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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-Trump 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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Hartford Courant:
Memo: WVIT, an NBC station in Connecticut near the location of the Sandy Hook shooting, won't air Megyn Kelly interview of Alex Jones — The conservative radio personality has dismissed the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax. — Connecticut's NBC station will not air …
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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
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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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Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Media accelerator Matter launches seventh startup class, with members exploring secure messaging, new kinds of social networks, searchable podcasts, and more — Matter focused on five areas in selecting its new class: diversity and inclusion, security, emerging technology, trust in media, and going beyond advertising.
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Elon Green / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Rahawa Haile wrote her memoir, Going It Alone, about hiking the Appalachian Trail for Outside magazine — Photo courtesy of Rahawa Haile. — The first time I read “Going It Alone,” Rahawa Haile's memoir of her Appalachian Trail thru-hike for Outside, I was surprised the piece was so much more about race than nature.
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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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@ericnewcomer, @jeffbercovici, @susie_c, @evepeyser, @sarahbuhr, @jeffbercovici, @jeffbercovici, @max_read, @jeffbercovici, @snowden and TechCrunch
Alexander Nazaryan / Newsweek:
Profile of Breitbart News, which helped elect Trump but is now going through an awkward identity crisis as its grapples with its newfound establishment status — Tradition rules journalism as much as it rules golf, and tradition dictated that the White House press room was for upstanding men …
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@stranahan, @kenli729 and @trevorless
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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@megamoira, @cliomiso, @lmlauramarsh, @onesarahjones, @abbyabrams, @tajhalanier, @supriyan, @charoshane, @jo_livingstone and @cliomiso
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
A look at Task & Purpose, the veterans-focused site that grew out of a jobs board; launched in 2014, it now has 10 full-time staff writers — The veterans-focused site, born out of a jobs board, is expanding beyond its original conception with original reporting, a growing staff of full-time writers, and its own revenue streams.
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Seeso, NBCUniversal's comedy streaming service, has a “handful” of layoffs amid reassessment of business model — There have been layoffs at Seeso, whose business model is currently being reassessed and is expected to change. The cuts are said to impact a handful of employees …
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Jackie Spinner / Columbia Journalism Review:
A profile of the Pinckneyville Press, a hyperlocal weekly with an 11-person staff and readership of just 1,800, known for its investigative scoops — Since Jeff Egbert started publishing the Pinckneyville Press eight years ago, the southern Illinois weekly has exposed a police coverup involving …
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