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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Trump administration ramps up efforts to control media by giving preferential access to friendly outlets and excluding others — President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration “can get around the media when the media doesn't tell the truth, so I like that.”
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New York Times, Telegraph, Mediaite, @davidmpaine, @hunterw, @brianstelter, @mediaite, @oliverdarcy, The Week, PEN America and Washington Post
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson excludes pool reporter representing US networks from DMZ meeting, allowing a team from Fox News to be admitted instead — During his trip to the Korean Demilitarized Zone Friday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson excluded the pool reporter representing U.S. networks …
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The Korea Heald, Poynter, twitchy.com, The Huffington Post, @mlcalderone, @penamerican, @stevesilberman, @brucebartlett and @poynter
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Nick Ayers, a top adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, is a major investor in IJR, which got exclusive access to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson this week — Nick Ayers, a top adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, is an investor in Independent Journal Review, a social media-geared site for young conservatives.
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Washington Post, @nick_ayers, The Independent, PEN America and iMediaEthics
The Guardian:
Top UK executive for French marketing agency Havas, Paul Frampton, says agency is joining British government, others in pulling ads from Google and YouTube — Havas becomes first major global marketing company to pull entire ad spend after talks with tech company break down
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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Google UK managing director Ronan Harris says company is committed to updating its ad policies to give brands more control over where their ads appear — Google has responded to a growing number of brands' suspending their advertising from its services after finding their ads were appearing next to inappropriate and extremist content.
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Adweek, Google, Mashable, AdExchanger, New York Magazine, Digital Commerce 360, @charlesarthur and @glenngabe
Reuters:
Havas ad agency spokeswoman denies company is pulling ads from Google and YouTube; CEO Yannick Bollore says he was unaware of British unit's decision — French advertising group Havas denied on Friday that it would pull advertising from Google platforms, contradicting comments attributed …
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The Drum and @yannickbollore
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
FBI arrests person who allegedly tweeted seizure-inducing strobe at Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald — An arrest has been made three months after someone tweeted a seizure-inducing strobe at writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Kurt Eichenwald. The Dallas FBI confirmed the arrest to The Verge today …
Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider:
Chance the Rapper says Apple paid him $500K “plus a commercial” to exclusively stream his album Coloring Book on Apple Music for two weeks — After some criticism about the artist's integrity and independence, Chance the Rapper made a series of tweets and revealed …
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@chancetherapper, @chancetherapper, Forbes, The FADER, Engadget, Recode, Mashable, New York Times, hypebot, Business Insider, Billboard, The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and Consequence of Sound, more at Techmeme »
Roy Greenslade / The Guardian:
George Osborne's appointment as editor of the Evening Standard shows media owners' comfort with overt Tory partisanship, with disturbing democratic implications — George Osborne's appointment as editor of London Evening Standard confirms a trend with disturbing democratic implications
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BBC:
George Osborne, Conservative MP, has been appointed editor of the London Evening Standard; he intends to stay on as MP in new role
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The Guardian, The Guardian, New York Times, London Evening Standard, @jamesrbuk, Telegraph, Business Insider, The Drum, Press Gazette, BuzzFeed, @peston, @shashj, @georgeeaton, @jimwaterson, @fleetstreetfox, @iamtimdowling, Dailystar.co.uk, Telegraph, @jasoncowleyns, City A.M. and The Sun
Garett Sloane / Ad Age:
The Association of National Advertisers calls for independent ad data audits at Amazon, Foursquare, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat and Twitter — Amazon, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Foursquare were all put on notice by an advertiser group demanding they open up their walled gardens.
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Adweek, AgencySpy, @adage and @media_sense
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
37 publishers have signed up for CrossCheck, spearheaded by non-profit First Draft News, as newsrooms put aside competitiveness in favor of collaboration — Three-week-old fact-checking coalition CrossCheck is gaining steam. — A total of 37 publishers are signed up to the project, spearheaded by non-profit First Draft News.
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@digiday, BBC, us12.campaign-archive2.com, @dangillmor, @marklittlenews, @lheron, @mrjohncrowley, @shansquared and @fedecherubini
NBC News:
Interview with Breitbart EIC Alex Marlowe, who says that Steve Bannon reaches out “every so often” but “not as often as I would have expected” — As one of President Donald Trump's favorite news sources, Breitbart News has been called a lot of names, including …
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@nbcnews, @hadas_gold, @mlcalderone, @nbcinvestigates and @oliverdarcy
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