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12:10 AM ET, April 14, 2017

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Sources: Murdochs mull O'Reilly's future at Fox News as they await probe results; ousting him may cause financial loss, but keeping him may damage reputation — Bill O'Reilly left Fox News this week for a long-planned vacation to Italy and the Vatican, with his fate in the hands …

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, Media Matters for America, BuzzFeed, The Week, Mediaite, @slpng_giants, @drpatfarrell, Bloomberg, @woodleyipt and MediaFile

Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Dana Perino, who has been filling in on multiple shows, is emerging as a go-to host for Fox News during a tumultuous period at the network

Discussion: @maxwelltani, @oliverdarcy and @brettlogiurato

Hadas Gold / Politico:
Bill O'Reilly has quietly cut his schedule to four days a week; a spin-off with rotating hosts called “Friday Factor” is planned but not announced, source says

Discussion: Deadline, Media Matters for America, @ericboehlert, @yashar, @hadas_gold, @alexweprin and @brianstelter

Ted Johnson / Variety:

FCC spectrum auction ends, with 175 TV stations getting payouts of up to $304M each; 957 stations will get new channel assignments — The FCC has closed a first-of-its-kind auction of broadcast airwaves that will see a shakeup in channel lineups in many markets, with stations reaping a total …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Federal Communications …, Forbes, The Hill, Current, @morganatopb, Radio & Television …, @katyonthehill, @katyonthehill, Globe and Mail, @tewheels, Engadget, Broadcasting & Cable, Reuters, Deadline, Bloomberg and The Verge, more at Techmeme »

Elizabeth Weise / USA Today:

Facebook rolling out tech changes using patterns to find fake accounts that can spread misinformation, malware, and falsely boost page rankings — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is ramping up efforts to kill off sham accounts used to spread fake news, pass along malware and falsely boost page rankings …

Discussion: Facebook, Reuters and MediaNama, more at Techmeme »

Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:

Instagram says Stories has 200M daily active users, passing 161M DAUs Snapchat reported in S1; update today brings selfie stickers, pinning stickers to videos — Instagram is seeing continued growth in the number of people using its Snapchat Stories-like feature.

Discussion: Instagram Blog, Engadget, BGR, CNBC, Tubefilter, Daily Mail, Business Insider, MacRumors, Vanity Fair, Forbes, 9to5Mac, Variety, Fortune, Android Police, CNET, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, The Verge and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:

CIA Director Mike Pompeo calls WikiLeaks a “hostile intelligence service” aided by Russia and labels founder Julian Assange a fraud — The self-described transparency organization WikiLeaks is a “non-state, hostile intelligence service” that is often “abetted by state actors like Russia …

Discussion: @jessicaschulb, New York Times, TechCrunch, ThinkProgress, satPRnews, @emptywheel, BuzzFeed, @igorvolsky, Bloomberg, @emptywheel, @emptywheel, Politico and The Hill

Peter Sterne / Politico:

Source: Tribune Media scraps plans for new national news site Tribune.com ahead of April 25 rollout and lays off more than 18 employees — The company also scrapped plans to relaunch Television Without Pity — On April 25, Tribune Media planned to launch a new national news site …

Discussion: @rosiegray, Variety, Adweek, @jbenton, The Wrap, @joepompeo, @samueloakford, @ylichterman, @megancarpentier, Broadcasting & Cable, @aaschapiro, @katierogers and @petersterne

Lauren Johnson / Adweek:

Condé Nast is hiring a Snapchat team as GQ, Wired, and Self magazine begin publishing weekly editions to Discover this month — Wired, GQ and Self get channels — Condé Nast is hoping to find millennials on Snapchat. After inking a deal with Snapchat to create stories …

Discussion: Tubefilter

Daniel Roberts / Yahoo! Finance: Document shows Condé Nast's Vanity Fair plans a paywall in the next two to six months, possibly similar to The New Yorker's

Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:

A new survey from BuzzFeed News and Ipsos Public Affairs found that 54% of American adults trust news they see on Facebook “only a little” or “not at all” — Facebook is an increasingly important source of news for American adults, but they can't seem to agree …

Discussion: Nieman Lab, @craigsilverman, The Wrap, @jason_kint, @snorthfield45, @lisatozzi, @dabeard, @craigsilverman and @craigsilverman, Thanks:@steverubel

Ingrid Cobben / Nieman Lab:

French startup Brut, which creates video distributed on Facebook and other platforms, partners with public broadcaster France Télévisions and eyes US expansion — Brut — think a French version of NowThis — has had success reaching a younger demographic and is now partnering …

Discussion: @thenewschick

Tamara Abraham / The Business of Fashion:

Saudi princess Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz has been fired from her role as EIC of Vogue Arabia; it is understood that a new editor has already been appointed — The Saudi princess has confirmed that she was fired as editor-in-chief of Vogue Arabia after only two issues.

Discussion: Jezebel, Daily Mail, Fashionista, New York Magazine, @stuartemmrichny, VOGUE India, @davidtusing, Arabian Business and @bof

Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:

The Storm Lake Times' Pulitzer win highlights the decline of family newspapers; just 15% of America's daily newspaper circulation is under independent control — Consolidation has left just 15% of America's daily newspaper circulation under independent control

Discussion: @joepompeo, @wsj and @lalpert1

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Sources: Hulu's live TV service will likely cost $39.99 per month, with ads and access to Hulu's on-demand library — The pricing for Hulu's live TV service, a competitor with cable television - as well as a host of other streaming TV services like Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, DirecTV NOW …

Discussion: VideoInk - Medium, Hulu, idropnews.com, MacRumors, Tubefilter, The Verge, 9to5Mac and Motherboard, more at Techmeme »

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