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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Bannon bashed outlets like Washington Post for not reporting from places like Alabama, and now claims conspiracy after WaPo's deep dive on Alabama's Roy Moore — Breitbart boss Stephen K. Bannon on Thursday night ripped The Post. “The Bezos-Amazon-Washington Post that dropped that dime on Donald Trump …
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Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
At least five advertisers back away from Fox News' Hannity following his coverage of allegations against Senate candidate Roy Moore — - At least five companies said over the weekend that they will no longer advertise their products during Fox News' “Hannity.”
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Fox News criticized Trump during the election but now has more pro-Trump hosts and rarely airs critical stories, instead focusing on Clinton-related stories — The network that sparred with him as a candidate now rarely challenges him. — During the Republican primary contest …
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Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
Source: Rupert Murdoch offered to buy CNN during two conversations with AT&T's Randall Stephenson; another source denies Murdoch wants to own the network — Rupert Murdoch telephoned AT&T Inc Chief Executive Randall Stephenson twice in the last six months and talked about cable network CNN …
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Tony Romm / Recode:
Trump said he 'didn't make that decision' to potentially force AT&T and Time Warner to sell CNN
Trump said he 'didn't make that decision' to potentially force AT&T and Time Warner to sell CNN
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sources: Radhika Jones, New York Times books editorial director, to be named the next editor of Vanity Fair as soon as Monday — In a dramatic changing of the guard, Radhika Jones, the editorial director of the books department at The New York Times and a former top editor at Time magazine …
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House pledges to push for more media access after APEC summit lock-out — Only Fox News and White House photographer were allowed access to world leaders. — DANANG, Vietnam — Nearly all U.S. journalists covering President Donald Trump's appearance at a major economic summit …
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Liz Smith, who chronicled the lives of the rich, famous, and beautiful for over three decades in tabloid gossip columns, dies at 94 — Liz Smith, the longtime queen of New York's tabloid gossip columns, who for more than three decades chronicled little triumphs and trespasses in the soap-opera lives …
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Debra Birnbaum / Variety:
19 sources describe sexual harassment by Andrew Kreisberg, executive producer on The CW shows including Supergirl; Warner Bros. investigates, suspends Kreisberg — Warner Bros. TV Group has launched an investigation into allegations of inappropriate behavior by Andrew Kreisberg …
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
Muddy media reports about Facebook's test to fight revenge porn show the company needs more direct, on-the-record talks with journalists — A Facebook executive has been complaining about negative press coverage, yet the company declines to engage with journalists.
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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on the site's redesign, coming in Q1 2018 — At Web Summit this week in Lisbon, Portugal, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman talked about the site's upcoming redesign. Reddit launched in June 2005, and its look and feel has changed little over the past decade — certainly not at all in the past four or five years.
Rossalyn Warren / New York Times:
Facebook's efforts to tackle misinformation ignore anti-abortion pages, focusing on politics and Russia-backed election interference over science and health — Last year, just weeks before the election, an article from a site called Mad World News began circulating around Facebook.
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Ian Gibbs / MediaShift:
Survey: news consumers are becoming savvier, trust traditional media more than social media and online news, and trust print editions more than online versions — Trust is the topic that won't go away. On either side of the pond, leaders with very different temperaments are dealing …
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