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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Reporters at the Capitol are being barred from filming hallway interviews with senators unless they get permission from the senator and Senate Rules Committee — Reporters at the Capitol are being barred from filming hallway interviews with senators unless they get permission from the senator and a committee.
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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
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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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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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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Q&A with Hanna Ingber, who runs the NYT's new Reader Center, on strategies for connecting with the Times audience, from SMS groups to showcasing reader voices — Don't expect The New York Times new Reader Center to pick up where the public editor left off.
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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.
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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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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
NBC should drop Megyn Kelly's one-on-one interview with Alex Jones and use the material as one piece of a serious investigation of him and others like him — The signs about Megyn Kelly's one-on-one NBC interview with the despicable conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have been bad from the start.
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
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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 — The Chicago Sun-Times has agreed with the Department of Justice to extend the deadline for potential buyers at least one more week. — The Sun-Times has agreed with the Justice Department …
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Salman Masood / New York Times:
Pakistan court sentences man to death for committing blasphemy in posts on Facebook and WhatsApp, in a first for the country — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An antiterrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced a Shiite man to death for committing blasphemy in posts on social media.
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Nikkei:
The Japan Times, a 120-year-old English-language daily newspaper, has been sold to Tokyo-based PR company News2u — Death of autoparts maker's US-educated founder paved way for sale of English paper — TOKYO — Japanese autoparts maker Nifco has decided to sell The Japan Times …
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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 …
Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Facebook is near a deal to revive Loosely Exactly Nicole, canceled after one season on MTV, in its push to bulk up original video programming — ‘Loosely Exactly Nicole’ was canceled after one season on MTV, but the social media giant is near a deal to revive it for a second season.
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