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5:40 PM ET, January 23, 2018

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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Report: a 19-year-old Michigan man has been arrested after threatening to kill CNN employees, telling an operator: “Fake news, I'm coming to gun you all down”  —  A Michigan man was arrested after allegedly threatening to shoot and kill CNN employees, WGCL-TV reported Monday.
Bloomberg:
Twitter COO Anthony Noto has resigned to become SoFi CEO, starting March 1  —  Noto joined Twitter in 2014 after a career on Wall Street  —  SoFi has been searching for a new leader since September  —  Twitter Inc. Chief Operating Officer Anthony Noto has resigned to accept the role …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Tronc is in talks to syndicate some political coverage from Axios; it's unclear what the deal would mean for Tronc's DC bureau of about 16 journalists  —  Newspaper owner Tronc Inc. TRNC -0.14% is in talks with the news startup Axios to syndicate its coverage in the Los Angeles Times, people familiar with the discussions say.
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Variety:
In a provisional decision, UK regulators say 21st Century Fox's bid to take over Sky would not be in the public interest “due to media plurality concerns”  —  In a blow to 21st Century Fox, Britain's competition watchdog has provisionally concluded that the company's proposed takeover …
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Infowars host Alex Jones has partnered with NYT-bestselling author Neil Strauss to write a book, according to a proposal sent to several publishers  —  Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist, is working on a book with New York Times bestselling author Neil Strauss …
Discussion: @paulblu and thecut
Pavlena Todorova / Press Gazette:
UK government says Prime Minister Theresa May will authorize creation of the National Security Communications Unit, a rapid response unit to combat fake news  —  The Prime Minister is to launch a rapid response unit to battle the proliferation of “fake news” online, it has been announced.
Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed:
How Cambodia's prime minister and his staff exploit Facebook's rules to shut down criticism amid a Facebook experiment that reduces independent media's reach  —  Facebook was supposed to open up societies like Cambodia.  But it's doing just the opposite — with disastrous consequences for its fragile politics.
Discussion: The Verge
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Vine cofounder Don Hofmann details its successor, v2: aiming for summer debut, 6.5 second looping videos, better moderation, Teams for collaboration, no filters  —  First, don't call it “Vine Two”.  Details are starting to emerge about v2, the forthcoming video app built to replace Vine by its former co-founder Dom Hofmann.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Google Play now sells audiobooks, includes voice support for Google Assistant, launching in 45 markets and nine languages  —  Ever since Google ditched Android Market in 2012 and brought all its digital media content into a single marketplace, Google Play has emerged as the go-to place for apps …
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Democrats Rep. Schiff and Sen. Feinstein call for Twitter and Facebook to investigate if Russian troll accounts fueled the rise of the #releasethememo hashtag  —  ‘We are witnessing an ongoing attack by the Russian government’  —  Last week, right-wing circles were buzzing over a secret memo written …
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Sources: a group bidding for Weinstein Co, led by Maria Contreras-Sweet, has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire it, deal could close in 7-10 days  —  EXCLUSIVE: It looks like the employees, assets and projects of old The Weinstein Company will get a new lease on life.
Discussion: The Wrap and Variety
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists should rely less on Trump's agenda and tell first-person stories, oral histories, and theoretical what-ifs in addition to investigative pieces  —  Please pick us, please pick us, please pick us.  —  It says so much about our current media moment that the president would announce plans …
 
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