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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox News suspends Eric Bolling while it investigates reports that he sent lewd photos to female colleagues — Fox News has suspended Eric Bolling following the report last night about allegations he send lewd photos to female colleagues. — Mediaite received the following statement from Fox News:
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the DoJ is reviewing its policy on media subpoenas as part of a crackdown on leaks — “We will not allow rogue anonymous sources with security clearances to sell out our country," the attorney general said Friday. — Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Friday …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Leaks must be handled with care, but they're necessary, and leakers and journalists who depend on them should be honored, not jailed — Ever since taking office, President Trump has been condemning leaks, leakers and the journalists they leak to. — “I've actually called the Justice Department …
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Trevor Timm / Columbia Journalism Review:
As pundits decry leaks of transcripts of the president's calls with foreign leaders, it is clear that news value and public interest outweigh any damage — The Washington Post made waves on Thursday when it published the full transcripts of President Trump's erratic phone calls with the leaders …
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Ken Doctor / TheStreet:
Six major US newspaper companies demand that LexisNexis stop distributing their content to media monitoring organizations — Six major U.S. newspaper companies have demanded that LexisNexis, a major aggregator and distributor of news content, stop business practices that the publishers …
Wall Street Journal:
Google is working on Stamp, a Snapchat-like feature based on AMP with stories findable in search and on publisher sites, is talking with Vox, CNN, WaPo, more — ‘Stamp’ media product is based around company's ‘AMP’ mobile web pages — Google is developing technology to let publishers …
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Columbia Journalism School is launching a new master of science in data journalism, the school's fourth degree, for just just under $100K — Say a highly-placed source has a mountain of incriminating data they want to make public. Who are they going to send it to?
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@kreissdaniel and Journalism News
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: Trump's senior policy adviser Stephen Miller under consideration for White House communications director, but he isn't the top contender — Stephen Miller, the Trump senior policy adviser who just tangled on-camera with CNN's Jim Acosta, is under consideration for White House …
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Vanity Fair, The Hill and Mediaite
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Radio network Entercom is buying 45% of Dgital Media, a podcast producer whose roster includes political shows like Pod Save America — The broadcaster is taking a 45 percent stake in the startup. — Earlier this week, podcast startup Gimlet raised $15 million — which gave us the opportunity …
Dan Froomkin / Poynter:
Recent interviews with President Trump have not pressed him enough on truth and specifics; questioning his core beliefs and policies should be a priority — The transcripts of Donald Trump's last two sit-down interviews — one with The New York Times and one with The Wall Street Journal …
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Harun Maruf / Voice of America:
Somalia's National University to reopen its journalism school for the first time in 26 years, with classes beginning as soon as next month — Being a journalist in Somalia carries both risk and reward. The risk comes from al-Shabab militants and other armed groups who have killed …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Brown Sugar, a streaming video service for blaxploitation films and similar fare, launches a channel on Roku — Brown Sugar, the streaming video service that bills itself as being “like Netflix, only blacker,” officially launched a channel on Roku streaming devices Friday.
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