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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A look at the ugly descent of Trump's relationship with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, from Trump's guest appearances on Morning Joe to today's tweets — President Trump's relationship with the hosts of the MSNBC program “Morning Joe” — which devolved into cringeworthy tweets …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump's vulgar tweets directed at Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are the latest of a string of escalating attacks by the president on the news media — President Trump assailed the television host Mika Brzezinski on Thursday in unusually personal and vulgar terms …
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Greta Van Susteren parts ways with MSNBC after her 6pm show fails to gain traction — In an era where liberal anger is driving ratings, the former Fox anchor's 6:00 p.m. show never caught fire. — “Remember me?” Greta Van Susteren crooned to the camera as she raised the curtain on her new MSNBC show on January 9.
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Sources: Twitter is weighing a way to let users flag tweets with misleading, false, or harmful info, moving slowly due to concerns users could game the system — Twitter is exploring adding a feature that would let users flag tweets that contain misleading, false, or harmful information …
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Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge:
AMC launches an HBO Go-style service with AMC Premiere for Xfinity TV customers — Xfinity customers get exclusive access — Comcast and AMC just announced AMC Premiere, an ad-free, simultaneous broadcast streaming service for Xfinity TV customers. The service will also include …
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
AMC launches AMC Premiere, an advertising-free version of its channel, for $4.99 a month, available as an add-on for Comcast cable subscribers — Comcast cable subscribers can pay an extra $5 a month to watch AMC shows like ‘The Walking Dead’ without ads — For fans of “The Walking Dead” …
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
News Corp's conservative digital media site Heat Street will be shuttered as a standalone operation on August 4 and become part of MarketWatch — The conservative digital media outlet, which is owned by News Corp and originally led by Louise Mensch, will be shuttered as a standalone operation on August 4.
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:
McMansion Hell architecture criticism blog returns and Zillow drops its complaint against the EFF-supported blogger after backlash over fair use of images — The architecture criticism blog McMansion Hell is back up and running days after a threatening cease-and-desist letter from Zillow Group scared …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The New York Times editorial staff protests pending newsroom cuts with a 15-minute walkout and reporters' letter to top editors — New York Times reporters on Thursday sent a letter to the paper's top editors to protest the oncoming cuts to the newsroom's editing staff.
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Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
Poynter receives a $1.3M grant from the Omidyar Network and Open Society Foundations to expand its International Fact-Checking Network — In the fall of 2015, I joined Poynter to run the newly launched International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). While I had high expectations for the new gig …
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Bérénice Magistretti / VentureBeat:
Make.TV, which helps broadcasters collect, curate, and distribute live video streams, raises $8.5M from Voyager Capital, Microsoft Ventures, Vulcan Capital — EXCLUSIVE: — Make.TV, which helps broadcasters collect, curate, and distribute live video streams, today announced funding of $8.5 million, led by Voyager Capital.
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Jeff Baumgartner / Broadcasting & Cable:
Nuvyyo debuts the Tablo Engine, an Android TV-based DVR app that lets consumers watch and record live TV from local broadcast networks — DVR app/tuner combo lets consumers watch and record TV on the Nvidia Shield — Nuvyyo, the company behind a lineup of over-the-air DVRs …
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