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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.
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Associated Press:
Profile of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, named White House press secretary, a job that requires juggling a feisty White House press corps and a mercurial president — New White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was schooled in hardscrabble politics — and down-home rhetoric …
Washington Post:
Profile of Anthony Scaramucci, new White House communications director and talkative Wall Street financier, brash New Yorker, and relentless promoter
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Reuters study: less than 50% of UK news consumers who got a story from social media or search could correctly name the news org that published it — British news consumers who get news via social media or search platforms are more likely to remember the platform where they accessed …
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@raju and @steverubel
Sunlight Foundation:
Sunlight Foundation report concludes that Trump administration is “secretive”, “allergic to transparency”, and “ethically compromised” — Introduction — Over the first six months of this young presidency, President Donald J. Trump's approach to the office …
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The New York Observer, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Washington Post and Fortune
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 …
Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair:
Stricter standards for verifying users like Louise Mensch may help Twitter solve its fake news problem — How do you stop fake news on Twitter? Start by not endorsing the people who spread it. — Twitter has likely never seen itself as a more important part of the public dialogue than right now.
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National Review and Politico
Jennifer Levitz / Wall Street Journal:
Joseph Rago, a Wall Street Journal editorial writer who won a Pulitzer Prize for challenging Obama's health care policies, dies at 34 — Pulitzer Prize winner was known for his well-reported pieces and policy influence — Joseph Rago, a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer …
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The Verge:
Artists, producers, managers on how SoundCloud alienated them with a messy transition to a paid biz model that made little money for the company and artists — ‘25 million plays, and zero dollars’ — In December 2012, as part of a major redesign, SoundCloud introduced a feature called the repost.
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@helloimlenno, @bguthrie and @caseynewton
Mike Shields / Business Insider:
Sources describe efforts by Google and big publishers to combat the ad fraud practice called spoofing on major ad exchanges, via ads.txt initiative — - The ad industry is trying to root out fraudulent digital ads. — Google has quietly been running tests with media companies such as CBS to gauge how bad the problem is.
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@cah1162, @digitalshields, @joshspotx and CNBC, more at Techmeme »
Andy Robinson / Columbia Journalism Review:
An oral history of the NYT's public editor as told by the six who lived it, on anonymous sources, liberal bias, election coverage, more — Liz Spayd served as the final public editor for the Times. All of them spoke with CJR for our oral history. Photos by Andy Robinson.
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@mantzarlis, @dankennedy_nu, @mlcalderone, @matthewkassel and Columbia Journalism Review
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.
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