working on three continents, Rupert Murdoch has used his media properties to advance the prospects …
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Caitlin McGarry / PCWorld:
In SXSW interview Nick Denton talks about how Gawker's Hogan coverage could have been better and the importance of conversation-driven platforms to media  —  “Facebook makes me despise many of my friends and Twitter makes me hate the rest of the world," Gawker founder Nick Denton said.
Washington Post:
Records show no fixed address for Steve Bannon as he built Breitbart; 2013 salary was listed as $750K on rental application, plus $270K from Arc Entertainment  —  In the three years before he became Donald Trump's chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon lived as a virtual nomad in a quest to build a populist political insurgency.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The presence of new partisan media organizations in the White House press pool raises questions about pool's reliability  —  In an age of partisan media, the lines between “partisan” and “media” can sometimes blur.  —  Case in point: The pool reporter covering Vice President Pence on Thursday …
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Rob Bluey / The Daily Signal:
The Heritage Foundation's The Daily Signal says it “won't be bullied” after The Washington Post writes about its reporter providing press pool reports  —  “What's a legitimate news outlet?”  —  Apparently not The Daily Signal, if you believe the self-proclaimed arbiters of journalism who represent the “mainstream” media.
Discussion: @robertbluey
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Lies aided by right-wing hyperpartisan media outlets require watchdogging, fact-checking, and self-examination by mainstream newsrooms  —  To save Tinkerbell, all you had to do was clap your hands and really, really believe in fairies.  —  To send a conspiracy theory on its vicious way around the world …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Fox News Radio reporter Jon Decker, a member of WHCA board, confronts Gateway Pundit staffer Lucian Wintrich in WH press room; Wintrich claims he was assaulted
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook will stream at least 22 live MLS matches in 2017 in English, through deal with MLS and Univision Deportes  —  As competition in the live streaming space heats up, Facebook has scored a significant deal that will allow it to stream at least 22 live Major League Soccer matches on its social network.
Zach Schonfeld / Newsweek:
Profile of Sarah Pappalardo and Beth Newell, founders of satirical feminist site Reductress, which launched in 2013 and now draws about 1M unique views a month  —  CULTURE REDUCTRESS MEDIA JOURNALISM SATIRE  —  The internet's best satire site is run by two 30-somethings in an office the size of a walk-in closet.
Eric Johnson / Recode:
Interview with new Huffington Post EIC Lydia Polgreen, on reaching Trump voters, expanding newsroom diversity, preserving the site's iconic splash, and more  —  Lydia Polgreen, who took over for Arianna Huffington late last year, wants to help Trump supporters and opponents see eye to eye.
Alleen Brown / The Intercept:
Hard-to-verify “alt” government social media accounts let dissenting federal employees share truth, but necessary anonymity can fuel profiteering by scammers  —  In early November, shortly after Donald Trump was elected president, a career scientist working for the federal Interior …
Jackie Spinner / Columbia Journalism Review:
How the Indy Star navigated a public records minefield to break its Pence email story  —  Vice President Mike Pence at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference.  Photo by Michael Vadon.  —  THE REVELATION THAT VICE PRESIDENT Mike Pence used a private AOL.com email address …
Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Las Vegas gossip columnist Norm Clarke, who retired from the Review-Journal last year and recently began writing for Vegas Sports Information Network  —  FOR 17 YEARS, GOSSIP IN LAS VEGAS wasn't gossip for long.  Until Norm Clarke retired from the Review-Journal last summer …
Discussion: VSiN and Adweek
 
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Los Angeles Times:
The $1B deal to sell Dick Clark Productions, producers of Golden Globes and more, to China's Dalian Wanda Group falls through
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at the Arctic Times Project, a nonprofit covering global warming in the Arctic, publishing stories in existing outlets instead of launching its own
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Following buyouts, Postmedia to lay off 54 staffers at Vancouver Sun and Province around April 8, according to memo to staff
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Profile of Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, a friend of Trump who has emerged over the past few weeks as one of the president's most prominent unofficial spokesmen
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Political journalism, ripe for groupthink, produced a failure of the “wisdom of crowds” during the election, which led to an underestimation of Trump's chances