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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 — Amid the turmoil of the Fox News lineup this year, one host has become a go-to in multiple roles for the network: Dana Perino.
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Media Matters for America, @maxwelltani, @oliverdarcy and @brettlogiurato
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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
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
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Media Matters for America, Deadline, @ericboehlert, @yashar, @hadas_gold, @alexweprin and @brianstelter
New York Times:
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
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
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Media Matters for America, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, BuzzFeed, The Week, Mediaite, @slpng_giants, @drpatfarrell, @woodleyipt, Bloomberg, MediaFile and Gothamist
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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Adweek, @rosiegray, Variety, @jbenton, @joepompeo, @samueloakford, The Wrap, @ylichterman, Broadcasting & Cable, @megancarpentier, @aaschapiro, @katierogers and @petersterne
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 …
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Nieman Lab, @craigsilverman, @jason_kint, @snorthfield45, The Wrap, @lisatozzi, @dabeard, @craigsilverman and @craigsilverman, Thanks:@steverubel
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.
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Jezebel, Daily Mail, Fashionista, @stuartemmrichny, VOGUE India, @davidtusing, Arabian Business, @bof and New York Magazine
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.
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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 …
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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
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@joepompeo, @wsj and @lalpert1
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 …
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@thenewschick
Stefan Nicola / Bloomberg:
Facebook is publishing full-page ads in Germany's biggest papers advising readers how to detect fake news, amid mounting government pressure to curb its spread — Angela Merkel pressuring social media company to do more — Facebook Inc. published full-page ads in Germany's biggest …
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@stephaniebodoni
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Mic hires Jonathan Carson, former Vevo and Nielsen exec, as president amid video push; he starts on April 17 after serving as an adviser for last nine months — Mic, the youth-skewing digital news and lifestyle media startup, has hired Jonathan Carson — former chief revenue officer of Vevo …
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@xpangler, @caltchek and @jacobdhorowitz
Montreal Gazette:
The Chronicle Herald has bought the newspaper and publishing assets of Transcontinental Media in Atlantic Canada, creating a new company, SaltWire Network — HALIFAX — Canada's oldest independent newspaper has bought the newspaper and publishing assets of Transcontinental Media in Atlantic Canada.
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