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11:05 AM ET, May 26, 2017

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Dave Lawler / Axios:
Greg Gianforte wins Montana House seat in special election after being charged with assault, apologizes to Ben Jacobs in victory speech  —  Roughly 24 hours after being charged with assault, Republican Greg Gianforte was elected as Montana's next congressman.
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Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:
CJR begins publicly logging incidents when norms that protect press freedom in the US have been pushed  —  Every few days, Donald Trump issues a new threat against the press.  —  Some are minor-essentially, name calling and common complaints about coverage-while others are harder to dismiss.
AJ Vicens / Mother Jones:
Citizen Lab report details how emails phished from journalist critical of Russia were falsified, then leaked for disinformation campaign; 200+ others targeted  —  Citizen Lab, a Toronto-based human rights research group that focuses on cyber security and surveillance, issued a report Thursday offering …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
14 people who say their names were used as part of 450K anti-net neutrality comments without permission ask FCC for public disclosure, removal of fake comments  —  FCC should investigate and throw out fake comments, impersonation victims say.  —  Fourteen people who say their names …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Source: Sean Hannity's pushing of the Seth Rich theory became a source of tension inside Fox News, a test of his relations with the network  —  Cars.com and a handful of sponsors have pulled their ads from the Fox News star's nightly opinion show after he advanced a conspiracy theory …
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
At least seven advertisers have said they will pull ads from Sean Hannity's show on Fox News  —  Several advertisers have pulled TV spots over the ‘Hannity’ host's reporting on Seth Rich, while conservatives are mounting a counter-boycott.  —  As more reporters and activists contact companies …
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Steven Hopkins / HuffPost UK:
The New York Times defends running leaked Manchester bombing photos, saying its coverage has been “comprehensive and responsible”
James Ball / BuzzFeed:
President Trump has ordered the DOJ to launch an inquiry into leaks about the Manchester attack investigation, saying the culprit should be prosecuted
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
The 7 highest-paid CEOs in the US last year were all in media, including Thomas Rutledge of Charter, Les Moonves of CBS, and Jeff Bewkes of Time Warner  —  You can make a ton of money in the media business, especially if you're a CEO.  —  That's the main takeaway from a new study by the AP …
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Nicole Sinclair / Yahoo! Finance:
Disney CEO Bob Iger says company was not hacked, and the threat of releasing a stolen movie appears fake: “we don't believe that it was real”  —  Disney (DIS) Chairman and CEO Bob Iger said that recent reports that Disney was hacked were inaccurate.  —  “To our knowledge we were not hacked,” Iger told Yahoo Finance.
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Interview with Nick Thompson, editor in chief of Wired, on moving to a paid content model, changes to the print magazine, more  —  Nick Thompson is shaking things up at the iconic magazine  —  Adweek: I recently read that when you worked at Wired the first time, as a senior editor from 2005 to 2010 …
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BBC:
UK columnist and broadcaster Katie Hopkins will leave her show on LBC radio after her controversial tweet on the Manchester attack  —  Broadcaster Katie Hopkins is to leave her show on LBC “immediately”, the radio station has said.  —  The presenter, who first rose to prominence as a contestant …
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Spotify adds four directors to its board, including former Disney COO Tom Staggs and YouTube's former head of product, Shishir Mehrotra  —  Appointment of former Disney COO Tom Staggs hints at ambitions in streaming video  —  Read next … Spotify, the music streaming service …
 
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Corinne Grinapol / Adweek:
CNN announces a new digital site, CNN Tech, focusing on tech and science and led by Sam Grobart, who joined CNN from Bloomberg Businessweek in March
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Parse.ly report: Google sends traffic to newsy articles on tech, business, sports; Facebook sends traffic to lifestyle, politics, and local events stories
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Instant Articles to begin supporting Google AMP and Apple News Format, after several publishers pulled out of the platform due to poor ad revenue
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
A look at Gizmodo Media Group's Special Projects Desk, an eight-person investigative unit focused on long-term, in-depth reporting that pushes boundaries
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
BuzzFeed's Tasty, with 85M Facebook followers in US alone, and nearly 1B views in April, becomes the company's template for vertical content sub-brands
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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