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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:
Documents sent to journalists linking ExxonMobil to Trump via a $1.6B bank transfer are fake and part of a 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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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
The intense search for a smoking gun tying Trump to Russia invites confirmation bias, forgeries, and fantasy — Fantasy, confirmation bias, and forgeries in the reaction to Trump. — BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief — The strange tale published today by BuzzFeed News of anti-Trump activists duped …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Reporters formally object after Tillerson takes only one reporter on Asia trip; Tillerson said plane was too small but flight was on a Boeing 737-sized aircraft — The president is suddenly press-shy — State Department reporters are strongly protesting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's decision …
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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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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Behind Genius' shift from web annotations to becoming a video-focused media company, after laying off a quarter of its staff last month — Genius, which raised $56.9 million on the promise that it would one day annotate the entire internet, has been losing its minds.
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Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
American Media CEO David Pecker announces purchase of US Weekly from Wenner Media; about 45 staffers expected to re-interview for jobs as early as Friday — Wenner Media, the owner of Rolling Stone and Men's Journal, has sold the magazine to American Media Inc.
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The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, min Online and TheStreet.com
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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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.
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