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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump advisor Newt Gingrich said the President should shut down the press briefing room as it would send a message that the media is a “corrupt institution” — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump should “close down the White House press briefing room.”
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Casey Tolan / Mercury News:
Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle says she's in talks about becoming White House press secretary — The Fox News host and former First Lady of San Francisco tells the Bay Area News Group: 'I'm a patriot, and it would be an honor to serve the country.' — NEW YORK — Kimberly Guilfoyle …
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Jimmy Fallon's show has lost nearly 1M viewers in 5 months, as it competes with politics-driven comedy like Colbert's which has become more popular in Trump era — Ambling onto the Art Deco set of “The Tonight Show” for his monologue rehearsal one Monday afternoon, Jimmy Fallon gave the crowd …
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BBC:
WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning is released from Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas, having served 7 years of a 35-year sentence — US soldier Chelsea Manning has been released from prison after serving seven years for leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and military files to Wikileaks.
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Since Medium pivoted its strategy, publishers like Pacific Standard and Film School Rejects have left, while others reconsider working with the site — Last May, Medium made publishers an offer they couldn't resist: Free hosting. Advertising dollars. More eyeballs.
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European Federation of Journalists:
Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is suing ICIJ journalist Matthew Caruana Galizia for defamation, over Facebook posts linking to Panama Papers docs — Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has filed on the 10th of May 2017 a defamation case against Matthew Caruana Galizia …
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Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
Report: Trump asked FBI Director James Comey to consider jailing journalists that publish classified information — The president's private view comes after Attorney General Jeff Sessions refused to publicly commit to not prosecuting reporters. — Frustrated by leaks to the news media …
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Tim Peterson / Marketing Land:
Facebook admits another ad measurement mistake, its tenth since September of 2016, refunds advertisers, saying the error affected just 0.04% of impressions — The mistake — mischarged clicks on video carousel ads by smartphone web users — is the first that directly affected advertisers' wallets.
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Four phases pro-Trump media goes through to turn a negative story around in under 24 hours: stay quiet, blame and discredit, change news cycle, close the loop — This week has posed a new test for the pro-Trump media — a loose affiliation of news organizations, trolls, and independent journalists …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Gizmodo Media Group releases diversity report: 48% of the company's editorial staff are white, with 52% being female — Journalism is still overwhelmingly White. But that won't change if news organizations don't talk about it. — It was in that spirit that Gizmodo Media Group …
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Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
NBCUniversal head of advertising Linda Yaccarino, who oversees $10B in annual ad revenue, on Nielsen, NBCU's new ad inventory, and getting the right “media mix” — After completing her first year as the head of advertising sales for NBCUniversal, Linda Yaccarino went out to dinner with her husband to celebrate.
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Kelly J. O'Brien / Boston Business Journal:
IDG lays off an undisclosed number of employees in the US, including journalists at Macworld — International Data Group, the 53-year-old tech research giant and publisher founded by the late Patrick McGovern, this week laid off an undisclosed number of employees, several months …
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