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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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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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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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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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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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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 — Internet providers in Europe can be ordered to block access to The Pirate Bay, even though the site itself doesn't store any infringing material. This is the conclusion of the EU Court of Justice in what has proven to be a landmark case.
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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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Caroline Scott / Journalism.co.uk:
NBC launches NBC Left Field, a new standalone digital video studio, that will create short documentaries and features for social media — NBC Left Field's team of 12 will produce short documentaries and features on issues of interest to a global audience — NBC has launched a new …
Nilagia McCoy / Shorenstein Center:
Analysis: advantages and challenges of the BBC compared with US news organizations — Helen Boaden, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (spring 2017), and former BBC News and BBC Radio director — A new paper by Helen Boaden, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (spring 2017), and former BBC News and BBC Radio director …
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