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Daniel Funke / Poynter:
Fact-checking website Snopes publishes an appeal for donations to help it avoid shutting down, amid its legal dispute with digital services company Proper Media — It seems that the ongoing legal battle between Snopes and one of its former contractors is beginning to take a toll.
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Snopes, Nieman Lab, Motherboard, Newser, TechCrunch, The Atlantic, The Daily Caller, The Wrap, ZDNet, Fast Company, @digiphile, @dpfunke and @myhlee
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci suggests return of televised press briefings, tweeting “The TV cameras are back On” — After weeks of the White House briefings being off-camera and journalists complaining about it, new White House Communications Director …
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@scaramucci, Media Matters for America, Washington Post, The Week, The Wrap and Fortune
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Anastasia Valeeva / Nieman Lab:
Editors of popular Russian Telegram channels on how news orgs use the service, and the difference in audience compared with other social and messaging platforms — Meduza, Snob, TV Rain, BBC Russian, and RT weigh in on their publishing and promotion strategies on the platform …
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@paulbradshaw
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Fox & Friends’ issues ‘update’ on New York Times-ISIS flap. No apology. — “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy on Monday morning issued an “update” to a bizarre fight that flared up over the weekend between the program and the New York Times. At issue was the role of the newspaper …
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Rolling Stone, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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Politico:
New York Times requests on-air apology and tweet from “Fox & Friends” for “inaccurate and malicious” segment that said a NYT story foiled pursuit of ISIS leader
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New York Times, Vanity Fair, Reporters Without Borders, The Daily Caller, Variety, The Guardian, ABC News, @realdonaldtrump, Associated Press, Talking New Media, TVNewser, Washington Post, New York Times, Newser, @chadlivengood, @brianklaas, @theplumlinegs, @hadas_gold, @amyfiscus, @cliffordlevy and The Hill
New York Times:
New owner of Chicago Sun-Times pledges to cover the working class and labor unions, which now share ownership of the paper — CHICAGO — At a Christmas party in December, Edwin Eisendrath, a former Chicago alderman, bumped into Jorge Ramirez, a labor leader.
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@felixgillette, @ennisnyt and @melbournecoal
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Profile of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, on their off-camera romance, their tempestuous relationship with Donald Trump, and more — Joe, Mika, and their star-crossed relationship with the president. — It was Joe Scarborough's 53rd birthday, April 9, 2016, and his youngest child …
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Newser, The Wrap, Mediaite, @ebruenig, @olivianuzzi, @olivianuzzi, @feministabulous, @cillizzacnn, @brianstelter, @jpressler, @bilgeebiri, @kaitlancollins and @elongreen
Brian Flood / The Wrap:
MSNBC finished first as the most-watched cable network during weekday primetime last week, topping Fox News, the first time in the company's history — MSNBC finished ahead of Fox News as the most-watched cable network during weekday primetime last week, averaging 2.34 million viewers from July 17-21.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Hulu hires Kelly Campbell, the current head of Global Growth Marketing for Google Cloud, as CMO — Hulu announced this morning the appointment of Kelly Campbell, the current head of Global Growth Marketing for Google Cloud, as its new chief marketing officer.
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Broadcasting & Cable, Variety and The Wrap
Emily Steel / New York Times:
If AT&T's $85.4B bid for Time Warner is approved by regulators, CEO Jeff Bewkes is expected to leave, with the Time Warner brand being eliminated — Jeffrey L. Bewkes championed acclaimed series like “The Sopranos” and “Sex and the City” at HBO, salvaged Time Warner from its disastrous merger …
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FierceCable, TVNewser, @dylanbyers, @sherman4949 and @gerryfsmith
Ross Benes / Digiday:
Profile of Julia Beizer, HuffPost's head of product who oversaw the site's recent redesign and who, prior to that role, spent 11 years at the Washington Post — After HuffPost released its redesigned website in April, Julia Beizer went to a tiny midtown Manhattan karaoke bar with a dozen or so colleagues to celebrate.
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@raju, @emilyingram and @digiday
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Flipboard CEO Mike McCue says the company had its first ever cashflow positive month in February and now has 100M+ users — Tech entrepreneur Mike McCue knows a lot about bringing different types of media — voice, video and text - onto the Internet. But for the last couple years …
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@rafat, @sarafischer, @sarafischer and @gabyaschwarz
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Bleacher Report names Condé Nast veteran Howard Mittman its chief revenue officer and its first chief marketing officer — Bleacher Report has named veteran Condé Nast publisher Howard Mittman as chief revenue officer and its first chief marketing officer as it seeks to capitalize …
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