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7:50 AM ET, April 29, 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.
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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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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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Milo Yiannopoulos says he has raised $12M from undisclosed investors to form a media company, Milo Inc., and plans to build a 30-person team in Miami  —  “This isn't some vanity nameplate on a personal blog,” he said of Milo, Inc, his new company that has anonymous backers.
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 …
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.
Variety:
Chris Dodd stepping down as head of the MPAA, will be replaced by Charles Rivkin, Obama's former assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs  —  Chris Dodd is stepping down as head of the Motion Picture Association of America, Variety has confirmed.
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
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
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.”
 
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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
Discussion: The Guardian
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
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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