Mediagazer: Source: Tribune Media scraps plans for new national news site Tribune.com ahead of April 25 rollout and lays off more than 18 employees (Peter Sterne/Politico)

5:25 PM ET, April 13, 2017

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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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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 — Fox News plans a ‘Friday Factor’ spinoff with rotating hosts in his time slot. — Bill O'Reilly's future with Fox News …

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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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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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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 …

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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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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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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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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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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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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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