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6:10 PM ET, June 13, 2017

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Reporters are told they can no longer film or record interviews in Senate halls of Capitol without special permission, then Senate Rules chair reverses course  —  Reporters covering the U.S. Senate were told Tuesday that they could no longer film interviews with senators in the hallways outside …
Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
Memo: Time Inc announces it is cutting 300 jobs, 4% of workforce, with layoffs and buyouts  —  Time Inc (TIME.N) said on Tuesday it is eliminating 300 positions, or 4 percent of its workforce, through layoffs and buyouts, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.
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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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New York Times begins using Alphabet's machine-learning powered Jigsaw to weed out toxic comments, increasing the number of articles that allow 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 …
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Fraternity chapter at University of Virginia plans to settle its defamation suit against Rolling Stone for $1.65M  —  A Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter announced Tuesday it plans to settle a lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine in a defamation case involving allegations — later debunked …
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 …
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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
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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Nick Kostov / Wall Street Journal:
Altice USA expects IPO to price between $27 and $31 a share, to raise ~$1.35B  —  Altice USA put a price range of $27 to $31 a share on its initial public offering of stock.
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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 …
Discussion: @tokyofashion, @martfack and @stanyee
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 …
Discussion: @raylong
 
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Financial Times:
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