Mediagazer: Bloomberg announces it will merge Bloomberg Government with Bloomberg BNA, which focuses on legal, tax, and compliance topics (Sara Fischer/Axios)

11:05 AM ET, April 5, 2017

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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 …

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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 — The philanthropy established by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar will contribute $100 million to support investigative journalism …

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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 — Deal for 10 Thursday night games will be available only to Amazon Prime members — Amazon is ready for some football.

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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:

Behind the symbiosis between President Trump and CNN's Jeff Zucker, which thrives as the border between news and entertainment blurs — Inside the strange symbiosis between Jeff Zucker and the president he helped create. — At 3:58 on a recent Wednesday afternoon in Washington …

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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 …

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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:

Over 20 firms including Allstate, GlaxoSmithKline, and Bayer have pulled ads from Fox News' O'Reilly Factor amid sex assault allegations against Bill O'Reilly — O'Reilly accuser: ‘My voice is not for sale’ — Mercedes-Benz said Monday that it has “reassigned” its advertisements on …

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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:

Profile of MicroChip, who says he's a software developer in Utah and who built 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 …

Discussion: @richbarnett, @mat, @schreckreports, @murphymike, @xainth, @brendannyhan, @davidaxelrod, @bernstein, @pkafka, Boing Boing, Washington Post and Mediaite

Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:

Sources: a rift is opening at Breitbart between EIC Alex Marlow, who wants to take the site mainstream, and DC editor Matt Boyle, who remains anti-establishment — “There's no hierarchy, there's no office, there's no honest brokers. It's just controlled chaos."

Discussion: @vanityfair, @mattgertz, @jasfly and The Daily Beast

Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Sources: The Atlantic's White House correspondent Rosie Gray receives $350K advance from Harper Collins for book about Breitbart

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Sara Fischer / Axios:

Bloomberg announces it will merge Bloomberg Government with Bloomberg BNA, which focuses on legal, tax, and compliance topics — Bloomberg L.P. announced today it will merge its government policy business, Bloomberg Government (BGOV), with its legal and regulatory business arm, Bloomberg BNA …

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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.

Discussion: Mediaite and Deadline

Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:

Factba.se compiles every public communication from Donald Trump and the White House in an easily-searchable database — This easily searchable trove covers virtually every single communication that comes from Donald Trump himself across multiple social platforms, as well as from from the White House.

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 — Last summer Betsy O'Donovan, the incoming Executive Director of The Daily Tar Heel, wrote an essay on Medium charting the dire financial situation …

Discussion: @hidayj, @poynter, @brown_e_points, @mkramer, @johnnewsomnr, @nicktheandersen and @gracetatter

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 — The pro-Trump “Upside-Down” media is working hard to go mainstream, and it's doing so with help of a powerful ally: the White House.

Elisabeth Gamperl / Süddeutsche.de:

For some journalists, the Panama Papers project brought fame and success, but others faced death threats, legal action, and being fired — Throw them into the bay, or throw them into jail? Those were two possible replies to a poll set up by a user on Twitter.