Mediagazer: 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 (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)

1:40 PM ET, March 15, 2017

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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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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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Josh Meyer / Politico:

Profile of David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer award-winning reporter who received Trump's 2005 tax return in the mail and is well known on the tax beat — Angered by the publication of his 2005 tax returns, President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused NBC News of broadcasting “FAKE NEWS,” …

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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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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.

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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.

Discussion: Fortune, Media Wire Daily and @talkingbiznews

Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

The Boston Globe says Facebook Messenger offers the easiest and cheapest way to send news notifications to mobile devices, sees 80% open rate in one week — The Boston Globe, like many publishers, wants to send breaking news notifications directly to people's phones.

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.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

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.

Discussion: @alexckaufman, Vanity Fair, @kdoctor, @kdoctor, New York Post, Adweek and Los Angeles Business …

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.

Discussion: @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 …

Discussion: BBC and Daily Mail

Kelly Fiveash / Ars Technica UK:
Facebook says moderation “was not working” in response to BBC probe of sexualized photos of children on FB, where 82 of 100 reported posts were not removed

Discussion: RT, The Guardian and BuzzFeed, more at Techmeme »

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