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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
A look at Hannity's real estate empire, including apartment complexes bought with HUD help, a fact Hannity didn't mention when interviewing Ben Carson last year — When Sean Hannity was named in court this week as a client of Donald Trump's embattled legal fixer Michael Cohen …
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Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
CNN creates a video, comparing Trump's talking points alongside those of Fox News personalities, showing he often repeats what they say almost verbatim — From Fox hosts' lips to the president's ears — President Donald Trump doesn't hide his feelings: He thinks Fox News is the “fairest” source of news.
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Scott Stedman:
Sean Hannity has routinely promoted a Georgia financial firm he co-owns via a shell company, even as the company was raising $13M in a round early this year — Hannity disguised his involvement via a shell company incorporated in Georgia — For months, Fox News's Sean Hannity …
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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
New York Times reporter Nicholas Confessore responds to criticism of Clinton coverage from colleague Amy Chozick, says decision to publish stories was correct — New York Times reporter Nicholas Confessore is hitting back against his colleague Amy Chozick — now engaging in a very public reckoning …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Amy Chozick, the main NYT Clinton campaign reporter, reflects on covering Podesta's stolen emails and later feeling she had become a Russian intelligence tool — Covering Hillary Clinton's campaign from before it started to the very last moment. — Things were already looking bad when …
Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' base salary declined from $900K to $850K in 2017, but his overall compensation package increased 5%, with $23.5M in stock options — Content chief Ted Sarandos saw his pay jump more than 18 percent to $22.4 million. — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings received …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
“Bernie TV”, or videos on Facebook Live and Twitter from Bernie Sanders' staff, lets the senator reach voters directly; his 2017 videos were viewed 800M+ times — For a brief moment in late October 2016, when Hillary Clinton was surfing on a six-point national lead over Donald Trump …
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Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Journalist Saher Shakir, who was sexually assaulted while on assignment for Vice, files lawsuit against the company claiming they blamed her for the attack — A freelancer at the counterculture media giant Vice who was sexually assaulted while on assignment filed a lawsuit Friday claiming …
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Ex-Sinclair reporter Suri Crowe says she was disciplined by company management for failing to apply “balance” to climate change stories — Sinclair Broadcast Group executives reprimanded and ultimately ousted a local news reporter who refused to seed doubt about man-made climate change and …
Jean Friedman-Rudovsky / Generocity Philly:
Resolve Philly, a hub for the city's newsrooms, announces a new year-long collaboration among 19 Philly outlets, Broke in Philly, covering poverty in the city — For the past decade, Philadelphia has been unable to shake its notorious distinction as the poorest big city in the U.S.
Tim Cushing / Techdirt:
12th District Court of Appeals strikes down Texas law that made disclosing “revenge porn” unlawful, ruling it violates the First Amendment — Texas attorney Mark Bennett — instrumental in getting an unconstitutional “peeping tom” law tossed in 2014 — has scored another win …
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