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Politico:
Survey of White House press: 75% see Trump's verbal attacks more as distraction than threat; 68% see Trump as most openly anti-press president in US history — Our fourth annual survey of the White House press corps. — This marks the fourth year in a row that Politico Magazine has surveyed …
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The Week, @sominisengupta, @mlcalderone and Mother Jones
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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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Politicus USA, Mediaite, The Wrap, Inside Cable News and New York Magazine
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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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Variety, Media Wire Daily, @nocerabv, Axios, @talkingnewmedia, Recode, The Wrap, Talking New Media, Adweek, Wall Street Journal, @xpangler, @alansmurray, @edmundlee, @felixsalmon and @anthony
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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.
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Vanity Fair, Milo Yiannopoulos, Mediaite, The Hill, vice, New York Magazine, The Wrap, @cwarzel, Business Insider, The Libertarian Republic, Mediaite and The Stranger …
Dan Rys / Billboard:
Musical.ly, the app that lets users create music videos, adds integration with Apple Music, using Apple's music catalog and including cross-promotion — Over the past year, few new apps have captured the attention of the music industry — and teenagers across the globe — than Musical.ly …
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Recode, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, RAIN News, MacRumors and Variety, more at Techmeme »
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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Fortune, more at Techmeme »
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.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Los Angeles Times, @dylanbyers and The Wrap
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.
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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 …
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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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Austin American-Statesman, Vox, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, garnetnews.com, The Huffington Post, @cwarzel, @jtilovetx, @cwarzel and @cwarzel
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