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5:15 PM ET, April 28, 2017

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Reuters:
Trump says he would attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner next year  —  He misses driving, feels as if he is in a cocoon, and is surprised how hard his new job is.  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday reflected on his first 100 days in office with a wistful look at his life before the White House.
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: the Murdochs are searching for a new head of Fox News, with a preference for a female executive  —  The company has quietly put out feelers for a possible new head of Fox News with the preference, say sources, that it be a woman.  —  The Murdochs may be preparing for a leadership change at Fox News.
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Rachel Stockman / Mediaite:
Source: plans to create a new right-wing news network are under discussion, as some prominent conservatives believe that Fox News is moving too far to the left  —  On the heels of major shakeups at the Fox News Network, an alternative conservative network is being actively discussed amongst conservative fat cats.
Time Inc.:
Time Inc.'s board says they have evaluated sale offers and decided not to sell the company, and will back the management team's original plan instead  —  Time Inc. President and CEO Rich Battista stated, “Time Inc. is a reinvigorated company uniquely positioned to succeed …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
A look at the press in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, during which journalists have both scrutinized and normalized the new President  —  Eons ago — yes, way back before Jan. 20 — I urged the American press to “scrutinize, not normalize” the actions of the new administration.
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Report: Content recommendation companies Taboola and Outbrain are in advanced merger talks; combined company would be valued at $1B+  —  Taboola and Outbrain, two content recommendations companies that employ roughly 500 people, were formed the same year (2006) and have each raised substantial sums …
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Imran Amed / The Business of Fashion:
Q&A with Anna Wintour, American Vogue editor-in-chief, on the future of the industry as technology challenges traditional media  —  There is no one in the fashion world quite as powerful — or as polarising — as Anna Wintour.  For our latest print edition, Imran Amed sits …
Discussion: Adweek, The Business of Fashion and AOL
Jason Del Rey / Recode:
Inside BuzzFeed's 12-person affiliate commerce team, which operates under the company's Entertainment umbrella that reports to Ze Frank, not News head Ben Smith  —  Affiliate links are so hot right now.  —  BuzzFeed isn't the first media company to try to make money by pointing you to stuff you should buy on Amazon.
Discussion: Cision
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Publishers Association says sales of consumer ebooks plunged 17% last year to £204M, the lowest level since 2011  —  Consumer sales down to £204m last year and are at lowest level since 2011 - when Amazon Kindle sales first took off in UK  —  Britons are abandoning the ebook …
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Jury rules for the ex-wife of Infowars' Alex Jones in a custody case where Jones' lawyer portrayed him as a “performance artist”  —  “Mr. Jones is like a cult leader,” the conspiracy blogger's ex-wife told the jury.  “And we've seen the horrific damage cult leaders do to their followers.”
Patrick Frater / Variety:
Sony's profits for 2016-17 financial year fall by 50% to $660M driven by $719M loss in its pictures division, which houses its film and TV content operations  —  Japanese electronics and entertainment group, Sony revealed net profits of $660 million (JPY73.3 billion) for the financial year running from April 2016 to March 2017.
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop teams with Conde Nast to create a new print magazine; Paltrow and her team are working directly with Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour
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Lauren Johnson / Adweek:
The Washington Post is pitching Zeus, its proprietary tech product that serves ads in two seconds or less, to other publishers like Tronc and The Globe and Mail
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC releases the full text of Ajit Pai's proposal to roll back Title II net neutrality rules ahead of May 18 vote
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Joseph Menn / Reuters:
Facebook identifies efforts to falsely amplify content and sentiment using fake accounts, as seen in US election, improves detection using patterns of activity
 

 
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds

Financial Times:
Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its valuation a few months ago; SpaceX prepares a tender offer that would value the company at $250B+

Jibin Joseph / PCMag:
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time
 
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