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11:20 AM ET, June 13, 2017

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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Source: J.P. Morgan Chase to remove all ads from NBC News over Megyn Kelly's interview with InfoWars' Alex Jones until after episode airs  —  So far, advertisers—with one notable exception—have remained quiet as Sandy Hook families criticize the NBC host for her sit-down with the Infowars founder
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Exec producer for Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly defends Alex Jones interview, saying they are not giving him a platform because he does not go unchallenged  —  Megyn Kelly in 90 seconds  —  When Megyn Kelly released the 90-second promo for her interview with controversial media figure Alex Jones, the pushback was immediate.
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
The mainstream media shouldn't try to shield its audience from Alex Jones or pretend he doesn't exist; it should interrogate him  —  Last Sunday night, as the second episode of her new NBC newsmagazine show was wrapping up, Megyn Kelly ran a short teaser for next week's highly anticipated interview …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The NYT is teaming up with Alphabet's Jigsaw to expand its comments, using Perspective, an algorithmically-driven application, to weed out toxic comments  —  Comments have seen better days.  —  In the last few years, several news organizations — NPR, Reuters and Recode, among them …
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New York Times:
Condé Nast is closing Style.com, its first major experiment in online fashion retail, nine months after its launch; the site will redirect to Farfetch  —  Condé Nast, the publishing giant that owns magazine titles like Vogue, GQ and Vanity Fair, is closing its first major experiment …
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Sahil Patel / Digiday:
‘Facebook is only half in’: Creators doubt Facebook's commitment to original programming
Discussion: Variety and Fortune
Bloomberg:
Verizon officially closes the $4.5B Yahoo deal; combined assets form a Verizon unit called Oath led by Tim Armstrong, as Marissa Mayer steps down  —  Combined assets form Verizon unit called Oath led by Armstrong  —  Yahoo is renamed Altaba with Thomas McInerney named CEO
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Washington Post launches The Lily, its new distributed media brand for millennial women, available on Medium, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter  —  The Washington Post may be best known for its award-winning journalism, but it wants its new distributed media brand for millennial women, The Lily, to stand out for its design.
Alexandraek / Reporters Without Borders:
Sources: a court in southeastern Turkey has convicted an ISIS member of murdering Syrian journalist Naji Jerf in Gaziantep in December 2015  —  Organisation  —  RSF_en  —  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has learned that a court in Gaziantep, in southeastern Turkey …
The Guardian:
Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte has been sentenced to 40 hours community service and a $385 fine for assaulting Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs  —  Montana Republican gets community service and $385 fine after pleading guilty to assaulting Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs on the eve of Gianforte's election
 
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
The Sun-Times has agreed with the Justice Department to extend the deadline for potential buyers to June 19
Discussion: @raylong
Cale-Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company:
The New York Times vows to stand by the Public Theater as a corporate sponsor despite Trump-Julius Caesar controversy, citing free speech
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook is building feature to let users subscribe to news publications, expected by end of year; talks ongoing around payment model, Instant Articles
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News names Ron Mitchell, previously senior producer of “The O'Reilly Factor”, as VP of story development and primetime programming, promotes five others
Discussion: TVNewser and Deadline
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Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
Analysis shows that conservative websites are far more likely to attack fact-checkers than their liberal counterparts
Discussion: @mantzarlis