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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.
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Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Sources: CBS anchor John Dickerson is going to replace Charlie Rose as host of CBS This Morning, joining Norah O'Donnell and Gayle King — Rose was fired by CBS following allegations of sexual misconduct. — John Dickerson, anchor of the CBS Sunday news program “Face the Nation,” …
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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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Axios:
Memo: publisher Fred Ryan says Washington Post has more than doubled its digital subs since January, with digital ad revenue increasing, and teams expanding — The Washington Post will celebrate its second consecutive year as a profitable company by adding to its business and technology teams in 2018 …
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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 …
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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.
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TVNewser and @matthewfelling
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 …
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 …
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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Accelerated Mobile … and 9to5Google, more at Techmeme »
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Facebook to host fact-checking partners in early February to discuss how to help them be more effective and increase impact — Criticized for not sharing data, the social network is calling its fact-checkers together to discuss a more open approach. — After months of criticism …
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PEN America
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Telemundo to debut Noticias Telemundo, Mediodía, a midday national newscast on Jan. 22, will also livestream via mobile apps, its website, and social media — Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo said it would launch a new midday national newscast to its programming lineup as part …
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Forbes, PR Newswire and Broadcasting & Cable
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 — PSA: If you are a smaller news site that has suddenly discovered you've been removed from Google News, you are not alone — and a fix is coming from Google.
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