Top News:
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Sources: Fox News analyst Napolitano suspended indefinitely after his unverified claims that British spies wiretapped Trump at behest of Obama — Judge Andrew Napolitano, the senior judicial analyst for Fox News, is being kept off the air indefinitely. (Jim Watson / AFP/Getty Images)
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Robert B. Silvers, the editor and founder of The New York Review of Books, has died at 87 — NEW YORK (AP) — Robert B. Silvers, the longtime head of The New York Review of Books, has died. He was 87. — Silvers died Monday morning at his home in Manhattan after a brief illness …
Discussion:
@nybooks, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, @freedland, @paulkrugman, @freemanreads, @nickkristof, @jamesfallows, @kbandersen, @rickhertzberg, @simon_schama, @kenroth, @ariannahuff, @ezraklein, @sarahw, @billmckibben, NPR, Vulture, Legacy.com, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Longreads, @parisreview, @humanitiesmag, @pamelapaulnyt, @pamelapaulnyt, @msrachelcooke, @patricknathan and @heerjeet
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
FBI's Russian-influence probe includes a look at far-right news sites — WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are examining whether far-right news sites played any role last year in a Russian cyber operation that dramatically widened the reach of news stories — some fictional …
Discussion:
Media Matters for America and The Hill
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
The Blaze confirms that Tomi Lahren's show will be off air for a week, after Lahren called anti-abortion conservatives hypocrites — Glenn Beck in 100 Seconds — Tomi Lahren's ascent to conservative media stardom has been propelled by a contentious spirit that is on full display whenever she takes aim at her political adversaries.
Discussion:
Glenn Beck, The Wrap, The Daily Caller, Refinery29, Variety, @tomkludt, Mediaite, The Tab, USA Today, Business Insider, Newser, Hollywood Life, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, IJR and Washington Post
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Association of Independents in Radio study: how 16 producers embedded with 15 public media orgs covered underserved communities via Localore's Finding America — New reports look at the impact of AIR's Localore Finding America project, which embedded independent producers at public media stations around the country.
Discussion:
MediaShift
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
YouTube investigating complaints that parental controls on site are filtering out content from LGBT creators — YouTube said on Sunday that it was investigating the simmering complaints by some users that its family-friendly “restricted mode” wrongly filters out some lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender videos.
Discussion:
The Wrap, @ytcreators, @ytcreators, The FADER, The Guardian, Engadget, Washington Post, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, Softpedia News, Mashable, BetaNews, Fortune, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Junkee, The Verge and Hollywood Life
Rob Davies / The Guardian:
Google's European chief Matt Brittin apologizes for ads placed over extremist content — Matt Brittin says company ‘needs to do more’ but declines to say whether it will actively seek out inappropriate material — Google's European chief has publicly apologised to consumers and advertisers …
Discussion:
Bloomberg, Inside AdWords, Forbes, eMarketer and Newsroom Posts, BBC, Business Insider, Variety, Recode, @byrobdavies and Wall Street Journal
WWD:
Source: American Media Inc. to layoff about 100 people from US Weekly early next week after its acquisition of the publication — The bulk of Us Weekly's layoffs are expected to occur next week, following the glossy's sale to AMI. — The Feb. 6 cover of Us Weekly .
Discussion:
Media Wire Daily
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Politico rolls out a second Playbook, an afternoon newsletter called Playbook Power Briefing, as it adapts to a speedier DC news cycle — The rhythm of Washington, D.C. has been thrown off in recent months as President Trump has refined his ability to create entire news cycles with a series of tweets dashed off before breakfast.
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Sources: The Guardian's US office has scrapped a plan to move into a Kushner-owned building in Brooklyn after complaints from the newsroom — Reporters feared that the next Edward Snowden might not want to leak to The Guardian if it was headquartered in a building linked to the president's son-in-law.
Discussion:
@lisatozzi, @miriamelder, @dangillmor, @perlberg and @aleksnotalex
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Studio Propagate partners with Cheddar to tailor its content to overseas audience, starting with a 45-minute weekly show called Cheddar World — Propagate, the independent studio run by Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens, has cut a deal with digital network Cheddar to reformat …
Discussion:
Media Wire Daily
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Time and People magazine cancel their WHCD party; Time will still attend dinner, while People will make a donation to the WHCA in lieu of tables — Time and People magazine will not hold their glitzy, celebrity-filled party the night before the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the magazines confirmed.
Discussion:
@ahmalcolm, @alexsteigrad, @taylorlorenz and WWD