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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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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 …
Annie Karni / Politico:
How White House Director of Strategic Communications Hope Hicks manages Trump's interactions with the press — Trump's 28-year-old communications adviser has earned the president's trust by letting him do just as he pleases when it comes to dealing with the press.
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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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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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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Southern California News Group, owner of 11 newsrooms, sends memo announcing voluntary buyout plan to prevent layoffs, details in Aug — Journalists at newspapers in Digital First Media's Southern California News Group got a memo on Friday announcing an unspecified number of buyouts, OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellano reported Friday.
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OC Weekly
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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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
One year after Roger Ailes' departure, Fox News thrives as an unabashed Trump booster — When Roger Ailes resigned from Fox News one year ago, critics questioned whether the network could stay dominant without its visionary founder. One year later, Fox News remains the most-watched network …
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@cnnmoney, Politico, HuffPost, @jaketapper and Washington Post
David Holmberg / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Gar Joseph, a former Philadelphia Daily News editor, who edited the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of police corruption that led to the book Busted — IN BUSTED, A 2014 BOOK based on their Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of police corruption, Philadelphia Daily News reporters Wendy Ruderman …
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@cjr, @catherine_lucey and @newsburd
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, @caseynewton and @bguthrie
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
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
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