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How Trump helped National Enquirer's David Pecker meet the Saudi crown prince; Pecker's American Media recently published a 97-page glossy promoting the prince — In July, David J. Pecker, the chairman of the company that owns The National Enquirer, visited his old friend President Trump at the White House.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's crusade against Amazon has nothing to do with the post office or mom-and-pop shops and everything to do with his hatred of The Washington Post — President Trump is determined to find some way to hurt Amazon, reports Jonathan Swan. “He's obsessed with Amazon,” a source tells him.
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Charles Elmore / Palm Beach Post:
GateHouse Media acquires the Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily News for $49.25M, adding to its stable of more than 140 daily newspapers — One of the nation's busiest acquirers of newspapers and online media has agreed to buy The Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily News in a deal announced Wednesday at $49.25 million.
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Facebook outlines steps to protect elections: fight foreign influence, remove fake accounts, increase transparency of ads, and reduce spread of false news — Last fall Mark Zuckerberg announced the steps we're taking to protect elections from abuse and exploitation.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook begins letting fact-checking partners review photos and videos and also lets them flag stories before being prompted — Facebook has begun letting partners fact check photos and videos beyond news articles, and proactively review stories before Facebook asks them.
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Maxwell Strachan / HuffPost:
WSJ staffers say senior editor tried to pull a story about economic changes since '08 for political reasons; one ex-WSJ staffer said EIC Gerard Baker was editor — “This is censorship and it is beneath the standards of the Wall Street Journal," they wrote in a letter.
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Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
RT broadcast in Washington, DC, ends April 1 because RT's distributor MHz lost the lease on the broadcast license though RT blames the Justice Department — Russia's English language network last year took out dozens of cheeky ads across Washington D.C. to court viewers.
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Baltimore Sun:
Serial podcast subject Adnan Syed will get a new trial after Maryland appeals court upholds a ruling that overturned his murder conviction — Maryland's second-highest court has upheld a judge's ruling overturning the murder conviction of “Serial” podcast subject Adnan Syed.
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Aditi Sangal / Digiday:
Interview with Kara Swisher on Facebook's relationship with the media, whether Facebook would ever pay publishers for content, YouTube's value, and more — On this week's Digiday Podcast, Recode executive editor Kara Swisher said Facebook's relationship with the media has long been based on lip service.
Max A. Cherney / MarketWatch:
Baidu's streaming video service iQiyi falls 13.6% in Nasdaq debut, closing at $15.55, down from opening price of $18 — Baidu subsidiary valued at $12.7 billion in second-largest U.S. IPO for Chinese company; shares fall 14% in debut — With more subscribers than Netflix Inc. …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Express Newspapers report a mean gender pay gap of 17% favoring men, lower than new owner Trinity Mirror's 18% pay gap. — Express Newspapers, which publishes the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star on Sunday, has reported a mean gender pay gap of 17 per cent favouring men.
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Scott Rosenberg / Axios:
Traditional media outlets have old grudges against tech giants, and that history now turbocharges critical coverage of Facebook's misuse of user data — Facebook and Google execs privately complain about the barrage of critical coverage they face, charging that media companies …
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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Social media companies' problems are caused by their revenue models; solutions are user-run collectives, a federated social network, an automatic profile purge — I don't need to tell you that something is wrong with social media. — You've probably experienced it yourself.
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