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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Q&A with NYT's Peter Baker on interviewing President Trump with Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt: going on and off the record, staying on topic, more — A conversation with New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker. — President Trump's blockbuster interview …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Sources: Trump to announce that Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci will be White House communications director, filling Mike Dubke's spot — President Trump is expected to announce that Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci will be White House communications director, according to two sources familiar with the planning.
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Facebook details progress with its Journalism Project after six months: 2.6K publishers met, new features and training for its products, more — Since launching the Facebook Journalism Project, we've met with 2,600 publishers around the globe to create a dialogue around how they use …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook begins disabling the ability to edit the headline, text, and images on link previews, with exceptions for original publishers — Until now, any Facebook Page that posted a link could change the headline, body text and image that appeared in the News Feed preview.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Ari Melber's new MSNBC show The Beat will debut on Monday, replacing Greta Van Susteren's 6pm hour — IS THE WITCHING HOUR NOW 9 P.M.? It was after that hour last night that multiple dizzying stories about the Trump administration dropped. Here's The Washington Post's bombshell, (note …
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
YouTube collaborates with Jigsaw to launch Redirect Method, responding to certain keyword searches with videos that discredit extremist recruiting narratives — YouTube is taking its next step in countering extremism and terrorist content on its platform. Today the company announced …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Source: Discovery is vying to buy Scripps in part because it wants to bundle the Scripps networks with its own, in an online service for $3 to $4 a month — Programmer could sell HGTV and TLC in low-cost online package — Discovery vies with Viacom in advanced talks to buy Scripps
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Corinne Grinapol / Adweek:
The Hill names Richard Beckman, formerly of Group Nine, Vice, and Prometheus Global, among others, as its first president — The former Prometheus Global Media CEO reunites with James Finkelstein — Richard Beckman joins The Hill as its first president, a move that reunites him with James Finkelstein …
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
El Financiero and Bloomberg launch Bloomberg Businessweek México, a Spanish-language magazine with local content — El Financiero and Bloomberg L.P. announced Thursday the launch of Bloomberg Businessweek México, a Spanish-language, bi-weekly edition.
Maxim Eristavi / Washington Post:
I'm a Ukrainian journalist, tired of living in fear a year after the unsolved car-bomb assassination of reporter Pavel Sheremet — People take part in a procession July 20 marking the one-year anniversary of the death of journalist Pavel Sheremet, who was killed by a car bomb, in Kiev.
Terry McDonell / Literary Hub:
Terry McDonell describes what it was like to edit Hunter S. Thompson's stories — TERRY MCDONELL ON THE ORIGIN OF ‘GONZO’ AND LATE NIGHT CALLS FROM HUNTER — There are conflicting stories about the first use of the word gonzo to describe Hunter's journalism but all credit fellow journalist Bill Cardoso.
Felix Gillette / Bloomberg:
Profile of Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose low production values and politically conservative agenda are clashing with local newsrooms as the network expands — In the menagerie of television talking heads who have come to prominence advocating for Donald Trump, Boris Epshteyn is hardly the most memorable.
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