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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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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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Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Claims by Joy Reid's cybersecurity expert that her old blog was compromised fall apart when compared with archived versions
Claims by Joy Reid's cybersecurity expert that her old blog was compromised fall apart when compared with archived versions
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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 …
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.
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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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@pbump and Pew Research Center
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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@timalberta and @dpotternews
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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@bevandufty, Jeremy Peters, @tmagazine, @jwpetersnyt, @1demerith, @jkirchick, @kurtsoller and @klerner
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.
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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The Guardian, Polygon, Gizmodo, The A.V. Club, San Francisco Chronicle and The Verge
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 …
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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.
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