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12:55 PM ET, May 14, 2017

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
In a tweet, President Trump raised the possibility of canceling regular briefings with the White House press corps  —  In a mini-tweetstorm Friday that combined references to alleged unfair treatment of his spokespeople and the firing of FBI Director James Comey, President Trump raised …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Once a president drops even the pretense of accuracy, White House press briefings lose their value  —  So the threat we have been waiting for — girding for — has finally arrived from the presidential level.  —  “Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future 'press briefings …
Will Oremus / Slate:
Replying to Trump's tweet on ending press briefings, CFO Anthony Noto pitched Twitter Q&As, then extolled press, clarified he didn't support ending briefings  —  On Friday morning, President Trump issued his latest threat to curtail the media's access to the White House …
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Some pro-Trump media figures like Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec seize control of the political news cycle by breaking significant, legitimate news  —  Last March, in a 60 Minutes segment on fake news, CBS's Scott Pelley introduced a vast new audience to Mike Cernovich …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Survey by cable trade group NCTA shows 61% of Americans strongly or somewhat support net neutrality rules, 51% say net shouldn't be considered a public utility  —  NCTA touts opposition to price caps—which don't exist for home Internet.  —  As US cable companies push to eliminate …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Mother Jones announces a $500K crowdfunding campaign to investigate the connection between the Trump administration and Russia  —  Mother Jones on Friday announced a half-million dollar crowdfunding campaign to investigate any connections between the Trump administration and Russia …
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Inside Gannett's strategy to save local news by connecting its 109+ local papers and USA today into a national organization with local correspondents  —  The central area of the newsroom at USA Today in McLean, Virginia. on March 8, 2017.  (Photo by Greg Kahn)  —  Imagine a great pyramid, its foundations spanning the nation.
Discussion: @parkminjae
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Zeit Online CEO Christian Röpke on reaching a younger audience, introducing a new paywall, more  —  “Sometimes people think there is only one strategy: theirs.  I think that is wrong.  Everyone needs to look for their own solution."  —  Last September, to celebrate …
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with NYT R&D Lab head Marc Lavallee on new technologies, which areas are ripe for experimentation, and what news orgs should pay more attention to  —  “The New York Times is not going to build a self-driving car, but if we see that technology as being inevitable …
Ian Burrell / The Drum:
Interview with Euronews CEO Michael Peters as the European 24-hour broadcaster splits its multi-language channel into 12 customized-by-language channels  —  It has been a great week for Europe.  A great European Union enthusiast, Emmanuel Macron, is president of France and there is revolutionary change …
Rob Sharp / Nieman Lab:
A look at Denník N, the independent Slovakian paper founded in 2015 that now has 23K paid digital subscribers, the most nationally, and 110K registered readers  —  “We were scared to start a newspaper.  We started small...We started with people who were ready to act very honestly and bravely.
 
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Hal Niedzviecki, the editor of Write, the magazine of the Writers Union of Canada, has resigned after half-jokingly defending cultural appropriation
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
A 2015 Gawker post based on Michael Lynton's emails from Sony Pictures hack is deleted from Gawker archive; Denton says takedown was confidential by court order
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
BuzzFeed Motion Pictures' Jessica Chambers docuseries, based on a BuzzFeed investigation, will air on the Oxygen channel, the studio's first TV show pickup
Discussion: @natjarv