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12:05 PM ET, January 9, 2018

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Ted Johnson / Variety:
NBC deletes tweet that appeared to endorse Oprah Winfrey as a 2020 presidential candidate, says it was posted by a third-party agency for NBC Entertainment  —  WASHINGTON — NBC removed a tweet sent from the network's main account that appeared to endorse the idea of an Oprah Winfrey candidacy in 2020.
Burlington Free Press:
Gannett fires Burlington Free Press editor after tweets about VT's proposal to add a third gender to driver licenses, saying he violated social media guidelines  —  Denis Finley, editor of the Burlington Free Press, left the company Monday evening.  —  Finley became embroiled …
Sebastian Gorka / The Hill:
Former White House advisor Sebastian Gorka says he was instructed to speak to Michael Wolff but declined to do so, chides ex-colleagues for talking to press  —  When I worked in the White House, I was viewed as strange by many of my colleagues on Sean Spicer's press team.
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Associated Press:
Memo: Macmillan CEO John Sargent calls Trump's attempt to halt release of Wolff book “flagrantly unconstitutional”, says company will respond to legal letter
HeraldScotland:
UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission will write to the BBC over unlawful discrimination claims made by ex-China Editor Carrie Gracie  —  The Equality and Human Rights Commission will write to the BBC over claims of unlawful pay discrimination made by former China editor Carrie Gracie.
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Graham Ruddick / The Guardian:
UK's new Culture Secretary Matt Hancock has criticized the BBC for paying some male employees more than what British ambassadors earn  —  Matt Hancock says corporation should raise pay of female staff but also consider pay of men ‘who are paid far more than equivalent public servants’
Discussion: @monaeltahawy
CBS News:
John Dickerson has been named as the new co-anchor of CBS This Morning, alongside Norah O'Donnell and Gayle King, replacing Charlie Rose  —  CBS News anchor John Dickerson has been named co-host of “CBS This Morning,” joining Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell on the network's critically acclaimed and award-winning broadcast.
CNN:
CNN promotes Jim Acosta to chief White House correspondent; Pamela Brown joins the White House beat  —  CNN has announced a number of new assignments for its White House and Washington-based correspondents, timed to the start of President Trump's second year in office.
Committee to Protect Journalists:
In response to Trump's “fake news” awards, the Committee to Protect Journalists announces the Press Oppressors awards  —  Amid the public discourse of fake news and President Trump's announcement via Twitter about his planned “fake news” awards ceremony, CPJ is recognizing world leaders …
Discussion: Mediaite and Mashable
Janko Rottgers / Variety:
Intel launches Intel Studios, an LA-based facility for the production of virtual and augmented reality video and other types of content  —  Intel wants to help Hollywood embrace the next generation of immersive media: The chip maker officially announced the opening of a Los Angeles-based …
Discussion: VentureBeat
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Ex-Hulu SVP Jenny Wall is joining Brooklyn-based podcast network Gimlet Media as its first chief marketing officer  —  Entertainment-marketing vet Jenny Wall is jumping into the burgeoning world of podcasting.  —  Wall, a former Hulu and Netflix marketing executive, has joined Gimlet Media …
Michelle Robbins / Search Engine Land:
Google announces that Google AMP cache will display publisher URLs and drop the Google AMP URL prefix in search results, starting in the second half of 2018  —  Google announced today that it is well on its way to solving one of the most annoying (to publishers) “features” of AMP …
 
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Facebook to host fact-checking partners in early February to discuss how to help them be more effective and increase impact
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Google News engineering director says an unintentional tech issue resulted in some sites being delisted over the past few days and is working on a fix
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Right-wing writer Chuck Johnson files lawsuit in California against Twitter claiming he was banned for his political views in violation of free speech rights
Discussion: The Hill and Mashable
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Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company:
Twitter has quietly started verifying users again, after pausing verifications in November alongside a promise of a new authentication and verification program
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
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