Mediagazer: The White House Correspondents Dinner: celebrity guests, scholarships and awards, the president's absence, and Michelle Wolf's cringeworthy jokes (Washington Post)

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The White House Correspondents Dinner: celebrity guests, scholarships and awards, the president's absence, and Michelle Wolf's cringeworthy jokes — Welcome to our coverage of the 2018 White House Correspondents' Association dinner. — The president may not be attending this year's event …

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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:

Annotated transcript of Michelle Wolf's caustic roasting of the Trump administration and the media at the White House Correspondents Dinner — Comedian Michelle Wolf roasted members of the Trump administration and the media at the annual White House correspondents' dinner on Saturday.

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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:

Joy Reid pivots from hacking claims during monologue, says she doesn't believe she wrote the blog posts and apologizes for her past comments about LGBTQ people — MSNBC anchor Joy Reid on Saturday morning offered a lengthy apology for a series of homophobic blog posts attributed to her …

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Stephanie Russell-Kraft / Columbia Journalism Review:

Religion News Service EIC Jerome Socolovsky fired, staffers say publisher Tom Gallagher has attempted to influence editorial, two staffers resigned in protest — Early in the morning on Monday, April 23, members and followers of the “God beat” awoke to upsetting news.

Philip Bump / Washington Post:

Quinnipiac University poll finds nearly 40% of Americans, 80% of Republicans agree with Trump's tweet that “fake news media is the enemy of the American people” — It has faded into the background noise by now, as does anything in politics these days that's older than about 12 hours.

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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.

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Mathias Döpfner / Business Insider:

In Q&A after receiving the Axel Springer award for 2018, Bezos says he would never interfere in The Washington Post's coverage because it would feel “gross” — Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, recently sat down with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos …

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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 …

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Ricardo Lopez / Variety:

20th Century Fox licenses Kino Industries app that will let users control storylines and characters for in-development Choose Your Own Adventure film — Twentieth Century Fox on Thursday announced that it's partnering with interactive film company Kino Industries to license an app …

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