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7:45 PM ET, July 21, 2017

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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Sean Spicer resigns as White House Press Secretary; source says resignation is over Trump's appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director  —  WASHINGTON — Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, resigned on Friday morning, telling President Trump he vehemently disagreed …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Sean Spicer, who served up falsehood as truth from the start, should have quit long ago and saved himself months of humiliation  —  There's something about Sean Spicer that inspires pity.  He's had so much to deal with: The brutal “Saturday Night Live” skewerings.
Washington Post:
Profile of Anthony Scaramucci, new White House communications director and talkative Wall Street financier, brash New Yorker, and relentless promoter  —  President Trump's decision to bring Anthony Scaramucci into a top White House role represents a remarkable political ascension for the investment veteran …
Jake Tapper / CNNMoney:
Sources: Sean Hannity will no longer receive the Media Research Center's William F. Buckley Award after Buckley's family expressed disapproval  —  Bernstein: ‘We are in a cold civil war’  —  Fox News Channel star anchor Sean Hannity will no longer receive the conservative Media Research …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Source: Vice Media is laying off about 2% of its 3K employees across multiple departments as it looks to expand internationally and ramp up video production  —  Vice Media is laying off about 2% of its 3,000 employees across multiple departments while at the same time the company …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
White House Correspondents' Association tightens its membership rules, leaving out Breitbart news, Mother Jones, and The Daily Signal  —  The White House press corps is culling its ranks, separating who's officially in the club and who isn't.  —  Officially out: Reporters for the likes of Breitbart News and Mother Jones magazine.
Discussion: @usatoday and Felix Salmon
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.
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 …
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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Demands that Al Jazeera be shuttered have been dropped by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, and Bahrain, which cut diplomatic ties with Qatar in June
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I'm a Ukrainian journalist, tired of living in fear a year after the unsolved car-bomb assassination of reporter Pavel Sheremet
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Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy”

William Shaw / Bloomberg:
A survey finds that global banks could cut as many as 200K jobs in the next three to five years as AI encroaches on tasks currently carried out by human workers

Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer:
Tim Sweeney says Big Tech leaders, who used to pretend to be Democrats, are now pretending to be Republicans to skirt antitrust laws and “crush competitors”

 
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