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8:05 AM ET, April 18, 2018

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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Hannity appears to have used legal services of two other Trump-linked lawyers: Victoria Toensing and Jay Alan Sekulow, who both have appeared often on his show  —  Sean Hannity has had no shortage of lawyers.  In court on Monday, his name was disclosed as the third “mystery client” of Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
Ethicists raise questions about Sean Hannity's failure to disclose relationship with Michael Cohen, say being an “advocacy journalist” does not absolve him  —  Fox News host's failure to disclose his relationship with Trump attorney Michael Cohen puts his credibility on the line.
CNBC:
Sean Hannity is revealed as Michael Cohen's third client after a judge orders his name released
Facebook:
Ahead of GDPR, Facebook debuts enhanced privacy controls for all users globally, starting in EU, with more choices about ads, allowing face recognition, more  —  In recent weeks we've announced several steps to give people more control over their privacy and explain how we use data.
Neda Ulaby / NPR:
NPR newscaster Carl Kasell dies at 84 from complications of Alzheimer's disease after a lifelong career on air  —  Every weekday for more than three decades, his baritone steadied our mornings.  Even in moments of chaos and crisis, Carl Kasell brought unflappable authority to the news.
The Daily Beast:
Breitbart News gave Cambridge Analytica exclusive rights to resell its engagement data in 2016, former Cambridge Analytica employee tells UK Parliament  —  A former Cambridge Analytica director has claimed that the company had exclusive access to Breitbart's engagement data.
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Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Fallout from data collection scandal has not spread much beyond Facebook to include other platforms because it is hard to pinpoint harm from privacy violations  —  It is nearly four weeks since the Cambridge Analytica scandal erupted, and something surprising has happened.  —  Or rather, not happened.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to integrate recently acquired magazine app Texture into Apple News and debut its own premium news subscription service next year  —  Company integrating Texture purchase into Apple News offering  —  About 20 Texture staff were cut soon after Apple acquisition
Bob Papper / Radio Television Digital News Association:
Survey: in 2017 TV news employment surpassed total newspaper staff with 27K TV staff and 25K newspaper staff; ~20% of newly created positions focus on digital  —  Highlights  — The latest RTDNA/Hofstra University Survey has found that total local TV news employment has surpassed total …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
UK regulator Ofcom says it has monitored RT since Salisbury attack and is conducting seven investigations into its coverage, may revoke broadcasting license  —  Ofcom is examining instances where Kremlin-backed news channel potentially breached UK broadcast laws on impartiality
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Nate Silver and his politics and news site FiveThirtyEight will move to Disney-owned ABC News after five years with Disney's ESPN  —  Politics and news site Silver founded has been at ESPN for five years  —  Statistics guru Nate Silver is leaving ESPN, but he's staying under the Walt Disney Co. umbrella.
Glynnis MacNicol / Hollywood Reporter:
Generational turnover and the rise of millennials among NY editors leads to a culture clash: “There's frankly distrust on both sides,” says HuffPost's Polgreen  —  Ignore the rising millennial class at your own risk: the elite of New York editors and writers is undergoing …
Sebastian Murdock / Yahoo:
Parents of two Sandy Hook victims file lawsuits against Alex Jones and Infowars, claim they received death threats after he circulated conspiracy theories  —  Alex Jones has spent years claiming the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School where a shooter killed 20 small children and six adults was faked.
 
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Juliette Garside / The Guardian:
18 international news orgs, including The Guardian and Reuters, have joined forces to finish the last stories of investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
During Q1 earnings call on Tuesday, Netflix CCO Ted Sarandos dismissed a report that claimed the streaming service was launching a weekly news show
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BuzzFeed:
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NewsGuild of New York:
An overwhelming majority of The New Republic's staff join the NewsGuild of New York, becoming the latest newsroom to unionize
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