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6:55 PM ET, April 5, 2017

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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump defends Bill O'Reilly amid sex assault claims: “I don't think Bill did anything wrong”  —  President Donald Trump called Bill O'Reilly a “good person” who did nothing wrong in an interview Wednesday with The New York Times, jumping to the defense of one of his most vocal …
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
As the number of advertisers who have dropped The O'Reilly Factor reaches more than 30, Bill O'Reilly and Fox News remain quiet  —  Brown: Time for Fox to clean shop  —  Bill O'Reilly's future at Fox News is the number one topic among Manhattan media executives, entertainment agents and journalists.
Mará Rose Williams / Kansas City Star:
How student reporters at a Kansas high school dug into the background of a new principal and found questionable credentials, causing her to resign  —  Days after student reporters at Pittsburg High School in Kansas dug into the background of their newly hired principal and found questionable credentials …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Verizon is primed to become ad-tracking giant and take full advantage of an impotent FCC, using consumer data without permission, as it's done with supercookies  —  Zombie adtech is coming to kill Google  —  Two seemingly unrelated things happened Monday that actually point directly at the future of the internet:
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Washington Post:
FCC's Ajit Pai and FTC's Maureen Ohlhausen on why FCC's ISP privacy rules were bad, and how FTC's authority to police ISPs' privacy practices will be restored  —  Ajit Pai is chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.  Maureen Ohlhausen is acting chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Russia's Sputnik hires former Breitbart News reporter Lee Stranahan to launch a radio show  —  A former Breitbart News writer is launching a radio show for Russian propaganda network Sputnik.  —  “I'm on the Russian payroll now, when you work at Sputnik you're being paid by the Russians …
Discussion: @rosiegray and @mlcalderone
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
YouTube's $35/mo TV streaming service debuts in Los Angeles, NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Bay area, with 4 major networks, 40+ cable channels  —  Young people in the United States have already made the switch from traditional television to streaming services.
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Profile of MicroChip, who claims he's a software developer in Utah leading a pro-Trump bot-infested Twitter network that sways trending topics  —  At 7:23 on Sunday evening, the conservative internet personality Mike Cernovich tweeted that former national security adviser Susan Rice had requested the …
Politico:
Docs show Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch copied structure and language used by others in book, failed to cite sources; White House calls it a “false attack”  —  The White House rejects any suggestion of impropriety.  —  Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch copied the structure …
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Adblock Plus parent company Eyeo says it has acquired Sweden-based micropayment service Flattr  —  Eyeo, the Germany-based company behind perennially popular adblocking service Adblock Plus, has today announced that it has acquired Flattr, a micropayment and microdonation service headquartered in Sweden.
Jim Brady / ESPN:
ESPN issues new guidelines that recommend connecting political discussions to sports whenever possible  —  ESPN has issued new political and election guidelines for its employees that, while allowing for political discussion on the network's platforms, recommend connecting those comments to sports whenever possible.
David Lieberman / Deadline:
MGM agrees to pay $1.03B for Viacom's 49.8% and Lionsgate's 31.2% stakes in Epix; MGM will become the sole owner of the premium entertainment network  —  Here's the release, just out.  More shortly:  —  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ("MGM"), Viacom Inc. (Nasdaq: VIAB, VIA), ("Viacom") and Lionsgate …
 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Bloomberg announces it will merge Bloomberg Government with Bloomberg BNA, which focuses on legal, tax, and compliance topics
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Factba.se compiles every public communication from Donald Trump and the White House in an easily-searchable database
Melody Kramer / Poynter:
Q&A with Betsy O'Donovan, executive director of student paper The Daily Tar Heel, on adapting to smaller digital ad revenue and finding fellowships
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NFL and Amazon strike $50M deal to stream 10 Thursday night games to Prime members; price is five times that of NFL's agreement with Twitter last year
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Omidyar Foundation to give $100M over 3 years to support investigative journalism, fight misinformation, and counteract hate speech, with $4.5M going to ICIJ
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
How Trump insiders reward pro-Trump media figures including Mike Cernovich, who earlier spread Pizzagate rumors and false theories of a Hillary Clinton illness
Micah Singleton / The Verge:
Spotify signs new licensing agreement with Universal Music Group, will restrict new albums from Universal artists to its premium service for up to two weeks