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6:35 PM ET, May 24, 2017

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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Ed Butowsky, Fox News pundit who facilitated a private investigation into the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich, has links to Steve Bannon  —  Ed Butowsky, the Dallas wealth manager and frequent Fox News guest who facilitated a private investigation into the murder of Seth Rich …
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Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
As Cars.com pulls ads from his show, Fox News' Sean Hannity says progressives are trying to silence his conservative voice  —  The Fox News host defiantly pushes back against critics in a HuffPost interview just as a first advertiser flees.  —  As Fox News host Sean Hannity came under fire …
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy:
Meanwhile, Rich family spox tells me @FoxNews never contacted them with apology. Retraction noticeably had no expression of regret/apology.
Discussion: Mediaite
Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
After several days of pushing theories on Seth Rich's murder, Fox News' Hannity announces he won't discuss the case for now
Fox News:
Fox News retracts story about the murder investigation of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The Manchester Evening News raised £1M+ in crowdsourced donations from 30K+ people, for the families of those killed or injured in the city's terror attack  —  A fundraising page set up by the Manchester Evening News to support the families of those killed or injured in the bombing …
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Zeynep Tufekci / BuzzFeed:
Terrorism is mass murder with a media strategy and news outlets must learn to disrupt it, instead of providing endlessly looping coverage of attacks  —  Struggling to cover terror in the media age.  —  It's 2017, and the world is shaken by another depraved mass murder, carried out and claimed in the name of ISIS.
Rachael Combe / ELLE:
Profile of Maggie Haberman of The New York Times: well-sourced, with a longtime relationship with Trump, dominating the White House beat from New York City  —  The man with the orange hair is making a scene.  Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for the New York Times …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Media Insight Project study: 17% of Americans say media is very accurate, but 34% say media they use most often is very accurate; 53% call media they use moral  —  Just 24 percent of Americans said they regard “the news media” as “moral,” but that number jumps to 53 percent for the media they consume often.
John Koblin / New York Times:
HBO has shelved Jon Stewart's shortform animation series, blaming technical issues; the company says it is still pursuing other projects with Stewart  —  Jon Stewart and HBO are not going forward with his much-anticipated animation project, a setback for what was supposed to be the next step in his post-late-night career.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Responding to Andrea Tantaros' lawsuit, Fox News requests sanctions against her lawyer and asks for the case to be dismissed with prejudice  —  The cable news network demands sanctions as Andrea Tantaros' lawyer suggests something sinister.  —  Fox News has filed a blistering response …
Discussion: Real Stories and Variety
Jessi Hempel / Backchannel:
Q&A with Upworthy cofounder Eli Pariser, who coined the term “filter bubble” in his book, about the phenomena, fake news and its influence, more  —  Six years after the Upworthy cofounder coined the term “filter bubble,” things are much worse.
Discussion: @elipariser and @stevenlevy
 
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The Times has launched a paywalled site for lawyers called The Brief, a spin-off of an existing free email bulletin; it is priced at £4/week for new subscribers
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Discussion: Nikkei and Variety
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A look at Gellara, an Afghan women's magazine that launched Thursday with a print run of 2K copies and hopes to spark important conversations among young women
Discussion: @nytimesworld
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Michael Kan / PCMag:
OpenAI makes the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows available to all users, following an October release limited to paying ChatGPT subscribers

Financial Times:
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