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Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
Journalists condemn White House ban on video at press briefing as WHCA President Jeff Mason says the group is working on the issue — “They don't want the American public to see this live,” CNN's Wolf Blitzer said as video coverage is again barred. — Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
White House-press relations turn toxic as communications team tries to hire more staff and President Trump berates media in public, schmoozes in private — Five months into Donald Trump's presidency, White House-media relations are hanging by a thread. — The White House is facing daily criticism …
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@brianstelter and ABC News
Susan Wojcicki / YouTube Blog:
At VidCon, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announces 1.5B logged-in viewers visit YouTube each month, says YouTube TV will expand to 10 markets, and more — I just got off stage after a great conversation with Rhett and Link at VidCon, where we announced a number of exciting new updates.
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YouTube Blog, TechCrunch, @lucas_matney, Pocket-lint, Recode, Hollywood Reporter, CNBC, @shiraovide, The Next Web, Variety and Tubefilter, more at Techmeme »
Katrina Manson / Financial Times:
Group of Arab states tells Qatar to close state-owned Al Jazeera and all affiliated channels as part of a list of demands to be met in 10 days — Read next … Kuwait has passed on a list that gives Qatar 10 days to comply with a series of demands from the Arab states that cut ties with it more than two weeks ago.
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AP News, RT, RT, Hindustan Times, The Hill, @msbellows, @vijayshekhar, @rafat, @a_alnuaimi13, @a_alnuaimi13 and The Week
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Reuters report: ad blocking growth stalls, 18% of 18-24-year-olds in US pay for online news, 33% of same age globally use social media as their main news source — The Reuters Institute's annual report on digital news contains some surprises. — The United States recently elected an unusual president.
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MediaShift, Nieman Lab, Sputnik International, @kreissdaniel, @dskok, @shansquared, @shansquared, @newsbyschmidt, @niemanlab and @nbj914
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Tesla is talking to music labels about creating its own streaming service that would be bundled with its cars — Why not work directly with Spotify, Apple and others? Good question. — Put this one in the “You can do that, but why would you want to do that?” file …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Republican coal baron Robert Murray is suing John Oliver, HBO, Time Warner, and the writers for Oliver's show over the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight — A Republican coal baron is suing John Oliver, HBO, Time Warner, and the writers for Oliver's show over the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight.
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
A civil case from Murray Energy in a New York appeals court is testing whether the state's shield law protects small, subscriber-based news organizations
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Boing Boing, @nytmetro, @aclaudecase, @johnastoehr, @marlownyc, @noahshachtman, Talking Biz News and Associated Press
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Filing: Sean Parker and Klaus Hommels leave Spotify board as ex-Disney COO Thomas Staggs, ex-YouTube exec Shishir Mehrotra, others join ahead of rumored IPO — As Spotify inches its way to a public listing, the streaming music company — which now has 140 million users — has made some significant changes to its board of directors.
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breakit.se, RAIN News, Billboard, Business Insider, Variety and Axios, more at Techmeme »
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Facebook removed 30+ pages run from Macedonia over past two months citing TOS violations; publishers had assumed they were safe after paying for ads — Over 30 Facebook pages being run from Macedonia have been removed by Facebook in the past two months.
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@jimwaterson, @mattmittenthal and @s_yamkovenko
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
The gunman motivated by the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, Edgar Maddison Welch, gets four years in prison — The North Carolina man who commandeered a pizza restaurant at gunpoint in Northwest Washington to investigate a false Internet rumor of a pedophile ring there was sentenced to four years in in prison Thursday.
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BuzzFeed, Associated Press, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, @apsouthregion and vice
Washpostpr / Washington Post:
The Washington Post launches ModBot, a proprietary tool that uses machine learning to moderate comments — The Washington Post has launched ModBot, a software application that utilizes artificial intelligence to moderate comments. The proprietary technology uses machine learning …
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Journalism.co.uk and @gjbarb
Emily Peck / HuffPost:
An internal email from 6 female WSJ reporters reveals growing frustration with how the paper's leadership has addressed the gender pay gap and racial diversity — An internal email obtained by HuffPost reveals growing unrest. — The Wall Street Journal's staff is about as diverse …
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@jdelreal, @emilyrpeck and @huffpostmedia
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Sources: Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge eyes Atlanta's Cox Communications as acquisition target, but Cox has long said it's not interested in a sale — The upcoming season for cable TV could see yet another merger. — Charter Communications — the nationwide cable giant whose …
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Consumerist, BGR and TVWeek.com
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