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12:05 PM ET, April 28, 2018

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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
NBC News faces skepticism that it can reform in-house sexual harassment amid more accusations against Matt Lauer and new accusations against Tom Brokaw  —  NBC News Chairman Andy Lack had barely slept.  Late the night before, he had walked from the art deco headquarters of NBC Universal …
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Tom Brokaw denies accusations of unwanted advances in an email sent to NBC News colleagues, claims accuser sought him out and calls her claims “sensational”  —  The revered NBC News anchor accused of unwanted advances pens a strenuous denial and defense of his legacy.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sources: Conservative site RedState fired much of its staff, letting go of Trump critics and those whose click rate was below contract  —  Salem Media, owner of the influential conservative outlet RedState, froze the site on Friday and dismissed many of its writers.
Alex Stedman / Variety:
Reporters covering Trump's White House describe an intense, corrosive atmosphere, as they face insults, personal attacks, and even death threats  —  On a chilly and gray Monday in D.C. a few weeks ago, President Trump was sitting on the South Lawn among a group of children during …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Sources say Milo Yiannopoulos laid off the staff of Milo Entertainment this month after losing the Mercers' backing last year and the death of Matthew Mellon  —  Running out of money and down on his luck, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos laid off the small staff of Milo Entertainment Inc. earlier …
The Montgomery Advertiser:
As a lynching memorial opens, Alabama's The Montgomery Advertiser admits its “shameful place” in history for past coverage of lynchings and racism  —  We were wrong.  —  On the day when people from across the globe come to our capital city to consider the sordid history of slavery …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Profile of Brent Bozell and his Media Research Center, which has chipped away at media credibility in the minds of conservatives for 30 years  —  Long before cries of ‘fake news,’ there was Brent Bozell and his Media Research Center.  —  You couldn't miss it.
Discussion: @dpotternews, CNNMoney and Politico
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Charter Communications lost 122K subscribers in Q1 vs 40K expected; shares were down as much as 16% during the day, the largest decline since 2009 bankruptcy  —  Charter Communications reports worsening cable TV subscribers losses, triggering selloff  —  The pace of pay-TV cord-cutting is quickening …
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Twitter confirms it is now pushing news links tweeted by your network into your home timeline and grouping tweets mentioning the link underneath it  —  Twitter is now pushing links tweeted by your network into your home timeline and grouping the tweets mentioning the link underneath it.
Discussion: Engadget and @jack
New York Times:
What The New York Times got right and wrong about AIDS and gay issues in the 1980s and 1990s, through the eyes of six LGBTQ staffers  —  The New York Times had a spotty record of covering the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s — and gay culture in general.  Times staffers reflect on the paper's past …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Good Media Group, parent company of Upworthy, appoints Charlie Wilkie as CEO, taps Liz Heron as editor-in-chief  —  Upworthy's parent company Good Media Group (GMG) is bringing in a new CEO and editor-in-chief to hone the company's strategic vision of promoting social good …
Discussion: @raju
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook now shrinks the size of fact-checked false news stories in News Feed and uses machine learning to help prioritize articles sent to fact-checkers  —  Tell someone not to do something and sometimes they just want to do it more.  That's what happened when Facebook put red flags on debunked fake news.
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