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1:00 PM ET, May 23, 2017

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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Infowars was reportedly granted temporary White House press credentials, which are easier to receive than a permanent pass  —  Far-right website InfoWars was granted temporary White House press credentials on Monday.  —  Jerome Corsi, the Washington, DC bureau chief for the site that's known …
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
James Corden and Conan O'Brien are getting their own shows on Snapchat; NBC News expected to launch a daily newscast in September  —  When Elisabeth Murdoch said goodbye to the family business in the wake of the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal in 2014, there was considerable anticipation regarding her next career move.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Scribd adds select articles from The Guardian, the NYT, and WSJ, as well as archival content from the FT; the service now has 500K+ subs paying $8.99 a month  —  The content subscription site is adding content from newspapers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Joseph Otterson / Variety:
MSNBC Reaches Number One For First Time in Weekly Primetime Ratings, Fox News Drops to Third  —  For the first time in its history, MSNBC ranked number one in both total viewers and the key adults 25-54 demographic during primetime for a full week among the big three cable news networks.
Jordan Michael Smith / The Guardian:
Jezebel, now 10 years old, inspired other sites and influenced established women's magazines with humor, provocation, four-letter words, and controversy  —  Fresh, funny and feminist, Jezebel blazed a trail when it launched in 2007.  It forced others to follow - but does it still have a place on the internet it helped to create?
Discussion: @evepeyser, @freeblackgirl and @nbj914
Julia Fioretti / Reuters:
EU states approve plan to make social media firms tackle hate speech, introduces 30% quota of European media on video streaming platforms, awaits parliament OK  —  European Union ministers approved plans on Tuesday to make social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter …
Mike Shields / Business Insider:
Facebook is testing a new product, Audience Direct, which it says helps publishers target ads with 90% accuracy; early partners include ESPN  —  Facebook says it want to help media companies make more money from digital ads.  And now, the social networking giant is even offering to let publishers sell ads using Facebook's data.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam says the company will use Yahoo and AOL's combined platform of 1.3B users to test an OTT video service  —  The long and tortuous sale of Yahoo's internet business to Verizon is expected to close around the middle of June, according to Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam.
Discussion: Ubergizmo and Consumerist
Trevor Timm / Columbia Journalism Review:
The prospect of Joe Lieberman as FBI director does not bode well for press freedom  —  Former Senator Joe Lieberman is reportedly President Trump's leading choice to replace the recently-fired James Comey as FBI director.  If you're a person who values free speech and press freedom rights …
Luke Mullins / Washingtonian:
Profile of Matt Boyle, Washington editor of Breitbart News, who says he is still in regular communication with Steve Bannon  —  The very unlikely rise of a media phenomenon in Trump's Washington.  —  Matt Boyle went from an outsider ridiculed for his awkward mien and his activist tendencies …
Discussion: @mckaycoppins
 
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
As part of its outreach to news publishers, Facebook is testing three new products which aim to connect users with local news
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