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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Alex Jones scooping Megyn Kelly proves, once again, that the mainstream media is not prepared to cover pro-Tump trolls — Thursday evening, Alex Jones dropped a bomb on Twitter. After a week of roiling controversy surrounding the conspiracy theorist's upcoming interview with Megyn Kelly …
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Sources: NBC reworked Megyn Kelly's show with Alex Jones after backlash, with Kelly inviting Sandy Hook parents on air; one said yes, but others refused — MORE FROM: … Megyn Kelly has completely overhauled her Sunday night show featuring Alex Jones, inviting Sandy Hook families …
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Hollywood Reporter:
Alex Jones releases secretly recorded audio of his pre-interview conversation with Megan Kelly ahead of official airing Sunday
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Apple hires Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg, two of Sony's top TV executives, to lead push into original video programming — Sony's Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg will head up video programming, reporting to Eddy Cue. — For years, Hollywood has heard rumors that Apple might want to make its own TV shows and movies.
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Clio Chang / New Republic:
The decision to create The Lily bolsters the idea that millennial women are less intelligent and less curious than the rest of The Washington Post's readers — The Lily, a website for women readers produced by The Washington Post, raises new questions about a very popular media genre.
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Newsweek:
Producers of Risk, a documentary about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, condemn cease and desist letter from WikiLeaks lawyers to distributors — We are the producers of Risk , a documentary film about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. — We unequivocally defend WikiLeaks' journalistic right to publish true and newsworthy information.
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
King's College hospital launches a complaint with Ipso over a Sun reporter who allegedly impersonated the relative of a Grenfell Tower victim — King's College hospital launches complaint with watchdog over behaviour of Sun reporter — King's College hospital is to lodge a complaint …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Emma Carmichael is stepping down as editor in chief of Jezebel, the third woman in leadership to leave GMG in three months — Emma Carmichael, the editor in chief of Jezebel, announced on Friday that she's stepping down from that position next month. — “This has been the hardest decision …
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J.K. Trotter / Gizmodo:
Founder of Ambrosia, which offers young blood to older people, changed his story about interest from Thiel Capital, 9 months after going on the record about it — When Inc. magazine's Jeff Bercovici reported last August that billionaire Trump-supporter Peter Thiel had repeatedly expressed interest …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Top EU court rules that ISPs can be ordered to block The Pirate Bay and other torrent sites — In 2014, The Court of The Hague handed down its decision in a long running case which had previously forced two Dutch ISPs, Ziggo and XS4ALL, to block The Pirate Bay.
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Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
IBB Consulting study: almost half of US broadband customers subscribe to at least one OTT video service — About one-third take two, and 18% subscribe to more than three, IBB survey finds … Reflecting the surge in consumer adoption and volume of subscription VOD services …
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Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
The Financial Times is splitting up its video content into verticals to target niche audiences and add commercial appeal for prospective advertisers — The Financial Times is splitting up its video content into verticals, with the hope of targeting more specific audiences and adding commercial appeal for prospective advertisers.
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@digiday, @digiday and @mrjohncrowley
BuzzFeed:
How some hyperpartisan websites use vitriol to fuel donations to political PACs, and how both the sites and PACs have ties to a Washington, DC, lawyer — DC lawyer Dan Backer has pioneered a model that uses hyperpartisan news sites to drive donations, petition sign-ups, and publicity for his PACs.
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@rickhasen, @henryjgomez, @mattdrange, @lpdonovan and @craigsilverman
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