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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Maddow's teasing of Trump tax return release, in bid to boost ratings, backfires as White House distributes the document in question during show — NBC coined the slogan “Must-See TV” more than two decades ago; tonight, MSNBC invented “hurry-up-and-wait” TV.
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Donald J. Trump / @realdonaldtrump:
In a tweet, Trump questions tax return story on Maddow, calls it “fake news”, even though the White House confirmed the story by distributing the document — Does anybody really believe that a reporter, who nobody ever heard of, “went to his mailbox” and found my tax returns? @NBCNews FAKE NEWS!
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The Wrap, Washington Post, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Mediaite, TVNewser, New York Times, @jaketapper, CBS Philly, @katyturnbc, @davidcayj, The Week and AOL
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
The journalist who received Trump's 2005 tax return, Pulitzer award-winning reporter David Cay Johnston, believes POTUS himself may be the source — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston says he received two pages from the 2005 document in the mail from an unknown source.
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CNNMoney, Mediaite, @michaelcohen212, TVNewser, Deadline, @joenbc, Business Insider, @bobbierman, @joenbc, Washington Post, The Week and New York Times
BuzzFeed:
Docs sent to journalists linking ExxonMobil to Trump via a $1.6B bank transfer are fake, part of a broader trend of elaborate scams designed to fool reporters — In the third week of — January, an Israeli named Yoni Ariel flew from Tel Aviv to Rome carrying $9,000 in cash on a secret mission to bring down Donald Trump.
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@ggreenwald, @jimwaterson and @buzzfeedben
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Erin McPike, White House correspondent for the Independent Journal Review, lands only press spot on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's trip to Asia — Erin McPike, the White House correspondent for the Independent Journal Review, was the only journalist to have a seat on the trip.
Ken Doctor / TheStreet.com:
Sources: American Media, owner of the National Enquirer, is likely to buy Us Weekly as soon as this week for close to $100M as Tronc pulls out of deal — At this moment in matrimonial M&A, TroncUs has split, but the latter isn't content with the single life.
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@alexckaufman, Vanity Fair, @kdoctor, @kdoctor, New York Post, Adweek and Los Angeles Business …
Kari Howard / Nieman Storyboard:
Q&A with Diarmid Mogg, the Scottish creator of Small Town Noir, a website unearthing old mugshots from a Pennsylvanian town and the stories behind them — The Scotsman's website is a rabbit hole of midcentury mug shots and the stories of the everyday people of a Pennsylvania town at probably the worst moment in their lives
Meg Watson / Junkee:
Serial's first spinoff podcast, S-Town, will launch with all episodes at once on March 28 — Here we go, again! The team behind Serial — Sarah Koenig, Julie Snyder, and Ira Glass — have just released details for the first of three new spinoffs from the landmark podcast.
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Metro.co.uk, USA Today, NME, JOE.co.uk, Time Out London, The Forward, Huffington Post Australia … and Mashable
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News says it let Kelly out of her contract on March 9, but a spokesperson for the anchor says they're still negotiating her termination agreement — Is Megyn Kelly free to work for NBC News or isn't she? According to Fox News Channel, Kelly no longer has ties to the 21st Century Fox owned cable-news outlet.
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Wall Street Journal
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Clifton Leaf named editor-in-chief of Fortune magazine, Time Inc.'s Chief Content Officer Alan Murray adds President to his title, Lashinsky named exec editor — Clifton Leaf, currently the deputy editor, has been named editor in chief of Fortune magazine.
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Fortune and @talkingbiznews
RT:
Russia Today launches fact-checking project, FakeCheck, cites examples of “anti-Russian and anti-Assad propaganda” like WaPo power grid hack story — In a post-truth world, it's sometimes hard to distinguish between what is real and what is fake news.
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@jamesrbuk, @craigsilverman and @twlldun
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Reuters:
Judge orders ABC to face trial in $5.7B “pink slime” defamation lawsuit brought by Beef Products Inc., but drops Diane Sawyer as a defendant — A South Dakota state judge has ordered ABC Broadcasting to face a potential $5.7 billion defamation lawsuit claiming it damaged Beef Products Inc …
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Wall Street Journal, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, @nicknotned, Sioux City Journal and Talking Biz News
Melissa Etehad / Los Angeles Times:
Once a channel for political expression in Iran, Telegram now seen by some as censorship tool; in one province, 80 channels shut down, 32 users arrested in Jan. — This picture taken on Sept. 15, 2016, in Paris shows an illustration of the Telegram messenger application on a smartphone.
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@melissaetehad and @mdubowitz
Alan Travis / The Guardian:
MPs grill representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google over online hate speech and other offensive material — Committee tells Twitter, Facebook and others they should get tough on online abuse, with one MP accusing them of ‘commercial prostitution’ — Social media companies including …
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BBC and Daily Mail
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