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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)


Google updates ad policies giving more control over ad placement after UK backlash, creates new brand safety tools, and expands hate speech definitions — After U.K. criticism, company creates new brand safety tools — Google also adds refugees to class protected from hate speech
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Sources: FBI's Russian-influence probe includes a look at the role played by far-right news sites during Trump campaign — WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are examining whether far-right news sites played any role last year in a Russian cyber operation that dramatically widened …
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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.
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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.
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Marketing software provider Cision, which owns PR Newswire, Gorkana, and Help a Reporter Out, will go public as part of a merger with Capital Acquisition — Public relations software provider Cision said it would go public as part of a merger with a blank-check company …
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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 …
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The AP and RCFP are appealing a recently rejected lawsuit demanding more details when an FBI agent impersonated a journalist — WASHINGTON (AP) — The young hacker was told in no uncertain terms: You are safe with me. — “I am not trying to find out your true identity,” …


Source: American Media Inc. to lay off 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 .
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George Osborne defends role as editor of London Evening Standard, tells MPs that “Parliament is enhanced when we have people from all walks of life” in debate — Under-fire former chancellor tells fellow MPs ‘parliament is enhanced when we have people from all walks of life’


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.


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.
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