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4:10 PM ET, August 6, 2017

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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:
Jason Silverstein / New York Daily News:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: “We don't prosecute reporters for doing their jobs”, won't rule out prosecutions, says no policies have been revised yet  —  The Justice Department likely won't be going after journalists for publishing leaks on the Trump administration …
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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 …
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the DoJ is reviewing its policy on media subpoenas as part of a crackdown on leaks
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
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 …
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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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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Monocle launches short-run, 48-page, summer print newspaper, financed through ads and preorders with issues available on newsstands for £5  —  “We've spent a lot of time looking at the state of the international news market and looking at what's working and what's not working …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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